Anyone have any good advice for drowning or custom moves?

Saving Throw doesn't seem to work very well, so I used Defy Danger which is obvious, but on a failure drowning immediately seemed weird.

So, I had them take damage. Which also seemed weird. Perhaps I should have followed up with impending doom, like, "You start to feel your lungs fill with water..." and, then had them roll another Defy Danger? I don't know.

Just looking for general advice / ideas / custom moves. I foresee more swimming occurring and I'd like to be better prepared. :)

I changed the highlighted stats yesterday to be:

The person you have the highest Bond with highlights one.

Then, you highlight one.

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I found the XP gained improved a lot. This may be something you might try.

It seemed to work better for DW too than me as the GM highlighting one of the stats. The player actually gets to say, "What do I want to see my character doing?" Maybe they're going into town (Cha might be more important!), or know they're going to face some high level threats (Con baby!).

A lot of times it was the highest stat, but surprisingly, a couple players chose something else. Our Paladin with a +2 Cha decided to highlight his +0 Str, and his high Bond player chose his +1 Con.

It worked out pretty well, and took a lot of burden off me as the GM to make sure I was being "fair" about it.

That's a good point about anti-conflict, which can sometimes be +boring.

I'm digging the slow pace of the next release. Gives us time to soak in the latest.

Gotta say I am itching see what's to come though.

What's the link to your PbP game, Michael? I'd like to read along if possible.

We're playing on Snail's Pace. Just click the "Dungeon World" tag to sort through our game. Octoscott is currently DMing and he's doing a swell job.

There's also some really neat Apocalypse World games going on there.

So, wait, you're crawling over to him and slashing at his ankles? Um, yes, Defy Danger.

What about range? Slashing someone with a sword while standing toe-to-toe with them makes sense. Slashing at someone while on your back or belly...? Not so much. Maybe if you had a spear you could thrust at them from that far away. Maybe kicking at him to keep him at bay (watch some MMA and you'll see what I mean). Sure. But, your reach is severely limited on your back.

When you switch playbooks, you keep everything essential to your character. If that happens to be some gunlugger stuff, so be it. ;)

Michael, when the Savvyhead uses his workshop in your AW game, have you already pre-planned what you intend to have happen?

I don't see any more need to prep for workshop-style looting than the current move. I could prep encounters using the current rules and know that they'll loot each lair and corpse, so prep up items that I can throw their way if they get a hit on Loot.

For inspiration, that's why I suggested mini-moves though, similar to the list in the Savvyhead workshop rules, but maybe for the MC's eyes only. Moves are made in reaction to play, not as prep. Loot isn't a "front" (but, maybe it could be I suppose).

Hell, you could do up tri-folds with the Thief having a list of the MC's "treasure moves" similar to a Brainer having a list of fronts. That'd be neat.

I definitely agree about the show you something useful and interesting bit. That's what I want from treasure. Gems and Gold, sure. But, also interesting magical items and useful tidbits of information that lead me further into the game world.

Some awesome thoughts here. Lots of ways to move forward.