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Thanks. I think that answers my question about using sensible actions to shift probability curves in your favor: it probably would involve "taking a +N forward" to some subset of possible actions governed by tags. E.g. luring enemies into quicksand to impose an Immobile tag, and then using your...

In this context there's an important difference between the player's metagame decision at chargen time to build or not build a character capable of spamming Stun, vs. the character's decision (as roleplayed by the player from the character's perspective) at game time to take advantage of their...

Yeah, that's what I suspected. Thanks for confirming.

It's not completely clear but to me that sounds like "no, taking actions to set things up and shift probability curves in your favor is not a thing in Dungeon World." If so that's an example of the cost you pay in lost detail.

Wait, so this is about the player's decisions at chargen, not the character's decisions in the game? Or both? ("Spamming" is a gametime decision, not a chargen activity.) I have enough powergamer in me that I find powerful and legal but unthematic options both tempting and stressful. (Warlock 2...

Sincere question to anybody knowledgeable: does Dungeon World even have the concept of modifiers to probability distributions? Simple example: in 5E, if your AC and to-hit are better than the enemy's, it's advantageous to impose disadvantage on both sides (e.g. by dropping prone in an archery...

If I can cast it using wizardly means, then it's wizardly enough for me. I would have no thematic concerns as a PC about Stun, only tactical concerns about which is more cost-effective. As a player or a GM I might have thematic game-design concerns about whether Stun ought to be a low-level...

Even before that, the problem with the "oh no we flushed out Ravager suits out the airlock" is that they had no reason to be wearing the inferior Ravager suits in the first place. The fact that it comes back to bite them a second time in the same movie is just, facepalm.

The first Thor movie has a villain so underdeveloped that I literally cannot even remember if there is one. It might be Thor's own vanity, except... if so, I don't remember it being vanquished or anything. AFAIR there's nothing specific that leads to Thor becoming "worthy" to go home. It just...

Every single Guardians movie has someone almost die or actually die due to vacuum exposure. Both Peter and Rocket have specialized, lightweight equipment to help them deal with this hazard. After Yondu's death in Guardians 2 due to the Guardians having one too few of Rocket's aero-rigs...

To be fair, the Warhammer guy can easily switch weapons to a longbow or two-handed sword, which will approximately double his damage against large monsters. And his job isn't necessarily to do damage anyway; even if he just acts as an AC 3ish bodyguard for an artillery wizard he's bringing a lot...

I noticed several plot holes, including the inexplicable absence of both Rocket's aero-rigs from Guardians 2 and Quill's space helmet from Guardians 1, timeline issues with Knowhere conveniently traveling vast distances that took most of 48 hours for the others to travel earlier in the movie...

Good point about in medias res, but our hypothetical new GM will still need to run the actual hexcrawl at some point. He needs to know that hexcrawls have action measured in hours or days, not minutes; someone needs to tell him what to do when players say "I go north". How far north? Where do I...

Okay, then I guess you have three choices when you GM: extrapolate based on rulebooks instead of FKR-style, determine randomly (e.g. DC = d20+prof), or choose based on some other agenda like sexual attraction or dramatism. I have four choices: reasonable guess, rulebook extrapolation, arbitrary...

But what would you do to teach a new DM how to actually do these things? Say I'm a new DM. I read your advice: Grab a map. Randomly generate points of interest. Drop in a starter town. Go. I grab a map of the Rocky Mountains. I, uh, draw some dragon lairs on the map and an obelisk 50 miles high...

Oh, okay, I guess I misunderstood that paragraph. :)

Repeating a non sequitur doesn't make it more true. That last bit of your post relies on the non sequitur--and here you're adding another fallacy in the form of a false dichotomy! Since when does not being a one-in-a-million Army Ranger make me someone who has "no knowledge at all about traps...

Yeah, "busy" maps is the exception I had in mind when I wrote "generally a mistake" instead of "always a mistake." I agree that sometimes it's better to be terse.

Well, if you were a new player, would you take offense to any of the suggestions that have been written in this thread or will be written? Your commentary would be useful, if you'd like to offer any.

I would like this thread to focus more on teaching new DMs how to run the game, and not just on how to prep a dungeon. Edit: ninja'ed by Lanefan!