Suddenly an Ogre is a short gamebook using the Dungeon World system. Most choices that you make correspond to Basic Moves of the game. This gives you an opportunity to experience a bit of gameplay without a GM.
The title is an homage to the essay “Suddenly Ogres: What to do on Spout Lore and Discern Realities misses” by Vasiliy Shapovalov.
Published using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. You are encouraged to adapt this for your game system of choice. Comments and suggestions welcome, directly in the Google Doc.
For a more traditional gamebook, see Hero’s Arc: Under the Blood-Red Mountain.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to Tam H for her encouragement, and especially for her Dungeon World SRD.
Illustration credit: Sessen Doji Offering His Life to an Ogre (Japanese Oni), hanging scroll, color on paper, 1764.
