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A tabletop roleplaying game.

Dungeon World

Dungeon World is a tabletop roleplaying game. This text tells you how to play that game.

You'll find the entire text of the game, broken up by chapter, here. The text is formatted in XML designed to be consumed by InDesign. Forgive any odd formatting or bad style, that's usually a concession to InDesign.

The InDesign files are also available here. They're not guaranteed to work since the InDesign file format uses fully qualified paths. The layout files make use of proprietary fonts, so some fonts may not load. The art used in the printed version of the game is not included.

License

See the LICENSE file for the full details, but here's the basics: you're free to use this text any way you like so long as you credit the authors.

What we hope you do with it is make new stuff: make classes, adventures, moves, even whole new games.

Contributing

In case you're a roleplaying game geek who also wants to contribute directly, we're open to pull requests. Typo fixes and editing would be wonderful.

If you start a pull request please also modify text/appendices/Thanks.xml and add your name to the Contributors section so we can thank you.

dungeon-world's Issues

Parley Rewording

From John Harper:

The grammar on Parley is a bit odd ("you have leverage on" puts the preposition at the end). Instead, maybe:

When you use leverage to manipulate a GM character, roll+CHA. "Leverage" means you control something they need or want. On a hit, ...

Something like that.

Spells should ignore armor

Extra comma in thief look

"shifty, eyes"

Add Class Moves Discussion

Bolster's hold should be spent based on fiction

Clarify Fixing Debilities

They go away descriptively as well.

It Goes To Eleven should give 1d4 damage forward

Dangling Gold References

Carouse
Supply
Bard, Fighter, Thief
"What's Gold" chapter 2

Unforgettable Face (Bard) references non-existent move

Armor for cover?

Should cover grant armor?

Add Lower Depths Monster Setting

n Armor or n armor

There is approximately an even number of "N Armor" and "n armor" references; Is there a preferred format?

In the case of (1 armor, 2 weight) that makes sense; Monsters have 4 Armor. Just trying to get a baseline for consistency.

Misspelling in 'Turn Undead'

In the Turn Undead move, the text reads “When you hold you holy symbol aloft”; the second you should read "your".

Am I doing this right?

Too Much Armor

Ajax the fighter has 5 armor at 2nd level. That's a little crazy.

Healing Potion should heal 10

Text file has 15 (Beta 2.1 had 10)

Add Woods Monster Setting

Rewrite Perilous Journey

Should Cleric only get one precept?

Backstab should be Dex-based

Having to have high Str as a Thief sucks.

Does replace also require?

Many higher level advanced moves either have a lower level move as a "requirement," or they state that they "replace" a lower level move.

I feel that it is unclear that if higher level move B replaces lower level move A, is that character required to have A before taking B?

Bard has references to Arcane Music

Change to Arcane Art.

Update Price List

Revise prices

Add:
*Horses
*Crossbow

Also: s/gold/coin/

s/one/once in Ettin

From Rob Brennan:

typo: p259, Ettin,1st bullet
"Attack two enemies at one" -> "Attack two enemies at on_c_e"

Should new characters start at first level?

Now that HP doesn't scale, should new characters always start at first level? They won't be too far out of place.

Should Make Camp and Recover heal less?

Currently Make Camp is a pretty huge deal, half your HP.

Do bonds with dead people resolve?

Add Hordes Monster Setting

Add Undead Monster Setting

Thrown weapons

Weapons that can be thrown should say that.

Bonds may become inaccessible

If you don't take all your bonds at first level, how do you ever get more bonds than you started with?

Improve Magic Items

Items need to be brought up-to-speed narratively to fit the rest of the game.

Reword Bless

Duration: So long as they stand and fight

Add Planar Monster Setting

Contact Spirits' fictional effect isn't well presented

Contact spirits just lets you ask questions. Doesn't sound much like contacting spirits.

Clarify eaping-muscle

Line 14 of 17b-Denizens…what is an eaping-muscle? A new monster.

Clarify Attacking Multiple Targets

Suggested: if the attack fictionally effects multiple targets, roll once, deal same damage to all.

End of session rephrase

Change "defeated" to "overcome."

Rules for Multiple Monsters

Suggested: When multiple monsters attack, roll all their damage dice and take the highest.

When dealing with treasure for multiple monsters, roll for the highest and add roll each additional monster's damage, add that much coin.

Some starting Wizard spells are marked as non-basic

Add Abberations Monster Setting

Add Caverns Monster Setting

Add Folk Monster Setting

Fighter Load

Should the Fighter Load be 7+Str? The Paladin is 8+Str; It seems as though it should be at least 8+Str, or perhaps 9+Str as per Dungeon World Basic.

Confusion in Ranger ability

"When you Undertake a Perilous journey you can take two roles. You make a roll for each."

I find the use of roles and roll confusion; perhaps "you can assume two roles. For each role, make a separate roll."

Divine Intervention should be 1 hold

Eldritch Connection is broken

Every time you touch someone you get to ask a question about their past.

Clarify Multiple Characters

Multiple characters per player are now part of death and dying. Let's make it more general.

Remove Monster Level References

Hold Person (Cleric Spell)
Consume Unlike (Cleric Spell)
Sleep (Wizard Spell)

Rewrite Poisons

From Matthew Gagan:

With the new h.p. and monster creation rules, "-5 damage ongoing" now has the potential to turn a dangerous and climactic "boss" fight into a steamroll. And that's exactly what a good Poisoner will save those doses for.

By the same token, Serpent's Tears might warrant another look. Seems to make thieves the damage dealing class against anything with substantive hit points. Maybe that's what you want. I haven't thought about that as closely.

But Bloodweed. Man...

Do potions heal Debilities?