Big List of Dungeon World Playbooks

Playbook	Source	Cost	Author	Description	Category	Tags	Added	Reviews
The Abjurer	Mike Wice	paid	Mike Wice	The Abjurer weaves spells of protection to shield himself and his allies from the horrible things that adventurers often find themselves facing.	magic user	specialist	01-16-18	0
The Accursed Scholar	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy		magic user	the accursed	02-11-18	0
The Aeromancer	Role Cast Die Productions	paid	Marlin Rooke	...rain havoc upon your enemies while postering the oppertunities of you allies by invoking elemental air magics.	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Ageless	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You are an immortal adventure who has learned to escape death’s grasp and avoid the cruel hand of physically ageing.	magic user	the ancient past	01-14-18	1
The Alchemist	Vectoreal Gaming	pwyw	JT Seusoff	A new Dungeon World playbook based around explosions and dangerous compounds.	magic user		01-19-18	0
The Alchemist	Rite Publishing	paid	Alex Putnam		magic user		01-12-18	0
The All Powerful	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You were born at the dawn of time along with the gods. Each use of your powers brings you closer to exhausting this irreplaceable energy which one day may fully run out.	magic user	the ancient past	01-14-18	0
The Allomancer	Technical Grimoire	free	David Schirduan	Based on the 'Mistborn Trilogy' by Brandon Sanderson	magic user	specialist	01-16-18	0
The Arcane Duelist	Timothy Schroeder	paid	Timothy Schroeder	The arcane duelist weaves magic and martial skill together to form a style entirely his or her own. Acquire deadly new techniques, then combine them in new ways at a moment's inspiration to make th...	fighter, magic user		01-14-18	0
The Arcane Summoner	Timothy Schroeder	paid	Timothy Schroeder	The summoner binds and controls fantastical creatures, designing individual summons from a list of over 20 traits.	magic user		01-14-18	0
The Artificer	google+	free	Giovanni Lanza		magic user	D&D	01-13-18	0
The Artificer	Liberi Gothica Games	paid	Vel Mini	Use gadgets. Make your own companions.	magic user	alternate	01-11-18	1
The Auramancer	Dwarfare	paid	Victor Hurtado, Mark Weis	You, Auramancer, you have the power of the human heart. The ebb and flow of thoughts and feelings, those are your true calling. To help the sick recover both physically and mentally, or perhaps ...	magic user		01-15-18	0
The Awakened Mage		free	Urdnot Rekt		magic user		01-16-18	0
The Binder	google+	free	Yochai Gal	A magic user that "binds" various universal concepts, ideas and elements to themselves, in exchange for great power.	magic user		01-10-18	0
The Blood Mage	google+	free	Anthony Giovannetti	Part of Anthony Giovannetti's hack of the Dungeon World core playbooks	magic user	alternate	01-13-18	0
The Branded	google+	free	Cameron Burns	A replacement for the Immolator.	magic user	alternate	01-13-18	0
The Caller		free	Unknown	Inspired by Pokemon's Ash and Rydia from Final Fantasy 2; captures the images of monsters and then summons them.	magic user	unattributed	01-16-18	0
The Changeling	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	By either means, you have been raised in the fairy world of glamorous magics and alien scenery.	magic user	forsaken magic	01-14-18	0
The Channeler	Boldly Games	paid	Trenton Kennedy, Greyoak	Unleash raw magic if your flesh can bear it.	magic user	grim world	01-13-18	0
The Charred	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	A poor individual who has been victim of an unnatural flame that has burned them strait to their soul.	magic user	forsaken magic, multi-school	01-14-18	0
The Chronomancer	Dwarfare	paid	Victor Hurtado	Time. For the common-folk time moves in only one direction: forward but for a chronomancer, time has a more fluid interpretation.	magic user		01-15-18	0
The Clock Mage	Liberi Gothica Games	paid	Vel Mini	The Clock Mage is built around time control. You have no magic but the ability to move differently, see differently.	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Clockpunk	Street Rat Games	paid	Street Rat Games	Time controlling mechanic wizard.	magic user		01-13-18	0
The Conjurer	Mike Wice	paid	Mike Wice	...bend space to teleport creatures and objects, create places in the folds between worlds, make an interdimensional sanctuary for allies, and traverse great distances in the blink of an eye.	magic user	specialist	01-16-18	0
