Search results

Not in terms of how it would play out between the two games. Also, there are no threatened areas in DW. This is entirely a faulty understanding of how PbtA works. First and foremost, in a PbtA game like DW, you would also pick what the orc would find the most beneficial. Here's where the...

I don't really see how it's different, except in the most basic of ways: in D&D, the orc would inflict some damage on Brog (since this is Orc #4, they probably don't have the ability to inflict any conditions--at least, I can't remember if 5e orcs have such an ability that can be used in an...

Incorrect. Carouse: The player can choose to befriend an NPC, learn rumors or information, or avoid a specific type of complication, but they don't create those things. It's effectively a combination of Investigation, Persuasion, and certain saving throws. Nor is the result random. The PC...

I think the reasons for the big numbers is so that players can do massive amounts of damage without having HP bloat. If you kept all the numbers low, then you have your mighty, super-powerful warriors inflicting only a tiny amount of damage, which doesn't feel right.

They've changed that in 5.24 then. In 5.14, disease was specifically listed in lesser restoration. And it doesn't appear that any version of the spell in 5.24 cures disease. Anyway, assuming 5.14, it's not going to stop an existing plague, but it would do a huge amount to prevent one from...

While yes, D&D should include rules for this (even if only as "optional rules"), it's not hard to actually houserule it. Combat--miss by 5 or less: minimal damage. Maybe 1 point, maybe equal to your PB or attribute modifier. If this damage would bring the target to 0 hp, they don't die but go...

Cure disease was lumped under lesser restoration. It's a 2nd-level spell, which rather suggests that in order to create a "realistic" world in 5e, where disease is rampant, either spellcasting clerics of 3rd level and above are vanishingly rare; disease, or at least deadly and/or epidemic...

OK, here's a possible one: It relies heavily on the game's creators and players knowing (a) how to accurately gamify reality, and (b) how to gamify it well, and (c) what actually should or should not be gamified. It's kind of hard to find all three. I'm using gamify to mean "turn into playable...

Not what? You've never played in a game that's had the threats prepared ahead of time? Or you've never played in a game that's had any improvisation in it?

It's not fully reactionary because the GM can prep threats ahead of time. Also, "fully reactionary" is a thing in improvised RPGs, which is something that we all know can be done using D&D.

I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. All games have expectations. When you ran 5e, were you a failure if you didn't have 6-8 Medium encounters between every single long rest? Were you a failure if you didn't give out exactly the right about of treasure as expected by the PC's level? Or if you...

GMs don't use player moves. GMs use GM moves. Mind, depending on the game in question, it's possible for a GM to create a move associated with a place or NPC that they made that mimics a PC move. (In case you weren't aware, GMs can create moves for their NPCs and locations.) Also, moves...

Yeah you do. You complain all the time about how 5e is nothing more than a money grab and about how the new books, which you don't like, are badly done. That's a bludgeon.

Why is who separating what? Why is the GM separating the party? Very often, because it makes things more difficult and potentially more interesting and dramatic. It's an adventuring trope with a long history, after all. Or were you talking about in-game reasons? I dunno; you'd have to talk...

@Enrahim, is that supposed to be a gotcha or something? There are some published adventures for PbtA games. There are thousands of published D&D adventures. I didn't say there weren't any.

And this right here tells me more than anything you honestly don't understand PbtA/narrative games.

I've already answered this multiple times. If a GM decides to slam a portcullis down, thus splitting the party in two, they're separating them. It doesn't matter if the actual game is AD&D or DungeonWorld, except that Bend Bars, Lift Gates is a part of Strength in one game and a fighter move...

Doing so actually requires you to understand the material (or else produce junk). And to understand the material, you need to think about it. So do you need to write an essay? No. But that means trad gamers who are actually designing and producing trad game material have put in as much thought...

Here's quite a big list of adventures for DW. I have an entire book of adventures for Monster of the Week called the Tome of Mysteries. There's a book of adventures, Nephews in Peril, for Brindlewood Bay, that's been sitting in my Drivethru wishlist for a while, and that's an even less...