Hey, welcome aboard.  One tiny tidbit.

Be a fan of the characters, and say what the truth demands are precepts.  So if the rogue has no chance to disarm a trap - it's not a roll.  If the bard knows what the magic is he doesn't need to spout lore.  But remember, if you try and fail ... you get an xp! Lessens the sting a bit ^_~ Your rogue should be leveling up there shortly!

Races and Alignment. 
Firstly: The race choices are iconic.  Yes it takes a bit away from choice, but this game is a love letter to older editions.  You can probably talk to your GM about a different race if it's that important to you, ultimately it only gives a minor move that usually exemplifies the relationship between that race and class.  I certainly see your point, but I think the usability of the sheets and the speed of creation are good things to weight against it.

Secondly: Alignment.  So DW isn't exactly like old D&D.  Alignment isn't the hard axis that it was in old editions.  Ie: the alignment helps with outlook, but does not dictate actions.  If you have an evil wizard they don't cackle maniacally and talk about world domination, and keep having giant parties with demons and devils.  They have to spread fear and terror to their opponents.  You can serve your king loyally and well, and still do this just fine.  This distinction was a bit easier to see when they had xp structured more like SotY/Lady Blackbird keys - but the impetus is there.  If you act a certain way, you get xp.  Don't let your old-game traditions lock you into a mindset of 'evil' means 'comically evil in all things'.  It's not mandated by the rules anywhere.

I've got 3 local stores and a few groups I've infected.  I'm in! :D

@StuartM: Sort of 'everyone gets cleave'.  I really dig it.  Particularly because the Warrior is more likely to carry 1 piercing, making them a true terror to all goblin kind.  Wow, no feats/moves required, baked right in, doesn't matter in big fights against dragons and the like, great for mooks ... ... ... ... I'm really starting to like this idea.  I think I'll use it and see how it goes.

No actually, I believe the ranger is a bit stronger than he should be.  

Aaaaaaaaand the math balances out in 2.3.

If anything I'd suggest Viper Strike (Pssssst, it's still called dual wield in the book-text and spreads) be used with bows too (When you take a moment to aim before firing a shot...).

Preamble

Once a month there's a local gather of gamers in the area called GASP (Gaming Association of South Western Pennsylvania).  Fifty to a hundred gamers descend together to play pickup board games, RPGs and share food, drink and stories.  It hasn't gathered in 2 months while moving localles, so all of us were excited to re-gather and play.

In interesting side-stories, I met a guy who had an absolutely outrageously pretty hand-bound leather copy of dungeon world (Dan Cetorelli).  Dyed leather cover, the 4 core class symbols on the edges, a carved dungeon map, aged and yellowed pages - it was really nice.

So apparently I must be making a name for myself as a story gamer, since the organizer for the RPG section of the Game Day dragged a couple people over to introduce them to me for potential games.  Of course, I had a handy copy of the sheets to show to folks, and it was decided that people wanted to try out DW.  We only had a little under 2 hours to play, so we jumped in and got started.

Setup

Everyone picked characters.  Our roster was:

Halwyr, the Elven Wizard
Wesley Human Cleric of Helfereth
Pendrel, the Elven Bard
Celion, the Elven Ranger with a mule named Bill

The game went a little differently right off the bat.  Usually I run high fantasy, but as the dragon story shows, it's grim and reminiscent of early editions.  The cleric picked the name Wesley (he stated it as a joke, while laughing) and Pendrel the bard asked him what he wielded as a weapon.  It was a warhammer, so he dubbed him Wesley ... the Crusher. Now I actually haven't seen DW run before a little more over-the-top, heroic or Gonzo, but when you run a game at a game con who you get in your session is kind of arbitrary, and I decided to run with what the group was doing and see how the game held up.

World establishment:  We found out Wesley was the Human Servant of Helfereth, who was the god of Light, Fire and War.  He was his strong arm on the mortal plane, and a sworn vanquisher of the undead.  Yeah, their front line fighter was the cleric (it worked out way better than I expected).

We found out that most elves lived only 30 years (contrary to standard tropes) and our bard was elderly at 29 and a half, and this was his last hurrah before the end.  We also found out that Elven Wizards were immortal, stealing the power from the other elves (where their magic comes from) and living forever once they accumulated enough power.

We found out that the Ranger Celion and his dancing ferocious mule Bill (MVP for the night) were guiding Wesley to Shadow Vale which had been created at the dawn of time  when Helfereth had killed the god of Death and Darkness, and that undead appeared wherever his blood had hit the earth, and the valley was created from the remnants of the dead god.

Game

So game begins.  The first fight was against a number of zombie goblins and orcs, and an undead ogre.  Wesley charged forward, and Pendrell riding on bill egged him on, blending hymns to Helfreth with stories of bravery (adding to his damage).  Wesley didn't pay attention to the well-being of his friends, so he charged ahead of the group, and the rest of the party got swarmed.  While the wizards spells, the rangers arrows and Bill's mighty hooves fought off the clawing undead, Wesley went toe-to-toe with the Ogre, whose knee he shattered.

