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Title: If I ran DW this weekend, what should I use?
Post by: Steve Hickey on February 27, 2012, 11:28:07 PM

I'm thinking about running Dungeon World at a house-con this weekend, but I'm a little adrift with the options. What would you recommend?

- Using the Hack with its playbooks (and making up some principles and DM moves of my own)

- Using the Hack and printing out the Beta playbooks?

- Buying the Basic DW .pdf?

- something else I'm unaware of?

$5 is not a huge deal, but I'm interested in whether I can get by without spending money, and how significantly the experience of running DW is improved by using Basic.

Title: Re: If I ran DW this weekend, what should I use?
Post by: mease19 on February 28, 2012, 12:11:28 AM

Use the hack to play an online game with players one evening so you can teach the basics using the basic playbooks.  Write it up and post it online, join the adventurers guild, get the beta rules for free, use the beta rules for your face to face session.

Or just pay the $5 for the basic version, it's cheap and puts money in good hands...

Title: Re: If I ran DW this weekend, what should I use?
Post by: Steve Hickey on February 28, 2012, 03:38:53 PM

Thanks mease19. The hack plus basic playbooks approach sounds good to me. I've studied them a little bit and done a little of looking around the threads here, so it should be do-able.

Looking forward to it!