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The Perilous Wilds
The Perilous Wilds combines Dungeon World's approach to collaborative world-building with the old-school RPG reliance on random tables to generate content on the fly, woven together by modifications to the original Dungeon World travel moves. The main differences between the use of tables in The Perilous Wilds and their use in older RPGs is an emphasis on exploration and discovery over combat encounters, and the baked-in methodology of using randomized results as prompts rather than facts, to be interpreted during play.
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About the author
Jason Lutes
53 books227 followersJason Lutes was born in New Jersey in 1967 and grew up reading American superhero and western comics until a trip to France at age nine introduced him to the world of "bandes dessinées." In the late 1970s he discovered Heavy Metal magazine and the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, both of which proved major influences on his creative development.
Lutes graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration in 1991. While at RISD, among the many new comics he encountered were Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine and Chester Brown's Yummy Fur, which together inspired him to start publishing minicomics under the imprint "Penny Dreadful."
Upon graduation in 1991, he moved to Seattle, where he spent several years working as a dishwasher and assistant art director at Fantagraphics Books. His "big break" came in 1993, when he began drawing a weekly comics page called "Jar of Fools" for The Stranger, Seattle's alternative paper. By 1995 he had become the paper's art director, but upon collecting and self-publishing Jar of Fools in 1996, he left The Stranger and made the leap to becoming a full-time cartoonist.
In the handful of productive years following that decision, Lutes began the comic book series Berlin, set in the twilight years of the Weimar Republic.
Lutes currently lives in Vermont with his partner and two children, where he teaches comics at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
He still tries to play Dungeons & Dragons once a week with friends.
Lutes graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration in 1991. While at RISD, among the many new comics he encountered were Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine and Chester Brown's Yummy Fur, which together inspired him to start publishing minicomics under the imprint "Penny Dreadful."
Upon graduation in 1991, he moved to Seattle, where he spent several years working as a dishwasher and assistant art director at Fantagraphics Books. His "big break" came in 1993, when he began drawing a weekly comics page called "Jar of Fools" for The Stranger, Seattle's alternative paper. By 1995 he had become the paper's art director, but upon collecting and self-publishing Jar of Fools in 1996, he left The Stranger and made the leap to becoming a full-time cartoonist.
In the handful of productive years following that decision, Lutes began the comic book series Berlin, set in the twilight years of the Weimar Republic.
Lutes currently lives in Vermont with his partner and two children, where he teaches comics at the Center for Cartoon Studies.
He still tries to play Dungeons & Dragons once a week with friends.
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May 30, 2019
Jason Lutes’s Dungeon World supplements are among the best available and they will all add meaningfully to your collection and to your play.
The Perilous Wilds is a supplement to expand on and improve the Dungeon World systems for “overland adventures.” In it, there are easy rules for quickly and easily creating a whole swath of terrain for adventures, either alone or as a group. It includes a fantastic table for randomly creating names for features and locations as well. If this were the sole feature of the supplement, it would be worth the $8 cost on DriveThru. Instead, you also get new rules for creating followers and hirelings and specific moves for finding them, having them do what they’re good at, and asking them to do things they probably don’t want to do. The booklet also includes new moves for traveling long distances over land, complete with suggested GM moves to make. There are additional compendium classes appropriate for the kinds of adventures that this supplement helps create, and there are consolidated tables for creating monsters and their treasures, which basically takes the information from the Dungeon World book and presents in on a single, easily-referenced page.
My favorite feature, however, are all the tables available for whipping up discoveries, creatures, steadings, and whole dungeons. Lutes knows how to make a table that gives you something inspiring with each roll so that you can create creatures from whole cloth on the fly with very little disruption. The dungeon creation tables give you all the necessary information you need to create a dungeon with a past, a purpose, and a cohesive set of thematic elements. This is top-notch material, and I would recommend it to every one who plays the game. In an ideal world, this material would be included in the core book.
Keny Widjaja’s art throughout the booklet is beautiful and evocative. That art combined with the layout makes for an incredibly pleasing artifact. I wish I owned a print copy in addition to the PDF copy I have.
My only complaint is that I want to have all the tables at my fingertips when I GM. I have created my own printouts that group things together as best I can, but I haven’t figured out the perfect way to do it. Really, this is not a fair complaint, because I essentially want a GM screen with all these table easily found and read, and to do so, I would need a 3-foot high, 4-panel monstrosity—because every table is that good.
