I’ve been having a lot of fun playing Dungeon World with Daniel Fowler.
Barbozar the Barbarian first died (ignominiously) when he was struck by a piece of masonry that was dislodged by a Kaiju. He was visited by his feline deity, who gave him another chance to seek a more glorious death. Barbozar died again the next day, taking with him the life of the dastardly snake cultist who had poisoned his mind and slit his throat. This also involved an awesome plummet from the top of the cultist’s temple to the bottom of their vipers’ pit, perhaps the most epic DDT in history. This death pleased his goddess, who offered him a deal.
At this point we all began to brainstorm. I suggested that he could choose to die a human or be transformed into a sabertooth tiger, serving Josh’s Ranger Durion as an animal companion (it’s worth noting that Durion had begun to worship the goddess of hunting as well). Matt suggested that Barbozar could choose to die a Barbarian or live as a Paladin, and swap the playbooks out completely. Daniel tasked me with finding a balance between these ideas.
The result was this compendium class, which steals mercilessly from the Paladin playbook but hopefully stands on its own. Let me know what you think, and if you have any deity-specific, Paladin-inspired compendium classes, please share them!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tz-qTkIW25BPRmuHg2f8dYgNWRLH7rLVIFn_XvJrsug/edit?usp=drive_web
