Last updated June 27th, 2021.

New:

• Bound for Glory a “free kriegspiel” hack of Dungeon World for instant play, by Norbert Matausch

This is a page of resources & material for the game Dungeon World.
Hopefully, it is helpful to you. If something is missing you can email me here.
I cannot collect all the individual playbooks because there are just too many. The page here contains some compilations and other resources which list them.

New to Dungeon World? Check out the official website and the SRD section below and grab a set of rules. Then see the DW Syllabus by Yochai Gal for essential reading.

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DW Official Site & Resources

• Dungeon World Codex awesome asset for monsters
• The Dungeon World Tavern G+ community
• Official Dungeon World web page don’t forget to check the download section

DW Adventures, Dungeons, Starters & Campaign Fronts

• 20 Dungeon Starters
• 3 Fiendish Funnel Starters three new frightening Funnel Starters by Mark Tygart, perfect for kicking off a Halloween session of Funnel World
• adventure modules by Johnstone Metzger (scroll down a bit)
• adventures by Brouhaha Games
• adventures by Joe Banner (FREE) sponsored by patreon. These adventures are wonderfully weird and fantastic. Recommended.
• adventures by Osmond Arnesto (PWYW)
• Baronica a campaign front with maps and locations
• Bleakwood stories Vol. 3: Spidermouth seaside caves and man eating spiders with tools to build an illustrated map
• Black Skies, Bright Stars (FREE) campaign starter by D. Kenny
• Campaign Starter: Sailing the Sapphire Isles (FREE) by Jeremy Strandberg
• Dangerous Space Jail a one-shot adventure for 2-5 players which also contains mechanisms to simulate a race against time
• Demons & Derringers, a fantasy noir setting an inclusive, high action, fantasy noir setting for Dungeon World. It includes seven place writeups, eight NPCs, ten gangsters, three custom moves, five hot openings to throw your players into the thick of it, and a hellish compendium class
• Discern Realities Adventure Starter (FREE) by Dirk Detweiler Leichty
• Drought in Sulindal 59 page adventure
• Dungeon Starters (FREE) by Marshall Miller a form of GM prep for running the first session of a Dungeon World game
• Dungeon World: Adventure Builder by RPG Alchemy (FREE) a simple method for creating adventures
• DW G+ community category for adventures
• Ean Illiam’s Cavern Stores a campaign location about caverns
• Grim Hunt: A Dungeon World Adventure an adventure in which the heroes hunt for a spy, before they can flee the kingdom with secrets that will start a great and terrible war
• I’m On a Boat (PWYW) a seafaring adventure
• If These Stones Could Scream an adventure front foundation for Dungeon World that pits characters against an ancient force from before the age of men
• In the Hallways of Thime (FREE) one-page dungeon
• Jakabol an adventure in the foetid giant’s crypts, hidden deep in the mountains
• Juntu’s Floating Ice Hell a Dungeon World adventure across the treacherous terrain of the Ice Hell and the ships within it
• Keep on the Shining Isle (PWYW) a dungeon featuring a haunted ruin, a mystery cult and some very tempting apples, print versions available
• Kringle Force: North Pole! Christmas-themed adventure
• Lichfield a dark adventure in the city of Lichfield
• List of adventures compiled by Dragons In My House some links are out of date
• Nordmark Starter (FREE) by Asbjørn H Flø
• Perilous Deeps a dungeon writing guide
• Plague of Storms a campaign framework featuring a setting with plenty of space to fill in your own blanks, two fronts, six small dungeons, three compendium classes and a host of NPCs fighting to inherit the power of a dead demon lord
• Planarch Codex: Wintry Plane a series of short adventure seeds for Dungeon World that connect with many of the same themes as the first Planarch Codex module
• Primordial Machine an introductory adventure
• Sci-Fi Adventure Builder (FREE) by D. Kenny
• Servants of the Cinder Queen old-school D&D-like module
• Sestre Penitentiary: An Adventure Starter for Dungeon World (PWYW)
• Shadows of Umberto an urban industrial adventure
• Skies Over Danbury is the sequel to Within the Devil’s Reach, although adventures can be played separately
• Something Stirs in the Blackscale Brakes (PWYW) a campaign front by Awful Good Games
• The Carlsburg Catacombs (PWYW) premade dungeon
• The Cathedral of Light fight against an ancient evil imprisoned inside a cathedral
• The Curse of Drazhu (FREE) adventure starter by rolling on a table to answer Discern Realities questions, the follow-up adventure is The Ruined Tower of Drazhu (FREE)
• The Dark Lands: A Dark Fantasy Dungeon World Campaign a fantasy heartbreaker campaign setting
• The Deadly Tower of Derisive Doom - A Dungeon World Adventure has fronts, new enemies, multiple endings, a challenging series of encounters and scenes, interesting plot hooks, portents, handouts, maps
• The Eternal Serpent Tower adventure set in a hideous, ruined tower full of traps, puzzles, and razor-toothed poisonous phase vipers
• The Forest of Doom – a Dungeon World One-Shot (FREE) a conversion of the classic Fighting Fantasy gamebook The Forest of Doom
• The Foulness That Came to Dunfell Township - A Wretched Dungeon World Starter (PWYW) a Dungeon World adventure of Lovecraftian oozing and Cronenbergian body horror
• The Green Scar a jungle-themed adventure
• The Infernal Bone Machine journey into a Lich’s computer dimension
• The Legacy Weapon - A Dungeon World Artifact and One Shot designed for One on One play
• Thornburg (PWYW) a town were something is horribly wrong, an adventure to play in 2-4 hours
• Tygart Dungeon Starters (FREE) by Mark Tygart
• Within the Devil’s Reach as one of the first commercial adventures available for DW, it consists of a set of three introductory adventures , here is the kickstarter page

