A while back someone on the SomethingAwful RPG forum had the idea of doing a fantasy version of Apocalypse World; not D&D with the AWorld rules (i.e., Dungeon World), but looking at Apocalypse World through the lens of traditional fantasy. The joke at the time was that instead if the Gunlugger, you’d have the Swordlugger.
So, since things like this pop into my head just before I go to bed…
Fantasy World
The Angel -> The Apothecary
The Battlebabe -> The Barbarian
The Brainer -> The Sorcerer
The Chopper -> The Warlord
The Driver -> The Messenger
The Gunlugger -> The Swordlugger
The Hardholder -> The Landsmaster
The Hocus -> The Godspeaker
The Operator -> The Rogue
The Savvyhead -> The Artificer
The Skinner -> The Skald
tony dowler’s Apocalypse D&D might be a good place to start.
Here is a pretty nicely done Hyborian Saga hack: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0By4fR8hnM-BPNWRkNTNlMTktNjIxOS00YjY1LTg1NDktMGQ4NTg1NGE4ZWY4/edit
The Quarantine -> The Stranger (A dude from the Golden Age past? Or maybe just ‘somebody from our time, transported to the time of the setting’?)
Or a guy from the modern, mundane age transported from another dimension. Or an astronaut from a distant world without magic.
There’s a DW playbook along those lines in Johnstone Metzger’s “Adventures on Dungeon Planet”.
http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/johnstone-metzger/adventures-on-dungeon-planet/paperback/product-20948461.html
Why does the Gunlugger need to have swords? Change her guns into spells and she can be the Battle Wizard. You don’t need to change the names of the playbooks if you leave open a wide, wide range of fantasy interpretations.