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    This document introduces Stonetop, a campaign setting for Dungeon World that focuses play on a small isolated village called Stonetop. The setting provides maps and information about the village and surrounding area but leaves many details to be determined through play. It includes tweaked rules to encourage a slower pace of advancement and resource management for the village. Stonetop aims to give player characters roots in the village and establish them as local heroes fighting on its behalf, rather than wandering adventurers.

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    This document introduces Stonetop, a campaign setting for Dungeon World that focuses play on a small isolated village called Stonetop. The setting provides maps and information about the village and surrounding area but leaves many details to be determined through play. It includes tweaked rules to encourage a slower pace of advancement and resource management for the village. Stonetop aims to give player characters roots in the village and establish them as local heroes fighting on its behalf, rather than wandering adventurers.

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    Welcome to Stonetop

    The village and the region are somewhat pre-defined. You’ll find
    maps and almanacs for the nearby regions, steadings, dungeon start-
    ers, and some notable NPCs, monsters, and treasures, but there are
    still plenty of blanks to fill in during play. Many of the details—such
    What is this? as historical events, the most pressing threats, and even the nature of
    Stonetop is a campaign playset for Dungeon World. It focuses the the gods—are specifically determined by the playbooks and choices
    game around a small, isolated town and sets the PCs up as the made by the players.
    heroes of that town. It’s less about murderhobos looting tombs and
    more about PCs fighting on behalf of their homes. There are some other minor tweaks to the standard rules, including:

    Why? Slower character advancement


    I’ve found that Dungeon World played as-written can easily end up A resource management mini-game for the steading itself
    with disjointed, somewhat gonzo game worlds. Which is awesome! Follower rules from The Perilous Wilds
    But it’s not always what you’re looking for. A different take on the Aid/Interfere moves and bonds, which
    incorporates bonds between PCs and NPCs
    I’ve also found that the standard rules encourage (or just assume) a A setting-specific gear list, reflecting Iron Age technology
    fair amount of wandering and rootlessness. The PCs are often out- Rules for outfitting before adventures based on the prosperity
    siders. They have some ties to each other but not necessarily to the and current fortunes of the village
    wider world. If things get bad, they have the option to walk away
    and let the world burn. Sometimes, you find yourself asking why What else is special about the setting?
    these misfits trust each other at all. All the characters are humans. Fantastic peoples are heard of but
    mysterious. No one on in living memory has actually met one of
    The pacing of Dungeon World can also be rather intense. After all, the bronze-skinned Ustrina. The Forest Folk haven’t been seen in a
    part of the GM’s agenda is to fill the character’s lives with adven- decade. The horrid little crinwin plague the village but no one really
    ture. You might get some downtime when you undertake a journey, knows what they want.
    but often you’re just go-go-going. I’ve had games of Dungeon World
    were the characters went from level 1 to level 7 in about three weeks There is no government, no empire, no kings or queens—at least,
    of in-game time! not around here. The village is on its own, with only a handful of
    neighboring steadings. Far to the south are more civilized lands, but
    Stonetop is an attempt to slow the pace down and to give the char- they have little interest in this northern backwater—for now,
    acters some roots. It’s the kind of setting where months, even years at least.
    might pass between adventures. Where heroes might retire and raise
    families. Where their children might become heroes themselves. The village is built on ancient, giant-sized ruins of the Makers, and
    other ruins dot the landscape. Magic is not easy, or common, or pre-
    What does it do differently? dictable. Or safe. The past lies buried all around, but it rests unquietly.
    First and foremost, play is centered on the character’s home town,
    the village of Stonetop. The class playbooks are all unique to the set- Why play Stonetop?
    ting. Each one is designed to be tied directly to the village by bonds Because maybe you want to be a local hero instead of some wander-
    of blood, loyalty, friendship, and duty. ing murderhobo. Because you want to build a place up rather than
    burn it down.
    The village of Stonetop itself has a playbook, with stats based on the
    Steading rules from Dungeon World and moves for mobilizing and Because there’s a world full of mystery out there, and buried se-
    managing the village’s resources and generating threats and oppor- crets—who knows what you might find?
    tunities for the town’s heroes to deal with. The Stonetop playbook
    also has a set of improvements that can be achieved in play. Because the world is darkening, like the sky before a late-summer
    storm. And these are good people here in Stonetop, your kith and kin.

    If you don’t step up to protect them, who will?

    —Jeremy

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