DW Blogs

• Alex Schroeder
• Awful Good Games the folks behind “A Sundered World” and more
• Burn After Running
• dieheart DW posts the DW section of this blog: reviews and actual play reports
• Dungeon World Dev by Bannister Nicholas
• Nerdwerds
• Partial Success
• Ramblings of Jacob & Delos
• Red Box Vancouver Johnstone Metzger’s blog
• steelsmiter’s gaming blog articles about mass combat etc.
• The Deep Six Delver
• Walking Mind blog by Rob Donoghue from Evil Hat

DW Misc. Resources (Supplements, Game Aids Etc.)

• 10+ Treasures for Dungeon World series magic items and advice on how to make and use them - recommended
• 6d6 Discern Realities World Building Table (FREE) by Brian Holland
• 7-3-1 Dungeon World Prep (FREE) a simple way to prep
• 8-Bit Beasties: Gorgon Slime monster manual inspired by 8-bit video games
• A Day At The Races contains moves and mechanics for handling races with vehicles/mounts in DW
• A Dungeon World Wiki (FREE) a fan-made wiki with some neat resources
• A Folio of Followers a deck of 24 NPCs for Dungeon World, created according to the follower rules written by Jeremy Strandberg for The Perilous Wilds. Each card has a full-body portrait of a follower on one side, and stats on the reverse.
• A Market in the Woods 13 monster entries, illustrated in full colour, along with a host of variations, random tables, adventures, dangers and their grim portents, custom moves, items, locations, plot hooks, secrets, and more
• A Sundered Fragment: Races & Classes new races, classes, gear etc. from the setting A Sundered World
• A Sundered World: Player Fragments a supplement for “A Sundered World”
• A small list of poisons by Dwarfare Emporium (FREE) blog post
• Abulafia Dungeon World (FREE) random generators for DW
• Ailments & Maladies (FREE) more about diseases
• Anshu’s Necronomicon new necromantic spells
• Basic Adventure Template (FREE) by Dawit Thepchatree
• Battle Between the Worlds (PWYW) a set of rules for running one-shot Dungeon Planet adventures
• Billy Bones. His Book of Nautical Nonpareils and Mechanical Marvels (FREE) a collection of 50 Seafaring Magical Items and Clockpunk Gadgets for your Dungeon World Pirates! and Clockpunk Campaign
• Campaign Playbook (PWYW) keep track of your Dungeon World campaign
• Ciel Ferma’s patreon free & open-source resources for DW
• Class Warfare a class-building supplement for DW, print version via LULU
• Cross World (Sample) (PWYW) a post-apocalyptic science fantasy supplement by Kirt A. Dankmyer
• Custom DW moves (FREE) by Colin Kierans: “Custom moves for Dungeon World enemies and monsters to make them more interesting and more dangerous.”
• DW Creature Decks a set of monster cards
• DW Die of Fate (FREE) table to help decide which GM Move to use, more info in this post
• DW Monsters Spreadsheet (FREE)
• DW Steading Generator (FREE)
• DW Travel Kit / GM Resource Binder (FREE) by Brian Holland, explains how you can stock your own GM binder for travel or home
• DW Treasure Generator (FREE)
• DW – DungeonHacks (FREE article) some rules to make the game more structured/more like D&D
• Damage Types chart (FREE) by Ray Otus
• David Schirduan’s supplements (FREE) Dungeon World GM screen, and more
• Drowning and Falling: Custom Moves (FREE) by Jeremy Strandberg
• Dungeon Races Pack 1 - Human, Elf, Dwarf, Halfling [BUNDLE]
• Dungeon World Chronicles (FREE) an alternative to Bonds
• Dungeon World DM Sheet (FREE) simple one-page sheet
• Dungeon World Fan Guide (FREE) a must-read for every new GMs and players who are not familiar with the PtbA-framework
• Dungeon World Flags (FREE) a replacements for bonds
• Dungeon World GM Flow Chart by Ciel Ferma (FREE) (landscape) or portrait format