The Curseburdened	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	It was going all so well till you and your original party disturbed a seal containing all of the worst curses throughout the world’s history.	magic user	the ancient past	01-14-18	0
The Diviner	Mike Wice	paid	Mike Wice	...insight, prediction of the future, sensory projection to far away places, sight through illusions and deception, and delving the most secretive minds.	magic user	specialist	01-16-18	0
The Djinn	Jordan Prokosch	paid	Jordan Prokosch	...about being a classy and cunning Elemental Lord.	magic user, monstrous		01-13-18	0
The Dragon Mage	Liberi Gothica Games	paid	Vel Mini	The Dragon Mage is all about the power and fury of the dragons. You emulate them, mimick them, and in some ways, you may even surpass them.	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Dueling Wizard	Street Rat Games	free	Peter Louw	Harry Potter-inspired wizard.	magic user	non-vancian, multi-school	01-13-18	0
The Ectomancer	google+	free	Ben Halbert	A non-evil necromancer.	magic user	necromancy	01-16-18	0
The Elegist	google+	free	Stephen Karnes		magic user		01-31-18	0
The Elementalist	reddit	free	Chris Wilson	A Last Airbender style elementalist.	magic user		01-17-18	0
The Elementalist	Red Box Vancouver	pwyw	Johnstone Metzger	...a magician who specializes in controlling the elements.	magic user	johnstones dw classes	01-16-18	1
The Enchanter	Mike Wice	paid	Mike Wice	...manipulating the minds and emotions of others. They wield magic to change emotions, incept suggestions into minds, confuse enemies, erase memories, and dominate wills.	magic user	specialist	01-16-18	0
The Enchanter	Peter Johansen	pwyw	Peter Johansen	A skilled magical craftsman, able to weave magic into mundane items to accomplish any goal.	magic user	secrets and sorcery pack, multischool	01-15-18	0
The Entombed Sorcerer	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You are an ancient sorcerer mummified and put to rest in your tomb.	monstrous, magic user	undead conspiracies, undead	01-19-18	0
The Fading Soul	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You have had seemingly holy powers of creating angelic lights and other unsettling feats.	magic user	forsaken magic	01-14-18	0
The Failed Arcanist	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	This class operates through failing your rolls just as much as passing them. Expect a hilariously lethal time.	magic user	sorcerous mishaps	02-11-18	0
The Familiar	google+	free	Barrett Alexander		magic user		01-16-18	0
The Geister	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	A daring individual who has permitted a disembodied specter into themselves, sharing their body with the entity in exchange for being granted the utilization of the baleful powers of the departed.	magic user	forsaken magic	01-14-18	0
The Hack Magician	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You rely on a razor-sharp cunning that you can lethally exploit against foes who leave themselves open to you.	magic user	sorcerous mishaps	02-11-18	0
The Headhunter	Awful Good Games	paid	David Guyll, Melissa Fisher	As you level up you can use your heads in a bunch of new ways; take their eyes, wear their faces, use them as ranged weapons, intimidate others, shrink them so you can carry more around, give t...	magic user	shaman	01-15-18	0
The Hexblade	Barf Forth Apocalyptica	free	johnthedm7000	You know a deeper truth; real capital-H Heroes don't make their own luck. They take it.	magic user		02-22-18	0
The Hydromancer	Role Cast Die Productions	pwyw	Marlin Rooke	Bounce from healing to freezing to armour removal and damage as you blend the different states of water to stack effects with a greater emphasis on passive spellcasting making you a valuable team p...	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Illusionist	Mike Wice	paid	Mike Wice	...misdirection, deception of the senses, tricks of the light, and the horrors of the dark. The Illusionist manifests illusions so powerfully exquisite or tremulously terrifying that they become da...	magic user	specialist	01-16-18	0
The Illusionist	Bryce Duzan	paid	Bryce Duzan		magic user	specialist	01-16-18	0
The Immolator Core	DW Core	free	Core		magic user	vanilla	01-10-18	0
