It's been a bit over a month since the DW2 Alpha publicly released, and we've been continuing to playtest the game both internally and alongside the community. We've learned a lot about the game - how it reads and plays at a variety of tables, how it feels after a single session vs several sessions, what works, needs a bit of refinement, or needs a total redesign.

On a side note, if you want to tell us what you think of the game, please tell us at https://dungeon-world.com/dw2feedback

With that in mind, we're ready to change things up for the next update. We've stated several times that this is an alpha, nothing is final. While we will do some refinement with each update, our primary focus right now is experimentation. For the first Alpha, we pushed the "fantasy adventure PbtA" design as far as we felt we could, but in the next update we're pushing a different aspect of the game.

Alpha vRed: "The Redungeoning"

Our goal with the next update is to reintroduce many D&D aesthetics, terms, and mechanics while maintaining the current core of the game. (Internally we're calling this the "how many cakes can we simultaneously have and eat" playtest).

Here are the biggest changes:

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