• Dungeon World GM Resources new locations, monsters, NPCs, traps and other stuff for USD $1 each
• Dungeon World GM Screen (PDF) printable GM screen with 8 PDFs
• Dungeon World GM’s Table Screen/ art print a GM screen with art by Dungeon World cover artist Nate Marcel
• Dungeon World Hireling Cards print-and-play hireling cards
• Dungeon World Instant NPC Generator (FREE): free online generator
• Dungeon World Magical Items Minipack 1 (FREE) no-frills 4-page-PDF with magical items
• Dungeon World Monsters A-Z (FREE) by Ray Otus - all the monster stats, without the fluff
• Dungeon World Newsletter (FREE) by Colin Kierans, submissions under this Google form
• Dungeon World One-Shots (FREE) article by Guy Milner
• Dungeon World Quick Characters (FREE) web app for creating characters by G. Ralph Kuntz, MD; more info here
• Dungeon World Subreddit (FREE) don’t forget to check the sidebar for some links, I really like the list of Actual Plays
• Dungeon World Syllabus (FREE) the “best” documents for new GMs, curated by Yochai Gal and the DW community
• Dungeon World Tavern (G+) the G+ community for Dungeon World Sometimes, you find such gems like the (free) Dragonslaying on a Timetable: How To Run A Tight 4-Hour Dungeon World One-Shot by John Aegard
• Dungeon World Tools (FREE) monster finder, move finder and more by Miles Sterret
• Elusive Legends: Building Story in Tabletop RPGswhile not an exclusive Dungeon World product, Elusive Legends: Building Story in Tabletop RPGs offers a collection of concepts and ideas from screen- & novel writing which you can adapt for role-playing games. It addresses these theories from the point of view of different games, Dungeon World is one of them. - review here
• Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods (DW Version) 19 bizarre monsters
• Freebooters on the Frontier old-school wilderness supplement
• Funnel World a “0-level-character-funnel” like in Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
• GM’s Agenda & Principles (FREE) by Dawit Thepchatree
• Great Monsters of Crime a monster manual with subterranean, cave-dwelling creatures as well as those who work within the criminal underground
• Greenwood: A GM reference for forested settings (PWYW) thematic guidebook for DW Game Masters
• Happenings in Christmas Village (FREE) 25 day community collaboration of magical holiday joy for queer gamers, lots of DW stuff
• Homebrew World (FREE) rules changes and tweaks optimized for one-shots and short-run play; by Jeremy Strandberg
• How to GM Dungeon World - one page destillation (FREE) by Brian Holland
• Interactive Front Builder (FREE) automatically fills out in Front Moves and Impeding Doom, by Ciel Ferma
• Jteam Random Generator (FREE webapp)
• List of Resources for Dungeon World One Shots: good recommendations for your first session
• Magic Treasure No.1 - Dungeon World Magic Items 108 magic items
• Mechanized workflow to run DW (FREE) by Ivan Vaghi
• Microfronts (FREE) another tool for GM prep that focuses on a single scene, like a mix of encounters and Side Treks.
• Minimalist character sheet with plenty stuff for gear etc., saves on ink (FREE)
• Monster Making Cheatsheet (FREE) by Jeremy Strandberg
• Monthly Monster for DW (& Labyrinth Lord) gives you …well… monsters. Weird ones, actually, with great illustrations. You can get the monsters from July 2014 onwards for free. For older creations you need to become a supporter.
• Mounted Combat “will give your knight errants, halfling scouts, and proud dragonriders everything you need.”
• Nerdwerds Blog has a huge list of resources but some of it is out of date, broken or behind a paywall. Nonetheless, worth a look.
• Number Appearing (FREE) a supplement for playing monsters in their endless battle against marauding adventurers