The Inscribed	Neceros	free	Billy Barnes	A rune priest capable of inscribe glyphs unto objects, places, or people for great effect.	magic user, mage, cleric	Neceros, rune priest, glyphs, sigils	06-27-19	0
The Kineticist	Neceros	free	Billy Barnes	Control elemental magics, honing in on one or two elements to really master	magic user, mage	Neceros, elemental, kinetic	06-27-19	0
The Knowledge Eater	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You can also eat memories and information out of other people’s heads if the get too close. Have fun.	magic user	sorcerous mishaps	02-11-18	0
The Krampus	google+	free	Barrett Alexander		magic user		01-16-18	0
The Krasis	Dwarfare	paid	Victor Hurtado, Mark Weiss		magic user		04-20-18	0
The Lantern	Liberi Gothica Games	paid	Vel Mini, Brandon Schmelz	The Green Lantern in an upside-down world.	magic user	inverse world, setting-dependent	01-10-18	0
The Lich	Neceros	free	Billy Barnes	Create and command an undead army, use powerful necromantic magic, and generally be a bad guy	magic user, mage, monstrous	Neceros, undead, necromancy, lich	06-27-19	0
The Lich	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	All the corpses you come across in your campaign are merely a source to fuel your future undead army.	monstrous, magic user	undead conspiracies, undead	01-19-18	0
The Living Star	Awful Good Games	paid	David Guyll, Melissa Fisher	You might look like a human, but you are something much, much more, though neither you nor anyone else is quite sure what. Your body burns with a mysterious power, a power that lets you shine as...	magic user, monstrous	multi-school	01-16-18	0
The Mage	Dwarfare	paid	Victor Hurtado	Mages are wielders of magic that with the correct incantation and gestures can cast powerful spells.	magic user		01-15-18	0
The Mage	Liberi Gothica Games	free	Vel Mini	The playbooks in this packet are replacement classes for the Cleric, Paladin, and Wizard, replacing them with the Priest, Templar, and Mage, respectively.	magic user	alternate	01-11-18	0
The Magic User		free	Daniel Backus		magic user		01-13-18	0
The Magician	google+	free	Cameron Burns	An alternative to the Vancian Wizard trope, this playbook lets the player create the spells they cast.	magic user		01-13-18	0
The Mask Master	Peter Johansen	pwyw	Peter Johansen	A talented actor and imitator who can duplicate the abilities of others.	magic user, thief	war and wonders pack	01-10-18	0
The Masked Mage	Liberi Gothica Games	paid	Vel Mini	The Masked Mage is an illusionist of the highest calibre. She can craft illusions, reveal additional truths about the world, and people find they just trust her, as a natural state of being.	magic user		01-16-18	1
The Medusa	katamoiran	free	Tam H	A Medusa. Like, from mythology.	magic user		09-11-18	0
The Mentor	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You are the wise and enigmatic senior of great understanding who oversees the training and guidance of new adventures out on their quests across the realm.	magic user	fate of the world	01-15-18	0
The Metallurgist	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	...you become more entwined with your new magic than you have intended to, turning your skin to metal and infusing your skin with the armor you wear.	magic user	forsaken magic	01-14-18	0
The Monster Hunter	google+	free	Robert Doe		magic user		01-16-18	0
The Mutable	katamoiran	free	Tam H	A wild mage who learns the magic of monsters by subjecting himself to them, and who is always on the verge of a magical explosion.	magic user		01-13-18	0
The Namer	Fünhaver Industries	paid	Andri Erlingsson	...commands the true names of the world to alter reality itself.	magic user		01-14-18	0
The Necromancer	reddit	paid	CloakNStagger	Based on the Grim Portents Necromancer Compendium Class.	magic user		01-19-18	0
The Necromancer	Grim Portents	free	Mike Burnett	Power is easy, as long as you can pay the price. And for this kind of power, you’ve long been comfortable with the price. It’s not like those other magicks the mages practice … it’s faster, easi...	magic user	zine	01-14-18	0
The Necromancer	Boldly Games	paid	Trenton Kennedy, Greyoak	Raise the dead to do your bidding.	magic user	grim world	01-13-18	1
The Observer	Jordan Prokosch	paid	Jordan Prokosch	...being a giant floating eye that is a true master of the arcane!	magic user, monstrous		01-13-18	0
