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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8348769" data-attributes="member: 16814">I'm not trying to be difficult, but this response increases my perception that you're running Dungeon World as a D&D campaign with some different mechanics and a bit more player input.  Dungeon World's moments of play are meant to be a cascading snowball of peril.  Downtime for the characters happens, of course, but it's a montage, off screen, narrated stuff about what they do with the time they have.  It isn't moments where you are roleplaying things like researching golem creation by finding and visiting libraries that may or may not have the book you want.  This is not how the game is built to run because you can't drive the fiction with failures and framing new dangers because you have to fit in that it's downtime and less threatening.  This pulls the teeth from the mechanics.  And, fill their lives with adventure isn't a broad, on average thing.  It's a thing you do every moment of the game.   All of the principles are.  They aren't 70% things, they are 100% things.  Dungeon World is meant to focus entirely on the adventure part.  The "end of session" rules are the only bits of downtime that Dungeon World acknowledges -- everything else is just narrated, like "I tend the homestead for the winter." This is because of how the move structure works, the need to make soft and hard moves against the characters, and how those moves are framed.  Studying to make a golem, for instance, would require soft and hard moves from the GM on checks, but what soft and hard moves are there during a downtime phase where nothing bad is supposed to happen?And, finally, the adventure you described sounds, again, like a typical D&D adventure and not a Dungeon World adventure.  I'm not sure how puzzles work in Dungeon World, but more than 1?  Traps, also, are rarely a discreet encounter in DW, but rather complications to other actions.  The monsters sound good, though.  The overall structure of you example implies that there was a good deal of prep here -- having puzzles to be solved, placing traps to be bypassed.  This isn't how Dungeon World is supposed to be played -- if anything, you have a starting situation in mind, a solid prep to set the tone of the dungeon/adventure site and introduce a theme for that dungeon, but, after that, play should spiral very rapidly into places where you can only have a sketch of prep -- a monster roaming the dungeon, or a neat piece of set dressing to use, or a list of likely new challenges if the first one peters out due to lots of great rolls.  Puzzles, though?  Not really a large part of the DW wheelhouse because puzzles directly test players, and DW is not at all about that.  If you're using a puzzle in DW that doesn't test players, by keeping it vague in description or malleable in solution, then you're just asking for die rolls.There's not a specific moment of play here for me to point to, but overall, when you talk of your Dungeon World game, it feels very off.  Not as in not fun, which I'm sure it is, but off to someone that knows how that game works and runs.  The things you're talking about feel like they come from a D&D game, not a DW game.  The same "oh, and holy poop, then this crazy stuff happened!" is missing, and there's a lot of setting that seeming to be constraining play.  Heck, the fact you have an order of wizards and such?  In the DW setting (what there is of it), there's just the one Wizard, and he's adventuring.  And just the one Fighter.  And just the one Barabarian.  The conceit is that these are heroes of legend setting out to make that legend, not Bob from accounting that just quit due to a midlife crisis and went adventuring.  And, it's not bad to change the setting, not bad at all, but the ways you've related it feel very much like a D&D style setting, where setting is very important and constraining on the characters and comes from the GM (mostly).  And that feels like a normal D&D setting.</blockquote>

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