• On-the-Fly Dungeon Generation Using The Perilous Wilds (FREE)
• One Shot World (FREE) by Yochai Gal; a hack of Dungeon World, built specifically for One Shots and short campaigns
• One-Sheet-Supplements for DW by LKG - as far as I can see it’s mostly some monsters
• One-page reference for the Danger Types with their Impulses and GM Moves (FREE) by Brian Holland
• One-roll Generators (FREE) by Brian Holland
• Overton a steading suitable for a party of player characters to use as a base camp for exploring the surrounding area
• Perilous Almanacs a collection of six “almanacs"for Dungeon World, written using the guidelines set down in The Perilous Wilds, and adapted in unique ways by each of the six contributors
• Perilous Journeys “a set of rules, tools, and tips for exploration and adventure in the wilderness”
• Pirates! A Dungeon World Sourcebook rules for naval combat,black powder weapons and giant sea monsters, a Sea Dog class playbook
• Poisons, Spices, & Vices For Dungeon World
• RPGenerators for Dungeon World (FREE) simple online generator for characters, moves, monsters etc.
• Random Generator & SRD (FREE) by Aaron Steed, loads offline after you’ve visited the site
• [Running Dungeon World for New Adventurers (FREE)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gIM7GX1FjsYBzJIwDlj6eJxzoXivR5xNt_puYMurbSw/edit ‘Running Dungeon World
• Sci-Fi GM Screen (FREE) a one-stop, one-page resource for sci-fi Dungeon World
• Single Sheet Dungeon World Primer (FREE) by Matt Horam
• Single-Roll Damage Hack (FREE) by Yochai Gal
• Space Wurm vs. Moonicorn a science fantasy supplement
• Standard Magic Items (FREE) by Yochai Gal
• Strongholds - A Dungeon World Guidebook guidelines to build strongholds
• Take on… different supplements for magic items, establishments etc.
• Terrors of the Ancient World a monster manual in the vein of the Monthly Monster (see above)
• The Fourth Page - Monster (FREE) a random monster generator
• The Grab Bag of Dungeon World Equipment Tags part 1 useful list with new and old tags to flavor your game
• The Grab Bag of Dungeon World Equipment Tags part 2 useful list with new and old tags to flavor your game
• The Histories, Volume I: L’Empereur’s Salon swashbuckling flair for DW
• The Inexhaustive List of Dungeon World Questions (FREE) by Brennan O’Brien
• The Perilous Wilds Survival Kit reference material for the “Perilous Wilds”
• The Whispering Deck (FREE) an attempt at a “deck of many things”, Dungeon World style, by Lester Ward
• Three Suggestions… series meant to give players and GMs some interesting and roleplay-provoking ideas
• Tim Franzke’s material and here is his patreon, check out the Animal Companion FAQ or Things to do in the first session
• Traps in Dungeon World (FREE) advice by Jeremy Strandberg
• Truncheon World (PWYW) a “truncated Dungeon World” with rearranged material for easier referencing softcover via DTRPG or via LULU
• Vestige Magic: Moves and Compendium Classes for Dungeon World inspiration from the Tome of Magic for D&D 3.5 and its different sources of magic
• Wen: A GM Reference for Dungeon World, Volume 2: Cities (PWYW) thematic guide
• Wicked Fantasy Companion John Wick kickstarted a Pathfinder campaign “that puts a twist on the “classic” fantasy races” (DTRPG link). The Companion is an addition with a Dungeon World hack.
• Wizard-Spawned Insanities 13 monster entries, illustrated in full colour, along with a host of variations, random tables, adventures, dangers and their grim portents, custom moves, items, locations, plot hooks, secrets, and more for New Adventurers (FREE) (Last updated February 22, 2018 6:27 am)’) a free guide fby Philipp Wessels