The Oracle	Dwarfare	paid	Victor Hurtado	Seer, medium, psychic, augur, diviner, channeller, soothsayer, oracle… people will call you by many names and they will love and hate you for your gifts but you must always remember one thing: I...	magic user		01-15-18	0
The Ostheomancer	Duccio Mondanelli	paid	Duccio Mondanelli	...a master of bones, flesh and blood transmutation. A weird hybrid of magic and physical prowess, this isn't a class for the weak of stomach.	magic user, fighter		01-19-18	0
The Pagan	google+	free	Barrett Alexander	A mage who uses the favor of a dark patron, dark curses, and potions to affect the world.	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Pixie	Jordan Prokosch	paid	Jordan Prokosch	...Whether you focus on manipulation, magical powers, or deviousness, [...] be able to outfly and outwit the competition...	magic user, monstrous		01-13-18	0
The Prophet	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	Use your visions of things that may come to warn your fellow adventures before it it’s too late or see great tragedies about to befall the world.	magic user	fate of the world	01-15-18	0
The Psion		free	Billy Barnes	Become the master of telekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, and power the psychic weave with your mind.	psion, magic user	Neceros	04-20-19	0
The Psion	Something Awful	free	Tombsgrave	A generalist psion.	magic user		02-24-18	0
The Psychic	google+	free	Barret Alexander		magic user		01-16-18	0
The Pyromancer	Role Cast Die Productions	pwyw	Marlin Rooke	...hyper offensive magic to cause serious damage over time. Become one with fire as your mana and health mix together creating the battlefield beast that has sorely been missing from the Dungeon Wo...	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Red Mage	reddit	free	bread_wood	A mix of fighter, mage, and cleric; the red mage of final fantasy.	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Relic Bearer	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You possessed ancient magical treasure from around the world that have still maintained their use to this date. You can choose from a wide and colorful range of relics to own which to aid your part...	magic user	the ancient past	01-14-18	0
The Saturated	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	Sharing much of the same logic train as the Knowledge Eater, what if you could obtain magical powers by just physically consuming raw magic?	magic user	sorcerous mishaps	02-11-18	0
The Scarecrow	Dwarfare	paid	Victor Hurtado	Those who can wield such wicked magic animate scarecrows to serve as guardians and wreak fear upon those who dare to trespass their lands	magic user		01-15-18	0
The Shade	google+	free	Josh Conway	Kinda like the D&D 4e Warlock.	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Shade	Dwarfare	paid	Victor Hurtado	Shades devour darkness by killing their opponents or by simply absorbing it, which they use to fuel their dark powers.	magic user		01-15-18	0
The Shaper		free	Unknown		magic user	unattributed	01-16-18	0
The Shinobi	Duccio Mondanelli	paid	Duccio Mondanelli	Magical ninja.	magic user, thief		01-19-18	0
The Sorcerer	Meromorph Games	paid	Kevin Bishop	...meant to complement the existing class playbooks, while providing an alternative for players who want to try a mage class that doesn't use spellbooks or learn magic by study.	magic user		01-15-18	0
The Sorcerer	google+	paid	Adrian Thoen	...channel your constantly shifting emotions into powerful, wild magic with unusual results. So open up your heart, get in touch with your emotions, and let the magic fly!	magic user	inverse world	01-14-18	0
The Sorcerer	google+	free	Yochai Gal	An alternative spellcasting playbook to the Wizard, that doesn't require spell memorization. Also makes Julienne Fries!	magic user		01-10-18	0
The Sorcerer	reddit	free	Pixie1001	An elementally-based variant of Jacob Randolph's mage.	magic user	Jacob Randolph's mage variant	01-10-18	0
The Soulknife		free	Billy Barnes	Summon a razor-edged blade using the power of your mind, emanate psychic powers, and dominate weak minds.	fighter, psion, magic user	Neceros	04-20-19	0
The Spellcaster		free	Trevor Cashmore		magic user	multi-school, non-vancian	01-16-18	0
The Spellslinger	google+	paid	Adrian Thoen	It's a combination of fast and deadly wand combat, and wild west lone gunman antics.	magic user	wild west	01-14-18	0
