Con-Quest 3, Saturday 14/04, Assembly Rooms, Derby, UK

http://www.con-quest.co.uk/ is the website, and I'm seriously considering running a DW game to show it off, and hopefully meet some new players in my area.

So, any advice?

Most importantly, what scenario should I run?

D.

For a one off, I like to collect monster, treasure and location ideas from the players at the table, jot down a few more specific ideas, pieces of colour and stats while they make their characters, then wing most of it. If you get keen you probably have time to write a front in that time, but I don't usually bother: I'm aiming for a simple, action-packed game that doesn't have any ambitions beyond the 2-4 hours available.

If any of that sounds helpful, I can expand.

Consider one of the three Dungeon Starters that I posted to the forum.  
The Shallow Sea
The Goblin Hole
Black Oak Ridge
They give you a lot of material to work with but are also really, really open so that you and the players will still be doing a lot of world building. 

I found Marshall's excellent Dungeon Starters most useful when I thought of them as the environment in which the adventure takes place rather than the adventure themselves. So I'd read through those, pick one, write a bad guy/evil scheme/front and plop it into that Starter.

I heart The Shallow Sea; it's probably my favourite Dungeon World "supplement" so far.

I have those three Dungeon Starters already printed out in the back of my DW folder, so I'll read them again in this new light. Thank you both!

They are definitely part adventure and part setting.  I made them before the basic rules came out and I definitely had the first sessions from Apocalypse World in mind when I made them.  I'm happy that it turned out you can use them either as a setting with your own adversary/fronts or as a starting situation and details that you then use when playing to find out what the fronts will be.

For your consideration, I also propose module prepared by me: Rahasia based on the classic D&D adventure. It has a bit more of a plot than excellent Marshall's modules, so it depends on what you prefer. I quite successfully ran this module twice during a gaming convention in Warsaw, Poland, where I live. Both times it took about 3 hours to play (plus preparing characters for players and explaining rules).

The first two adventures out of Within the Devil's Reach are great for con games. If your not a backer on the Kickstarter send me an email and I'll try and get you the art and map free PDF for you to use.

Thank you, JBMannon - I have sent you a PM.

And also, thank you very much, Ifryt. I'm opening Rahasia for a look as I type this.