Instead of a complicated rule set you basically roll dice trying to match specific dice combinations in order to succeed in various encounters. Originally released back in 2016 One Deck Dungeon is unique in that it streamlines the whole genre into a set of cards and dice.
Many of them have more complicated rules and a learning curve which turns off a lot of players. They generally appeal to a more niche audience though for a number of reasons. Written by Brendan Quinn President of Tri-City Area Gaming.Dungeon Crawlers/RPGs are a popular genre for board and video games. Definitely the decision to put it to use this year was a wonderful one.
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MSRP: $10 (though, the game has been released for free via Open Game License)Īm I happy I bought it?: So, so happy. Time to Learn: 10 minutes for players, more time for GMs Player Count: 2+ (recommended less than 20) I love my friends they’ve seriously given me one of the only things in 2020 that I look forward to.ĭesigned by: Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel Seriously, the best thing that came out of this year has been our group meeting online, sharing dinner and drinks at a distance, and laughing ourselves hoarse while we can’t be together in person. In DW, players are as responsible for coming up with the game world as the GM is, and after nearly twenty sessions we’ve come up with gems like The Randy Giraffe and The Snuggly Ostrich-two rival taverns that go to war with one another as the city of Bagnan (their current home) burns The Festering Scar crime syndicate run by Steve the Crime Boss who sows chaos against the city lead by Lord Marsten, who looks exactly like Mike Hot-Pence (Google it if you don’t have a picture in your head-it’s worth it) a main character currently using a broken piece of cursed obelisk to replace his shrunken manhood (he calls it his ‘Ob piece’) holidays that revolve around giving the barbarian prince presents that he can refuse resulting in immediate banishment from the land of Barbaria (spelled ‘Barbarea’ for those in the know) and most importantly, hundreds of hours of laughter and entertainment telling stupid stories about made-up heroes in a world where nothing is planned, and things rarely make sense. We’re currently trying to remember everything we’ve contributed to collect into a cookbook for our own keepsake. In the following weeks, we attached a permanent porch-potluck to the game-one couple responsible for the main, one for drinks, and one for dessert.
It was ridiculous, and exactly what we’d all needed. I bribed them with salmon and grilled veg dropped at their doorstep, and everyone was on board. Best of all, DW doesn’t require prep work on the part of the GM you play to find out what happens, and everything important in the game happens at the table.
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Character sheets have everything a player needs to play, and the primary mechanism for rolling results is just a roll of 2d6 plus a relevant stat. Dungeon World is almost all conversational there’s rarely a map of any significant value, and there’s no reason to have a battle map and miniatures. After a month or so, I asked the group if they’d be willing to take the game online so that we could all have some structured social interaction. While we all got our bearings on what the next weeks would become (which has since turned into unending months), our DW game fell away.
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It was great we spent an evening with food and drink building a ridiculous world and a party of characters consisting of a suave, romance-novelesque swordsman, an exiled barbarian prince, a power-hungry rogue who’d made a few too many mistakes in her life, a perpetually naked ranger, and an elven bard trying desperately to figure out how to direct them toward heroism so that she could then tell their tales.Īfter we’d met for only one session in person, the world shut down. DW is a role-playing game that leans far more heavily toward the narrative side of RP, with very little math or tactics. I was a little leery of diving into 5 th Edition with folks who’d never played a tabletop RPG before, so I decided instead to introduce everyone to Dungeon World. One couple had tons of experience, the other had none, and we decided that a couple of weeks later we’d meet at our place and roll up some characters. Back in February, we’d met for drinks with two other couples, and the idea of playing D&D came up (I’m going to leave their names out of it to protect their reputations, but they know who they are, and they know what they did). While not a day passes where I don’t recognize how incredibly fortunate Sara and I are to have stable employment, a home, no struggle to help kids figure out how school works, and so on, we desperately miss evenings at home having dinner and games with our friends. 2020 has been an absolutely garbage year for plans.
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