So, I'm sort of kicking around ideas right now, working on a Front.  Right now, I've got the Main Danger of the front, the partially-embodied spirit of a great wyrm/dragon god/scary elder evil.  I know what his motivation is and the sort of things he plans to do.  What I don't have are other Dangers to round out the story yet.

The idea, so far is that the Evil Dragon was incompletely resurrected by a spell interrupted by the players.  Now a weak shade of its true glory, it has to fly around putting itself back together, consuming arcane power (I'm thinking one of the next few adventures will be in a haunted keep where he's eating ghosts to refuel his ecto-batteries), finding its Name and maybe its Heart or stuff like that.  Along the way, it will be summoning weaker dragons and drake-like beings to itself - probably getting a lizardman army or a horde of orcs (probably not orcs, too cliche) or something.  Anyways, I'm fine with that....  I need other Dangers to throw  into the mix, other actors to complicate the story.

I started off with some notes about a group of Dragon Hunter Knights who seek power through dragon-eating, but I found it sort of silly (and am only NOW just seeing the Skyrim in it, hilarious).  Beyond that, I'm drawing a blank, so I thought maybe if I toss it out into the crowd, somebody might, at least, spark my own brain juices.

Or maybe I should just wait until I'm not so tired... either way.

Anyway, here's what i have of the Front so far:

THE RETURN OF THE STORM WYRM

DANGER
THE NAMELESS DRAKE (LORD OF THE UNDEAD/DRAGON)
Intent:  to seek true immortality
GRIM PORTENTS

• The Lesser Flights converge
• The Drake consumes power
• The Name is uncovered
• The Drake returns to Life

Impending Doom:  Destruction

It's gotten me thinking about the setting and I'm having quite a bit of fun with it, now.  I'm trying to avoid doing any planning, this is my very first Dungeon World scenario and I THINK I'll have a player whose only ever played one bad session of one RPG before (and it was DnD 4e), so I'm trying to go by the book and just play to discover.  But I sort of gave my players the broad strokes and listed off the playbooks, because they seemed interested, and now they're all choosing and starting to ask for things, so I'm doing a little more thinking than I had planned to.

So, instead of your usual gnomes, these gnomes have an elemental flair - their hearts are actually jewels infused with elemental energy.  Stormheart Gnomes, Blazeheart Gnomes, Deepheart Gnomes, etc.  With two little sentences I have a whole race of elementally-infused, magically interesting little folk who fit the gnome roles my players are expecting while still letting me twist their expectations.

Plus, I get to give a little wink over to Treasure Trolls, and that's never a bad thing ;)

From an unfinished section of the doc:

Gear (Non-Artifact)
Ground Urdoroot [dangerous, 3-uses, 1-weight]: This herbal formula can greatly enhance the imbiber’s focus. One use provides +1-focus (even above the users maximum), but there’s a chance they’ll suffer from it. Roll 3d6; if the result is greater than their constitution, they take 1d6 damage and a mental debility of the GM’s choice.
Fine Incense: When this incense burns, the minds of anyone who can smell it begin to wander and they lose 1-focus (if they had any). Anyone who relaxes and opens their minds while in the haze of this incense gains +1 to spout lore or parley, but takes -1 to all other rolls.
Psion’s Mandala [3-uses, 1-weight]: This finely crafted talisman contains many maze-like patterns that help focus the mind. When someone rolls to gain focus, they may study a new portion of the pattern and spend 1-use. If they do, they take +1 to the roll.
Purified Urdoroot [dangerous, applied]: When purified with bizarre rituals, ground urdoroot becomes intensely dangerous to those with focus. A person with focus instantly loses their focus and takes 1d6 damage; non-focused targets are unaffected, beyond perhaps a slight headache.

Heh, yeah.  We sunk quite a bit of time into it.  We worked up a few classes, the start of a few Advanced Classes, two new psionic Monster Settings, a dozen-or-so of new monsters, and a few dozen psionic items.  I should really go back to that....

If you use anything from the Psion Playbook, please let me know how it goes.  I'd love to hear your experiences/problems.

It's not about balance, it's... 16d10 in a single roll!

Sounds like Exalted World to me :D

The Bard move "It Goes to Eleven" is hard to interpret.  The 10+ effect seems like it could be tactically useful to use on either allies or enemies.  However the written consequence for rolling a 7-9 "but then takes +1d4 damage ongoing as the music invigorates it" is extremely unclear.  Who is being invigorated, and taking more damage because of this invigoration?  If this means your enemies are taking more damage, why is rolling in the 7-9 range a more desirable outcome than rolling higher?

"Takes" in Dungeon*World has a specific definition.  Like in "Take 1 Hold" or "Take 1 Forward", when someone Takes something, they gain an invisible, metaphorical game token which is then used.  In this instance the author's intentions seem to be that on a 7-9, when you target and confuse one of your foes, that foe is then invigorated, supercharged, and gains a +1d4 damage Ongoing.  They do not "take" a certain a mount of damage in the usual RPG parlance, incurring 1d4 hp worth of wounds wounds; instead, they get to add +1d4 to their damage Ongoing.  Your Hit succeeds and confuses your foe, but the trade off is that your foe is now more powerful.

Now, honestly, the application of this power to Allies seems to have been outside of the authors' expected actions and it's not exactly clear if this is supposed to be an intentional buff when used on your friends.

I'm pretty sure the app is just the "Red Box", the introductory 'Beta' version of the game.  It's a self-contained, fully playable game that you can spend $5 on and play for ever (or, at least, for ever in five-level bursts).  If you're expecting support, do not purchase it - the game itself should be out soon (*ahem*).

It's not going to be updated because it's not an app of the full game, just the Red Box version of the game.  Compared to the full game it is smaller, and more primitive.  It is the australopithecus afarensis version of Dungeon*World.  The current beta is the Neanderthal version, much further along on the evolutionary ladder and much much more robust....  then we'll get the prerelease Cro Magnon, followed by the full-blown, Anatomically Modern release version!

World of Dungeons is a lemur.  There is no Gigantopithecus in this metaphor, though if Antisinecurist and I can ever put together this Psionics book it might be bloated and massive enough to be given that name ;)

Building off of my other thread.

DW suggests starting your game in media res, placing your characters in a situation and asking them "What do you do?"

Give me some ideas of one-line adventure starters that you've come up with.