The Ogre brought to his knees was in range for a sudden charge from bill, and a well placed headshot from the ranger.  Pressing on, they roleplayed dealing with the priests zealotry as opposed to the  rangers more down-to-earth approach to problems.  Pendrell negotiated a peace between the two, and Halwyr identified the ogre's club, finding it to a mystic weapon with the Messy tag, capable of shattering bones in addition to any damage that it does, but it is tied to the power of Havrok the god of death which she conceals from the rest of the group.

The party presses on, Ranger first.  As they walk through a series of stone spikes with corpses chained to the top, the ghostly spirits exit and assault the ranger.  He sends Bill off with the bard to safety, and bets that fire which purifies will work even on the ghostly.  He suffers their chilling touch, while wrapping his arrows in cloth and setting them on fire.

The bard huddles with the Bill,  and both are protected by the ferocious mystic bolts of Halwyr, while Wesley charges forward to aid Celion.  They group is victorious, and Havrok uses their victory to call down the notice of his god and cleanse and sanctify the area long enough for them to rest.  I ran the 'end of game' move here to show the how XP worked, and everyone leveled up once

At this point we were running short on time, so I had them simulate getting to the final confrontation by undertaking a Perilous Journey (which turned out to work pretty well).  We creep up on the evil altar of the god Havrok contained deep inside the bone structure of his ribcage.  Several named opponents were there (including Sheldor, the morningstar wielding champion of the evil god). 

The ranger and bill sneak up, using a sneaky headshot to take out one of the enemies.  Sheldors arch-lich compatriot casts withering spells at the party, whih the mage blocks (interetingly she rolls a 7-9 but only takes 1 damage, considering the over the top description of the enemy spell everyone agreed that this was a fantastic representation of the block).

Wesley brings a crushing strike down upon sheldor, rolling a 12+2 assist to hit (bard), and max on his 4 damage dice (d6, +d4 magic weapon, +2d4 bard boost), and the Wizard uses her ritual ability to cleanse the area, finishing the story for the night.

Review

The game was (as I mentioned) alot more fast, loose and over-the-top than the usual DW sessions I run, but it held up well.  Moreover, when our cleric decided to be a front-line fighter I winced.  But he not only held up well, but showed me a build pattern using sacrifice and empowering to add magic weapons to his strikes, becoming quite the combatant.  Wasn't a combo I had considered, but it's pretty awesome because the cleric-as-a-fighter is a D&D trope that while i don't necessarily care for, didn't seem very well supported, but wow did it work out great.

The bard is really strong.  Their healing is constant (meaning it never goes away or fades) but the ability to heal enemies on a jump is interesting.  Moreover, the additional damage is awesome, but I think their assist ability is potentially the most deadly.  Not broken strong, but strong.  I'm hoping to see the class again in play to compare it to others.  Overall it was a great addition to the party.

The wizard was still one of my favorites, and I like how Ritual and Arcane Shield were used here.

The ranger was pretty strong.  The extra damage isn't necessarily too out of line at higher levels, but at lower levels it gave some folks a sense of sticker shock.  I ran some math on it vs the original driver that the build seems based on and came up with some math that I'll share in a future post.

In terms of the game, how would you handle something like 'multishot'?  Namely 3 goblins were attacking Bill the mule.  If the ranger was trying to save him by rapid-firing some arrows to try and scatter the assaulters.  He hit, and killed one, but everyone wanted to know since you guys have mob rules against a PC if there was an attack-a-mob-back series of rules for the PCs in return (attacking 3 goblins? roll 3dDamage*w?)

Getting ready to run a couple games at Games on Demand at Origins, and this has already been requested :)

Hey! :) You made it!

Aeon here was in my game Sat.  I didn't get a chance to post the full AP report (I'm a couple behind, watch for it in another thread) but great to see you pop up and that you had a great time.

Some really salient points in the writeup.

Assassins, Barbarians, Druids, Monks, Gunslingers, Acrobats, Cavaliers, Swordsingers, Shieldmaidens, Adepts, Warlocks, Alchemists and on and on and on are all definitely potential future guild-releases or the like but part of why we made DW a CCBY licensed game is so that people could show us their own take on the classes that make up their vision of the game!  Trust me, though, we have a few of our favourites and more than one way of presenting them.

Woohoo! HE SAID DRUID! (Also Barbarian, Assassin, Shieldmaiden, Warlock and Alchemist!) :)

So are you guys planning on doing like a monthly/quarterly release thing?  Maybe have submissions, and include the best fan playbooks/fiction/campaign-dangers or whatnot? (or if I use a fancy game-design term 'continuing content')