Category: The Gauntlet: Our Games

So, I just started running DW at my flgs for 5 people, 4 of whom I don’t know at all. I’m pretty stoked for it, as I’ll be using Perilous Wilds to improvise a lot of the encounters but running the over arching plot line of the Kingmaker adventure path from Paizo (which I’ve wanted to play forever, but not at the expense of actually playing Pathfinder…).

2 of the players joined after the first session and have yet to pick classes, and what they are interested in I have heard weird things about.

The actual questions are these: I’ve heard people on the podcasts say the Bard is terrible, so what’s so bad about it? The Playbooks I printed out include two that aren’t in core DW – Barbarian and Immolator. Where did those come from, and how do they mesh with the regular classes?

Last, I feel like I’ve heard that there is advice on converting existing modules to DW. Some of the encounters in Kingmaker seem like gratuitous combats with no actual context for the plot, just random stuff to encounter on the party’s exploration. I think Perilous Wilds should solve that on its own, but what are good resources for converting the root plot line?

Thx!