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Oh, you can't drop Connections or Bonds. Integrating a short "how do you all know each other already" with some fun evocative questions is a delightful part of group formation. It's a Must for me in any game these days (I'd be tempted to steal some of His Majesty the Worm's Bonds tbh). I guess...

and "Ask questions and build on the answers."

Sure, ok. Lets take a step back and look at the core DH character assumptions then and what we might want to change: Class / subclass. "Role-based archetypes" that also gate your abilities. Heritage. Ancestry + community (or nature/nurture). Per the Homebrew kit, when they were thinking about...

Well i loathe when you have a bunch of distinct species that are just masks over humanity. Core DH’s ancestries are really species and IMO could use some additional distinction. When I wrote my fantasy tropes campaign frame one thing I did was assert some additional differences about each...

Yeah, I'm a little less into early S&S and a little more into "classic dungeon crawling." I think I like the split of "nature" vs "nurture" you get with ancestry/community (background). Some walk thoughts: - Collapse communities down a bit, and provide d6 options of backgrounds on each...

Interesting. Are you thinking of generic Domain cards? Like there’s a “Dungeoneering” domain anybody can pick from? Or like at L2 a fighter can choose “Squire” or something

When a PC succeeds with Hope, I tend to ask if they want to follow-up or pass the spotlight. Once in a while they follow the fiction and take a second action, but most of the time they've handed it over to somebody else.

Ok, because I was one of the people in the DH thread saying "this isn't a great game for classic-style dungeon crawling" over and over, I'm now pretty invested into seeing what we can do with it. Having read the Shadowdark Quickstart core yesterday I'm really impressed with teh simplicity and...

Well, I might play around with taking the core of Shadowdark and making it into a campaign frame to hit the vibe of dungeon crawling. I was reading through the quick start this morning and the emphasis on "pushing back the dark" is actually an excellent thematic match for DH's mechanics and...

I think it would be far more interesting to start with a DH base and see what you need to par away or tweak to get a dungeon crawler. Shadowdark is built off d20 after all, and cares about a lot of stuff that DH abstracts away. Keeping that level of abstraction but hitting the vibe of dungeon...

If you wanted to play with real-time light you could make it a Countdown (6), ticks down on 10 min increments.

Really nice set of GM tracker sheets somebody tossed up on the subreddit.

Inspired by the shadow dark melding thread & thoughts about an ancient ruin my players might be exploring I thought I'd do a little brainstorming on a generic environment you could layer over any dungeon-y style place: THE SHADOWED DARK Exploration, all tiers A place of velvet deep shadows that...

Have torches run on a countdown that gutters on rolls with Fear. “Attack the light” is an easy add to DH Moves (there’s a couple it can fall under - Change the Environment & Take Something), and adversary actions. You'd probably have to do a pretty comprehensive reconsideration of what classes...

I generally conform to the 4e/Eberron idea of “the player characters are exceptional.” That doesn’t mean that NPCs don’t have powers of their own, but they’re different. Of course the flip side is that their opposition is exceptional as well!

Assuming it’s as per the playtest stuff, there’s now one “engaging in combat while under fire or vs something that can and will defend itself” move (Do Battle). It wraps in Act Under Fire and Attack Someone. That’s it for Basic/Standard direct violence moves. Some of the old Seize by Force...

My favorite PBTA’s XP move includes “did you act in accordance with or struggle against your instinct” which functions very similar. It’s led to the best character introspection and growth I’ve seen. If there’s one thing I wish DH had but it doesn’t it’s space in the design for this. You can...

Absofreakinglutely. In the FITD game we just wrapped a couple weeks back, the players ran with this idea of a pre-collapse AI I'd introduced and wound up like jumping through hoops to save it from its facility self-destruct (through to risking the synthetic character's consciousness to act as a...

I’ve alluded to this a few times, but it’s also really important to note that Harper is explicitly talking about the context of designing custom moves for Apocalypse World. There’s lots of games out there with mechanics that “cross the line” and let the players author fiction advantageous to...

The actual name this group of techniques usually goes by in my experience is “paint the scene” or “ask questions and build on the answers.”