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Factions: Great RPG Mechanics #RPGMechanics Week Six

Dungeon World has fallen out of favor these days for a host of reasons. It has been interesting to see some recent games try to position themselves as the successor it. OOH it’s also a situation which has spawned many discussions about the kinds of worlds it could simulate and the limitations of some of the base assumptions. Is Dungeon World hobbled by being a PbtA approach to D&D tropes? It’s a conversation I’ve seen more times than I care to. 

What is interesting to me is the host of striking and unique settings built for DW over the years. It’s worth looking through those to find the bits and pieces we could adapt for other games. One of the best of those is The Green Law of Varkith. That’s part of a trio of DW supplements from Magpie with The Last Days of Anglekite doing big world-ending fantasy, The Cold Ruins of Lastlife being heavily inspired by Dark Souls, and the last one, Varkith, having the general feel of Planescape. 

Varkith is rich with interesting ideas. The non-human races presented in the game and novel and great. They’re the kind of thing I’d like to see more of: truly alien folk. There’s also a mechanic for the players creating and developing a company, called a Guild here. That’s the main point of the setting– which is cool but also puts some rails on play that some players may not be into. I ran into that a couple of times where the premise of the game’s weird city and rules created non-productive friction. 

But there’s one element of Varkith I think worth borrowing: faction management. It feels a little like Blades in the Dark. That has a Crew which is the equivalent of your Guild. It has factions at various levels of scale operating in the background, but they’re often more static. Those factions move when the PCs interact with them directly or post-mission blowback activates them. This more passive approach is similar to other games like The Sprawl and Mutant: Genlab Alpha. 

Everything in Varkith is organized around Guilds, not just PCs. Unlike Planescape’s Sigil, here players belong to that core guild they run, rather than being associated with different factions. Guilds have stats, purposes, and styles. The cycle of play moves between character turns and guild turns. In a Guild Turn, the PCs take a single guild action for free and then may pay to take additional actions. These include Violently Attacking Another Guide, Seize Territory through Force, Collect Information, Discern Strengths and Weaknesses, Strike a Deal with Another Guild, Manipulate the Legal System, Interfere with Another Guild, or Perform a Ritual. 

There’s an additional economy for Coin, Markers, and Rank. The really smart part is this: after the PCs have taken their Guild Actions, the GM also runs down through the different Guilds, giving them each an action. It builds up a set of events and maneuvers happening in the background. There’s some really cool mechanics for how to manage this. It’s a dynamite way to manage things. 

For several campaigns now I’ve used that system but with a slight modification. Instead of choosing which action a faction takes, I roll that randomly. Then, if the action targets another faction, I randomly roll to see which one. I will sometimes modify that if the target is obvious. I also added a few new Guild Actions to the mix. To track this out I create a grid matrix to record the factions and their maneuvers.  I color code the responses so I can see how things shift over time. It’s a dynamite tool for building up what’s happening in the background of the world and always creates new and interesting hooks. 

You can see me talk a little more about this and exactly how I use this tool here.

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[xiombrag]

So, any Dungeon World GMs out there? #uft

Kirt Dankmyer originally shared:

I've finally finished the manuscript for Cross World, my genre-crossing post-apocalyptic science fantasy kitchen sink supplement for Dungeon World. (Skip to the end of this post for more on what the supplement is about.)

I need blind testers. That is, people who will run Dungeon World games with at least some of the stuff from the supplement, without me looking over their shoulder too much or answering too many of their questions, unless it's about a typo or formatting error. Is it comprehensible to people other than me, and is it fun and balanced?

If you're interested, let me know and I'll give you access to the manuscript; it's in Google Docs at the moment. It's still in a rough state and doesn't have any art, but it should be playable.

People who give me at least some feedback will get credit and a PDF copy of the final product, and the option to get a physical copy at the same cost as me (no markup, at-cost_. Blind testers might get more depending on how the Kickstarter goes. And even if the Kickstarter fails, I will be producing a version with art and a print product, it just won't be as polished.

Here's more about the supplement, from the Introduction:

Remember when you were twelve years old, and the most AWESOME thing you could think of was a world stuffed full of everything kewl? You know, a world with magick, laser weapons, psionics, mutants, mecha, plasma axes, biotech, ninjas, rune weapons, nuclear grenades, uncontrolled AIs, and decorative skulls... You name it, and it's there somewhere, so long as it's TOTALLY AWESOME.

It's time to return to that world. Maybe you never left it, or maybe you were never there in the first place. But it's time to return there anyway, because time and space twisted and ripped open, and anything is possible.

In Cross World, the entirety of planet Earth has turned into a nexus for other universes. Because that is AWESOME.

Ever since I was twelve, I've loved mixing genres. It's why I'm still a sucker for "world nexus" settings, such as Matt Howarth's Bugtown, Cynosure from Grimjack, Neopolis from Top 10, and of course Sigil from the Planescape setting for Dungeons and Dragons. It's one of the things that attracted me to RPGs like GURPS and Torg in the 1980s, even if my personal preferences drove me away from those games in time.

Cross World is a post-apocalyptic cross-genre setting for Dungeon World and Adventures on Dungeon Planet that is intended to allow characters from multiple genres and worlds to exist in the same game. Even if one's game is not set in Cross World, the existence of Cross World in the background, or something similar, allows one to play the regular Dungeon World classes alongside Cross World classes, as well as classes from Adventures on Dungeon Planet, Class Warfare, The Last Days of Anglekite, Inverse World, Grim World, or anything else that I've forgotten or didn't exist when this was written. Plus whatever crazy shit you decide to make up.

Don't worry! Besides this supplement, all you really need is Dungeon World (or its System Reference Document) plus a willingness to roll with the crazy that comes from this sort of gonzo setting. I hope your inner twelve-year-old enjoys it as much as mine does!

Go play, and be AWESOME!

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[rickandtammy]

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