The Perilous Deeps is a collection of dungeons created using the system presented in The Perilous Wilds and fleshed out. You can use them as dungeons in your own adventure or as inspiration. I used them primarily to see the various ways that you can gather and present the material that comes together when you use the dungeon-creation system. It’s all a very clever way to be both prepared and ready to improvise at the table. This is not a necessary supplement, but it is useful and high quality and well worth the money if it’s what you are looking for.
The Servants of the Cinder Queen is a stand-alone dungeon created by Jason Lutes. It is a good dungeon and an excellent example of the art form. Like all Lutes other work, this is a high-quality product with wonderful art and a professional layout. There are some inspiring moves and magic items in it, and I found myself taking notes and writing in the margins with excitement as I read the various room moves that trigger as PCs explore an area.
I wouldn’t hesitate to get anything published by Lampblack & Brimstone.
The Perilous Wilds is a supplement to expand on and improve the Dungeon World systems for “overland adventures.” In it, there are easy rules for quickly and easily creating a whole swath of terrain for adventures, either alone or as a group. It includes a fantastic table for randomly creating names for features and locations as well. If this were the sole feature of the supplement, it would be worth the $8 cost on DriveThru. Instead, you also get new rules for creating followers and hirelings and specific moves for finding them, having them do what they’re good at, and asking them to do things they probably don’t want to do. The booklet also includes new moves for traveling long distances over land, complete with suggested GM moves to make. There are additional compendium classes appropriate for the kinds of adventures that this supplement helps create, and there are consolidated tables for creating monsters and their treasures, which basically takes the information from the Dungeon World book and presents in on a single, easily-referenced page.
My favorite feature, however, are all the tables available for whipping up discoveries, creatures, steadings, and whole dungeons. Lutes knows how to make a table that gives you something inspiring with each roll so that you can create creatures from whole cloth on the fly with very little disruption. The dungeon creation tables give you all the necessary information you need to create a dungeon with a past, a purpose, and a cohesive set of thematic elements. This is top-notch material, and I would recommend it to every one who plays the game. In an ideal world, this material would be included in the core book.
Keny Widjaja’s art throughout the booklet is beautiful and evocative. That art combined with the layout makes for an incredibly pleasing artifact. I wish I owned a print copy in addition to the PDF copy I have.
My only complaint is that I want to have all the tables at my fingertips when I GM. I have created my own printouts that group things together as best I can, but I haven’t figured out the perfect way to do it. Really, this is not a fair complaint, because I essentially want a GM screen with all these table easily found and read, and to do so, I would need a 3-foot high, 4-panel monstrosity—because every table is that good.
The Perilous Deeps is a collection of dungeons created using the system presented in The Perilous Wilds and fleshed out. You can use them as dungeons in your own adventure or as inspiration. I used them primarily to see the various ways that you can gather and present the material that comes together when you use the dungeon-creation system. It’s all a very clever way to be both prepared and ready to improvise at the table. This is not a necessary supplement, but it is useful and high quality and well worth the money if it’s what you are looking for.
The Servants of the Cinder Queen is a stand-alone dungeon created by Jason Lutes. It is a good dungeon and an excellent example of the art form. Like all Lutes other work, this is a high-quality product with wonderful art and a professional layout. There are some inspiring moves and magic items in it, and I found myself taking notes and writing in the margins with excitement as I read the various room moves that trigger as PCs explore an area.
I wouldn’t hesitate to get anything published by Lampblack & Brimstone.
March 2, 2019
Unas cuantas reglas utiles para organizar tus ideas para una partida de Dungeon World.
December 30, 2018
Ce supplément pour Dungeon World est un must have pour qui veut créer sa région de a a z. Conseils multiples, points de règles revus. C'est une superbe boîte à outils pour qui veut faire de l'exploration un des aspects principaux de sa campagne. Et c'est largement réutilisable avec d'autres systèmes de jeu, la part de Dungeon World étant au final assez congrue.
September 6, 2018
An excellent companion to Dungeon World, perhaps the only I'd consider a must have. Likely helpful for those running games in other systems as well, particularly the rules for collaborative world building and improvised dungeons.
November 1, 2022
Suplemento magnífico para completar las partidas de Dungeon World.
June 28, 2023
Used the tables herein to help with overland hex crawling. Great content, great art, a superb supplement!
June 5, 2025
Dungeon World is not my jam, but there is enough system neutral hooks to spice up any game.
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