The Spellsword	Liberi Gothica Games	paid	Vel Mini	She is a warrior whose weapon of power grants her access to several mighty spells and abilities.	magic user, fighter		01-15-18	0
The Squirrelmancer	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You are a deranged hermit obsessed with squirrels.	magic user	wrath of the wild	01-13-18	0
The Star Mage	Liberi Gothica Games	paid	Vel Mini	The Star Mage lets you play as a creature from beyond the stars, with the strange and magical powers that come from your bizarre nature. You manipulate space with ease, creating small holes in the ...	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Street Rat	Street Rat Games	paid	James Shields	He has some moves similar to that of a thief, but he is an urban acrobat, a parkour athlete, a social hacker, a devious fighter, and above all, a survivor. And he has just enough urban magic to giv...	thief, magic user		01-13-18	0
The Swordmage	Awful Good Games	paid	David Guyll, Melissa Fisher	Rather than specialize, you weave both spell and sword into a deadly new art. You can hold your own against ferocious monsters in melee, strike from a distance with blasts of fire or bolts of li...	fighter, magic user		01-15-18	0
The Traitorous Apprentice	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You are excellent at backstabbing and can cast spells from any playbook that uses them!	magic user	sorcerous mishaps	02-11-18	0
The Vampiric Magus	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	The blood you steal from your victims has provided a wonderful fuel for your mastery of blood magic.	monstrous, magic user	undead conspiracies, undead	01-19-18	0
The Vancomancer	Awful Good Games	paid	David Guyll, Melissa Fisher	There is no daily limitation on magic, you can cast spells right out of your book (if you have enough time), and the spells do not have levels.	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Voidtouched	Bryce Duzan	paid	Bryce Duzan	...one that allows you to embrace (or combat) your darker side. The Voidtouched relies on fear, insanity, and horrific transformations to combat their foes.	magic user	specialist	01-16-18	0
The Warlock		free	Shreyas Sampat	Kinda like the D&D 4e Warlock.	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Warlock	Peter Johansen	pwyw	Peter Johansen	A conduit of a terrible force from beyond reality, wielding the power to warp the minds of their foes.	magic user	war and wonders pack	01-15-18	0
The Warlock	Meromorph Games	paid	Kevin Bishop	...complement the existing class playbooks, while providing an alternative for players who want to try an arcane class that relies on otherworldly patrons for power.	magic user		01-14-18	0
The Warlock	Awful Good Games	paid	David Guyll, Melissa Fisher		magic user		01-13-18	0
The Winter Mage	Liberi Gothica Games	paid	Vel Mini	The Winter Mage is as hard as ice, as biting as the wind, and as distant as the snowy mountaintops. With your Chill stat, you have a second pool of hit points to draw from, equal to your full Co...	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Witch	Awful Good Games	paid	David Guyll, Melissa Fisher	...with a few words you can make someone’s eyes bleed, cause even the most faithful and tame of beasts to turn on them, prevent them from speaking, or vermin to crawl forth from their screaming mou...	magic user		01-16-18	0
The Witch	Liberi Gothica Games	paid	Justin Watson	She is a potion brewing spellcaster with dark and forbidden magicks at her command [...] the witch has her hexes, her potions, and her broomstick.	magic user		01-14-18	0
The Wizard	google+	free	Anthony Giovannetti	Part of Anthony Giovannetti's hack of the Dungeon World core playbooks	magic user	alternate	01-14-18	0
The Wizard	Awful Good Games	paid	David Guyll, Melissa Fisher		magic user	alternate	01-13-18	0
The Wizard Core	DW Core	free	Core	The wizard casts spells and uses rituals.	magic user	vanilla	01-10-18	1
The Wizard Sans Spell List	google+	free	C Wotton	Also found on the web in earlier versions as “The Magus”.	magic user	multi-school	01-13-18	0
The Wrath	Pleb Publishing	paid	Jordan MacCarthy	You are the chosen herald of Mother Gaia to bear here wrath and destroy her enemies.	magic user	wrath of the wild	01-13-18	0

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