I haven't tried this, but I think my players would really miss the XP they get when they roll a 6 or less.  It takes a lot of the sting out of failing.

John

Adventures on Dungeon Planet may also be of interest:

http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/johnstone-metzger/adventures-on-dungeon-planet-pdf/ebook/product-20948310.html

John

Sounds like a wonderful first session!  I especially liked that Uri's player would rather get stabbed in the back than lose his book satchel!  Hope you get to play more DW this year (something I hope for myself as well).

John

Ran the game this past Saturday, and had a great time.  Had 6 players, only one of whom was at all familiar with DW (or *World games).  I was a little surprised at how smoothly it went using just the dungeon starter (Frozen South), although one player complained that she felt that they were "floundering" a little and didn't have a lot of direction.  I ended  up working about half of the impressions into the game.  Spent most of the 3 hour session on the journey through the frozen wastes to the lost city of Endria, and finished with a climactic battle against a horrible furry giant squid in which the dwarven fighter finally go to shine by smashing the thing's brains out with her blood-stained hammer.

The players seemed to enjoy the game, and were intrigued by the "mark XP on a miss" rule (several of the players ended the session with 7 XP, so if we had finished the adventure, they would have leveled up).  I'd like to get a longer-term game going to see how the system works for a campaign.

John

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'm pretty comfortable improving based on questions and running from just the dungeon starter, but wanted to see if I was missing something big that I should be doing to prep.

John

Here's an Amazon list of books mentioned in the famous Appendix N of the AD&D DMG.

http://www.amazon.com/Gygaxs-amp-Appendix-Inspirational-Educational/lm/R3A9UPKOXVI0I1

John

Sweet!

First, a huge  thanks to everyone involved in putting this together.  I found it really helpful and especially loved all of the examples drawn from actual play.

A couple of observations:

1) In the example Front, you say that the island was only settled by Humans about 5 years ago (and the implication seems to be that only Lizardmen lived there before that time), but in the questions to ask players, one of them refers to a character having been born and raised on the island.

2) In the extended example of play, you refer to stone-carved frescoes.  I know this is  a little nit-picky, but technically frescoes are paintings done in wet plaster.  Maybe you were going for something like a bas-relief?

But, yeah, extremely useful stuff and may help push my group over the line into playing DW as our next game.

John