DW Playbooks & Sheets

• 2-page PDF for the official compendium classes (FREE) by Dawit Thepchatree
• 4x2 NPC Sheets (FREE) by Ciel Ferma
• a list of free playbooks at G+, compiled by James Myers some of them are earlier versions of commercial playbooks
• Big List of Dungeon World Classes (FREE) Google Docs Spreadsheet with lots of links to free and commercial playbooks
• The Big List of Dungeon World Playbooks (FREE) 176 playbooks and counting; compiled by Yochai Gal
• Complete List of Dungeon World Classes reddit post
• Consolidated One-page Versions of the Dungeon World Core Class Playbooks (FREE) by Michael Siebold
• Dungeon World Alternative Character Sheet (PWYW)
• Dungeon World First Session Cheat Sheet Card - full page version (FREE), by Tomer Gurantz; here is a 3x5 card version
• Dungeon World free base classes and moves
• Dungeon World Lore And Lords Pack (PWYW) five new playbooks and a compendium class
• Dungeon World Play Kit (PWYW) fully form-fillable, booklet size Play Kit
• Dungeon World Quick Start Pack (PWYW) an easy-to-use introduction to Dungeon World with simplified classes and guidelines
• Dungeon World Secrets and Sorcery Pack (PWYW) seven new playbooks
• Dungeon World War and Wonders Pack (PWYW) seven new playbooks
• Form-Fillable Character Sheet PDFs (FREE) pretty fillable PDFs
• GM Reference Sheet (FREE) double-sided, legal size, four-column reference sheet by Aaron M. Sturgill
• Google Docs Character Sheets (FREE) by Mattie Casper and Devin Ekins
• Johnstone Metzger PWYW classes
• Keys for Dungeon World (FREE) Keys like in Lady Blackbird or The Shadow of Yesterday; by Yochai Gal
• List of DW playbooks, compiled by Dragons in My House not complete though
• List of DW playbooks, compiled by Jeremy Friesen again, not complete
• Maezar’s Dungeon World Sheets (FREE) Dungeon World printables with old school fantasy flair
• Maezar’s Freebooters Sheets (FREE) for “Freebooters on the Frontier” (see above)
• Minimal Alternate Playbooks Plus
• Minimal Compendium Classes (PWYW)
• Minimal GM Companion Pack (PWYW)
• Minimal Playbooks Plus minimalist playbooks with enhancements
• Minimalist Alternative Dungeon World Playbooks
• Minimalist Playbooks by Brennen Reece: a reformat of the original classes for USD $3, a preview can be found here
• Neceros’s Character Sheet (FREE) minimalist character sheet
• New Bonds, Alignments, & Race Moves (FREE) by Jason “Hyathin” Shea
• Old-school flavored Dungeon World Playbook Set by Miguel Angel Espinoza, USD $4
• Planarch Codex: Path of Ghosts a free compendium class “offering 4 moves for thieves and assassins, including specialized moves for sneaking and climbing”
• Play Sheets by Stefan Grambart (FREE) portrait-formatted playbooks, basic moves, fronts & GM moves
• Playkit Plus (PWYW) a redesign of the Dungeon World playkit with a new look, expanded class racial and alignment options, reworked bonds, and more!
• [Some custom classes (FREE)](http://jonathan.pearce.name/dungeonworld/index.php?ref= “Classes””)
• The Blank - A free use blank playbook for Dungeon World (PWYW) blank, editable playbook, to be used in creating your own classes
• The GM Playbook (FREE) by Dawit Thepchatree
• The Hireling/GM Playbook/Combat & Equipment Playbooks (FREE) by Dawit Thepchatree
• The Video Game Class Pack - A set of three Dungeon World Playbooks (PWYW) video game themed classes
• Ultra Compact Dungeon World GM Screen (PWYW) a highly compacted and summarized GM screen

