Idea for missing on a shapeshift roll for Dungeon World

Question

I was looking at the Druid and the shapeshift move. I can imagine consequences for failing the wizard's spellcasting and the thief backstabbing moves, but how can you make shapeshifting turn out bad?

Answer 1

Looking over the GM moves, here are some ideas that come to mind.

• Deal damage is simple, direct, but will get boring quickly.
• Use up their resources could cause them to break something they were holding, wearing, or carrying during the transformation.
• Turn their move back on them could get them stuck in a suboptimal form for a little while. As GM, I would be very careful about this. You could also transform an opponent into something more dangerous—this sounds a lot more interesting and fun! The spirits are angry with you, and here's what you get for bothering them with your inane request.
• Show a downside could be the enemies taking the Druid for the biggest threat.

Answer 2

In the game I've been running, we've decided that the simple act of transforming doesn't trigger the shapeshift move. I always ask the druid to make the transformation part of a larger action. I.e. turning into an animal and immediately doing something with that new form. From there, it becomes a lot more obvious what the failure results might be.

For example, the druid pounces on an enemy cultist, shapeshifting into a wolf while in mid-air, hoping to pin and bite the cultist. Rolling the shapeshift move, he gets a...

• 10+: The druid gets 3 hold, and the wolf moves of "pin" and "bite and tear", which he may spend hold to automatically trigger (if in the right situation, with no roll require; that's the reward for rolling 10+). The druid spends one hold immediately to bite and tear into the cultists neck, dealing damage, and has two more to use later as he wishes.
• 7-9: As above, but with 1 hold. Generally this means the hold is spent immediately to do an animal-form move, and the druid reverts back immediately, but not necessarily.
• 6-: Hard move as usual, but now that the shapeshift is in the context of pouncing on the cultist, it can be easier to see what the consequences of failure might be. @Okeefe's examples are a great start.

I know this isn't necessarily the rules as written, but I find it makes the druid very dynamic, shapeshifting on the fly and doing some really creative things with the various animal forms.