So Dungeon World. It's a lot of fun. Basically if you can have a conversation with another person you can play. Right now our two heroes fled the undead infested, ruined city for the relative safety of town. Our game starts in 1.5 hours!

Observations:
Play flows nicely back and forth between me and the other players. This is good. Sometimes we don't fill out the fiction as much as we should and jump straight into the mechanics. Gotta slow down a little here. It's cool watching the world unfold as we play. I didn't have a particular map in mind. As I ask questions and the players Spout Lore and Discern Realities we add stuff to the map and the fictional space.

Transition from Moldvay:
It's very smooth but DW Principles for the GM to follow conflict with Moldvay's Principles. Several things drop out fast. You lose the mapper and caller. There isn't a real need to map in DW. I think you could arrange it so this matters. I am slowly hacking together a DW-hack based on Moldvay. I want to see if this actually works without messing up the Flow.

In some ways Burning Wheel and Dungeon World share similar design philosophers with regards to dungeons. Get to the interesting stuff, skip the mapping.

I invoked a Moldvay Principle of relating information about the world and dungeons impartially (sometimes Drugar makes me laugh, with the bad dice rolls and all).

Sage did the Principles of Moldvay here:
http://www.latorra.org/2010/09/28/the-principles-of-moldvay-dd/
So I am going to use those as a starting point for hacking.

Finally getting around to putting together the Moldvay DW hack.
The elf class is here but the spells aren't yet.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1suXvkjCqXPKUY8aowx4HlnqIhiPVxxgr8KR4CWwz6K8/edit

Wow, time slipped away from me. Silly school.

Going to wrap up this report before we play again today!

Limnar distracts the boar with a round of magic missiles as Drugar scrambles for her hammer. The boar bears down on Limnar as the Drugar lightly taps (1 HP) the beast on the butt with her hammer. Limnar elegantly tries to get out of the way and is knocked to ground instead. The boar rears up to crush Limnar with it's massive bulk. At the last minute Limanr pulls out the Floating Disk spell and hides underneath it. The boar weighs more then the disk can talk and the spell starts to fail. Drugar runs up close and swings her hammer at the boars head. A glancing blow peels off some rotting cheek, exposing corrupt bone ans sinew. The boars fetid tusk swings into Drugar rending maille, dwarf flesh, and bone. Maggots and vomit spill onto Limnar's failing disk.

*Note - early on in the encounter I describe the grass rotting around the boar and the earth actually roiling and putrefying underneath the boars feet.

Limnar attempt to fling the disk one way while he rolls the other to avoid the boar. L rolled a 2 on his Defy Danger. I laughed. Limnar escapes from under the disk but the boar rolls over on the Drugar pinning her and snapping tendons.

Drugar wails on the boar with her hammer at close range while Limnar blasts it again with magic missile. The boar recovers, kicks Drugar before heading towards Limnar.

Limnar volleys another magic missile at the boar blast holes in it and Drugar flings her hammer before collapsing to the ground. Drugar's player B rolled a 2, more giggling from me.

The hammer hits home and goes through the collapsing rib cage of the boar, deep into the heart.

Drugar bleeds for awhile and complains of pain. Limnar dusts himself off and looks for a place to nap.

The boar rots away leaving behind skin, bone, a gooey hammmer, and a handful of strange gold coins.

The coins resemble the coins found at the Library which come from the city they are heading to. The hammer, mightily artifact of Drugar's clan now has the tag +tainted.
Oh and Drugar grabbed one of the tusks to use as a weapon.

We leave our heroes wounded, tired, gross, and a few hours from the city.

The players (sorry no full names for them):
B: Ladyfriend, played primitive DW with me, ran Murderous Ghost, and played Moldvay. Speaks AW and DW. In our Moldvay game her dwarf's second weapon was "I Spout Lore". Really, it's on her sheet

R: Fellow grad student, played 4th edition D&D

L: Fellow grad student, only played CRPGs.

B is playing a Dwarf fighter (using a hacked playbook) out to revenge the slaughter of her clan.

R is playing a Thief (mostly straight up DW thief) with mixed motives

L is the elf (seriously hacked playbook) who is the laziest elf ever. Only cares for amassing wealth and sorcery so he can retire ASAP.

So our Moldvay Wednesday group made the transition to DW yesterday. Throughout our Moldvay game I drifted the skill checks to DW still moves pretty seamlessly. I was explicit about what I was doing so no sneakiness on my part.

One thing that made the transition easier was to rewrite the playbooks. Basically we have two new playbooks. One for the Dwarf and one for the Elf. The Thief more or less stayed the same. I'll get my crudely made up playbooks posted in the next few days (also I have a DW tutorial I am still typesetting, oh and some ODD playbooks).

The pitch is still the same. A vast underexplored wilderness sprawled out before the characters. Ruins dotting the landscape. The focus of the game is on exploration and survival.

Up next:
The players and their characters
My questions, their answers

 

How are megadungeons handled in Apoc D&D any different then the shorter dungeons?

Maybe this might need a new thread?

ara

I am messing around with Tony's hack to create something. I don't know really what but here is one of the moves I added in the character creation section.

Get Your Gear (charisma)
   This is not really a move. Well it’s kinda of a move. You only do this once at the beginning during character creation. 
   1. If you want starting gear other then the clothes on your back make this move
Roll 7-9
Backpack
Belt pouch
Bedroll
Torches (refill)
Flint/Steel
Chalk (refill)
String
Crowbar (hand)
Waterskin (refill)
1-Ration (refill)
1-Barter   

Roll 10+
Backpack
Belt pouch
Bedroll
Torches (refill)
Oil Flasks (refill)
Flint/Steel
Chalk (refill)
String
Crowbar (hand)
Rope
Waterskin (refill)
Tool kit (refill applied)
1-Ration (refill)
2-Barter

On a miss you are boned. You get what you want (crap listed on 7-9) but all your gear and crap gets the additional tag +poor quality.


Err I couldn't remember how to do the table thing in html sorry.

ara