DW Podcasts & Streams

• Comic Strip AP actual play by The Gauntlet
• Discern Realities weekly discussion podcast
• Play To Find Out a podcast with GM advice etc.
• Roll Dice And Cry an actual play podcast
• Spout Lore an actual play podcast for Dungeon World with inexperienced players
• The Dungeoneers Podcast actual play podcast
• We Hunt the Keepers! actual play podcast by The Gauntlet

DW Settings & Standalone Games

• A Sundered World a fantastic, kind of gonzo campaign setting
• Adventures on Dungeon Planet allows you to play science-fiction in the pulpy sci-fi of the 50s/60s. It contains new rules and modifications tailored to the genre like spaceships, new character classes and races and rules for aliens and science fantasy monsters. print version available via LULU
• Ancient Worlds: Atisi a Bronze Age RPG setting for Dungeon World inspired by Egyptian Mythology
• Bound for Glory a “free kriegspiel” hack of Dungeon World for instant play, by Norbert Matausch
• DW Lite (FREE) a concise version of DW by Joe Banner
• Dungeon World Advanced (v0.2) (FREE) by Daniel Ries
• Dungeonhearts: Youth on the Borderlands a mash-up of Monsterhearts and Dungeon World
• Dungeons Roleplaying Game (FREE) a simple game inspired by DW
• Fourth World (FREE) an extensive hack to run Dungeon World in the setting of Earthdawn by Lester Ward
• Grim World a dark fantasy supplement by Boldly Games
• Inverse World is intended to be more fantastic with floating islands, sky captains and a captured god at the center of the world
• Iron Edda: World of Metal and Bone a Nordic/Mecha setting for DW
• No Country for Old Kobolds a DW hack for playing kobold champions which is due in 2015
• Pirate World a pirate supplement
• Planarch Codex: Dark Heart of the Dreamer a broad-strokes setting toolkit by Jonathan Walton
• Ptolus Dungeon World (FREE) a simple hack to run Dungeon World in the setting of Ptolus by Lester Ward
• Servants of Necros (FREE) a mini game where you assume the roles of evil henchman; by Ryan Peterson
• Sixth World Shadowrun hack by Chris Clouser and Tanner Yea
• Steam World (Core Book) victorian sci-fi (steampunk) setting
• The Boughs setting: a Weird Fantasy masup of Dredd, The Raid, Boy Scouts and Fury Road
• The Cold Ruins of Lastlife play undead adventurers trying to find something to fight for—the past or the future—in a cold and dreadful world
• The Company of Monsters (FREE draft) play the monsters and kill the murderhobo adventurers invading the wilderness, reasonably compatible with DW; by Johnstone Metzger
• The Green Law of Varkith a setting book where you the members of a newly formed guild in Varkith, trying to make your way as the little fish in a city full of predators
• The Last Days of Anglekite a Dying Earth-style weird fantasy setting
• The Realms of Rothaen (Kickstarter) dark pulp setting with modern story elements
• World of Dungeons (FREE) what if Dungeon World was the latest edition of a game that’s existed since 1979? The first edition would have looked something like World of Dungeons.
• World of Dungeons Single Sheet Edition by Matt Horam
• Worlds of Adventures (FREE) an ongoing project to present a simplified, tightened ruleset for Dungeon World that builds on the strengths and themes of the original game, while incorporating newer ideas and designs made popular since the game’s original release

DW System Reference Documents

• a minimalist github SRD (FREE) by Andrew Codispoti which might be the best for mobile devices
• book.dwgazetteer.com (FREE) a clean looking SRD
• Dungeon World SRD (FREE) in the style of other popular sites like the Pathfinder SRD
• Random Generator & SRD (FREE) by Aaron Steed, loads offline after you’ve visited the site
• Roll20 Dungeon World Compendium (FREE) searchable compendium with rules and other resources

DW Zines

• Grim Portents (FREE) e-zine
• Plundergrounds by Ray Otus, some issues are FREE
• Session Zero (PWYW) by Brian Holland
• Sword Breaker (PWYW) digital fanzine centered around different settings
• The Gauntlet: Codex monthly RPG zine, not purely for DW