I’m running a few sessions of Dungeon World for some new players at my workplace next week and I was wondering what…

I’m running a few sessions of Dungeon World for some new players at my workplace next week and I was wondering what…

I’m running a few sessions of Dungeon World for some new players at my workplace next week and I was wondering what advice you might have.

Most of the players have never played DW and a few of them have never roleplayed before. My main aim is for us to have fun and for them to see that the stories that we can create together in a TTPRG like DW can be personal and dramatic.

I have 8 players interested so I’m thinking of splitting it into two sessions of 4 each. There might be the opportunity for us to play more than session (for one or both groups) as well, and I’d like to come up with something that really shows off DW’s ability to weave a complex narrative in that short time – one that really builds and is centred around the PCs.

I was thinking I’d either run a Dungeon Starter or go with something like Brian Holland’s excellent Adventure Builder. The Starter would give me more to lean on if the players are expecting more of a cohesive ‘plot’ but I expect it would make the adventure feel less personal. Building the plot at the table would almost certainly give them more ‘skin in the game’ but it may be lacking a sense of mounting drama during the session(s).

What do you reckon?

Anyone else ever thought it was odd that nowhere in the DW book does it suggest that the GM should misdirect?

Anyone else ever thought it was odd that nowhere in the DW book does it suggest that the GM should misdirect?

Anyone else ever thought it was odd that nowhere in the DW book does it suggest that the GM should misdirect? In my opinion this is a really good piece of advice that Apocalypse World gives to MCs and I’ve never understood why it didn’t make it across.

Anyone know if Ray Otus is intending to do a print collection of his Plundergrounds zine?

Anyone know if Ray Otus is intending to do a print collection of his Plundergrounds zine?

Anyone know if Ray Otus is intending to do a print collection of his Plundergrounds zine? (Maybe Ray Otus will know!?)

I’ve been trying to come up with a template for prepping my Dungeon World sessions for a while now.

I’ve been trying to come up with a template for prepping my Dungeon World sessions for a while now.

I’ve been trying to come up with a template for prepping my Dungeon World sessions for a while now. I tried to make something that would guide me so that when I sit down cold to prep I can get straight into it.

Drawing on good advice from this community and particularly the Discern Realities podcast I am currently using the following. If you find it at least a little bit useful, interesting or inspiring then I’m happy. 🙂

If you have comments or suggestions they are welcome!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DHILrUeX0ardO5xlHWOSA8mIlAF4QFpzWEuDwZ9KpJk/edit?usp=sharing

You’re sitting down to run a session of a game (and it’s not the first session).

You’re sitting down to run a session of a game (and it’s not the first session).

You’re sitting down to run a session of a game (and it’s not the first session).

You usually have some establishing questions in mind that you want to ask the players.

You also have some nice in medias res text you intend to read to the players to (a) remind them where you left off the previous session and (b) give them a dramatic “in” for this session.

So what order do you do these in?

Me, I’m conflicted.

If I do the questions first it can often result in interesting conversations (well, you’d hope so wouldn’t you!?) and possible action, and then the medias res bit can subsequently seem a little railroad-y or forced.

If I do the in media res first, I forget to ask the questions.

Anyone have a working link to the Dungeon World Adventure Builder mentioned in Discern Realities Ep 54?

Anyone have a working link to the Dungeon World Adventure Builder mentioned in Discern Realities Ep 54?

Anyone have a working link to the Dungeon World Adventure Builder mentioned in Discern Realities Ep 54? The link at http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/discern-realities/episode-54 is broken. 🙁

Has anyone had any oddities playing the Discern Realities podcast using the Google Podcasts app on an Android phone?

Has anyone had any oddities playing the Discern Realities podcast using the Google Podcasts app on an Android phone?

Has anyone had any oddities playing the Discern Realities podcast using the Google Podcasts app on an Android phone? I know this is a specific tech question that we don’t normally discuss here but I’m posting in case it could be something to do with the way an episode of this podcast has been marked up…

Specifically, I’ve listening through the episodes for the first time (starting at 1 and working upwards). This was fine until I hit around episode 24 which, in my timeline, was when the “Codex Volume 1 Kickstarter Special” episode was released. Ever since then when I start listening to the podcast it jumps to that episode and starts playing it.

Muttering to myself I stop that episode in the app and then select the one I was half way through (say episode 35). Here’s the really weird bit: it then starts playing the “Codex Volume 1…” again but the app tells me it’s playing episode 35 on the UI. It really, really thinks it’s doing it right.

Maybe this is the Google Podcast app being crappy but I haven’t been able to find any reports of that kind of behaviour online so I was wondering if there might be a configuration issue (e.g. some meta-data attached to an episode) that is causing Google Podcasts to get confused.

Anyway, happy to take this offline. I’ll continue trying to dig around the internets for other ideas also. Thanks for making it this far!