r/DungeonoftheMadMage

Hey guys

I’ve just released the first two episodes of my new actual-play podcast, Hyperion Presents: The End Games, and I’m looking for some honest feedback from people who actually know and play Dungeon World.

The campaign starts with a group of ordinary fantasy tavern workers who win their workplace lottery.

Unfortunately, the prize isn't money.

They've won a place in a televised dungeon-crawling competition run by a ridiculously powerful interplanetary corporation.

The show is intended to be a mixture of Dungeon World, fantasy workplace comedy, corporate satire, sci-fi/fantasy and a televised death game.

I'm particularly interested in feedback on the actual play rather than just whether you like the setting.

I'm deliberately asking for constructive criticism. If something isn't working, I'd much rather hear it now while I'm still early enough in the project to change it.

The campaign is designed to start fairly comedic and gradually introduce more serious stakes, while keeping the corporate/game-show satire running throughout.

If anyone has the time to listen to either episode or even just part of one I'd genuinely appreciate your thoughts.

And if you hate it, please remember that your feedback has been carefully recorded and will be included in your personnel file.

Hyperion Leisure Industries thanks you for your valuable contribution.

To make the Obstacle Course (level 15) more confounding and fast paced, I’m thinking about changing how the cooldown works, either making characters immune to teleport traps for only 10 minutes after triggering one, or applying the cooldown to the trap instead of the character, or just waiving it entirely and making every trap work every time.

Has anyone tried anything like this and can share their experience? Are there any potential problems with this that I haven’t foreseen?

sooo i messed up and kinda need some assistance on a good punishment for a wish spell that was used wrongly.

basically what occurred was my party had attacked some animals in wyllowwood and obviously wyllow came and attacked they’re only level 11’s and i gave wyllow a decent buff to handle 6 players. but anyways i had completely forgotten one of the players had a luck blade with one wish use left on it (she also forgot she had the blade) so two rounds went by with one round her pulling it out the bag of holding and the following round casting wish, she spent the entire time writing the wish to bring us back before they did any harm to the wildlife and the session was running late and i really didn’t want them to get tpk but here’s where i messed up i didnt know the blade required attunement i had let the spell go through and brought them back to the location and time period the wish stated got home and finally decided to look up the stupid item only to find out my mistake.

soo i need a worthy punishment for harnessing the wish spell without proper attunement to the blade and i don’t mind the wish going off cause id rather them not fight wyllow or at least unprepared like they were and also given the mad mage himself is connected to the mountain i was gonna have him pop up right after the wish went off cause he most likely feel the disturbance or something.

anyways any suggestions are really helpful also i guess ill include the wish

“I wish to undo all actions that have been done between now and when we (Varra, Zuri, Ana, Olo, Oz, and Raphael) arrived at the gravesite of Crissam. All creatures and land are returned to their original state at that time. The only creatures that will remember what has conspired in this time are Varra, Zuri, Ana, Olo, Oz, and Raphael. All other living things do not have any memory of this time that is being undone.”

I have decided that the Circlet of Human Perfection from Level 2 transforms the character who wears it into a version of their real human player put through one of those snapchat filters that make you pretty and/or handsome.