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One of the things I love about Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA) design is that you can look at a game’s basic moves sheet and get a good idea of what the game is actually about. Even games with moves that address similar fictional situations—getting in a fight,
On Tuesday, Helena revealed Recall from Dungeon World 2, and how it differs from Spout Lore. In my experience playing and GMing the original Dungeon World, Discern Realities has always been a slightly strange move (it's a great podcast, though). When you closely study a situation or person,
As I hinted last Friday, today I get to talk to you about one half of our approach to knowledge and information gathering in our version of Dungeon World—AKA Dungeon World 2 (DW2)! Before we can start, let’s take a look at what the original game (OG DW)
On page 10 of the original Dungeon World (OG DW) there’s a section that became the core inspiration for our vision for Dungeon World 2 (DW2). It’s entitled “Why?” and it presents the three pillars of the DW experience: 1. The characters do amazing things 2. They struggle
In our last blog post, we revealed some of the biggest changes in the works for Dungeon World 2. Changes that affect core parts of the game like stats, harm, and consequences, for the purpose of enriching scenes of exciting character-focused adventure fantasy. The reaction was, understandably, mixed. Some people
