Dungeon World RPG homebrew - The Fighter

Switching gears, the Fighter is a more familiar and mundane player option; even in the far-flung future technomagical wastelands, there's a niche for being good at taking hits and hitting things back with something big, sharp, metal and pointy.

Initially I wasn't intending to change the standard Dungeon World Fighter playbook beyond some my custom motivations, race options, and stylistic word choices. But as I transcribed the moves to the custom template I found the Fighter was far too centered around this starting move:

Signature Weapon
This is your weapon. There are many like it, but this one is yours. Your weapon is your best friend. It is your life. You master it as you master your life. Your weapon, without you, is useless. Without your weapon, you are useless. You must wield your weapon true.

Followed by several options for its appearance and enhancements. The only other starting moves let them break objects and wear armor without penalty. But this made the Fighter primarily a vehicle for the weapon and its backstory, rather than the Fighter's own preternatural abilities and training.  Luckily, I stumbled upon an alternative playbook called the Peerless Fighter, which made just a few subtle alterations by swapping some Starting moves with Advanced moves and a thematic re-haul of Signature Weapon.

The Signature ability is now that of a unique personal fighting style, which can be applied to any weapon of the same type as the Fighter's starting weapon. For added creative flexibility,  the Fighter now chooses essentially any kind of weapon they can think of (Hook Swords, Crossbows, Katars, Nunchucks, Spiked Shields, Oars, Yo-Yos, Buster Swords, Battle Spoons, etc). Go nuts, but if you lose it you'll have to find someone who knows how to make another, and skilled smiths are few and far between in this world.

I should note that I have since edited the options for Demiurge; they can add Forceful or Agile as part of the style. For those of you with knowledge of Warhammer 40,000 lore, you might be picturing 'Demiurge' as some kind of sci-fi dwarven species. This is not correct in this case, as I have co-opted the term (derived from the Greek "creator") to refer not to those who are builders but to those who were built. Here it is a catch-all for self-propagating androids with enough organic components to require food, water and be capable of natural healing, as well as communicate and interact with human communities. Most machine life is far less concerned with human needs.

I'd like to share a couple more homebrew classes next week, perhaps another contrasting pair of mundane skill-user vs technomagic-user. I think I have 16 in total?  We'll see.