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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8160235" data-attributes="member: 42582">(1) What do you mean by unrelated? Unrelated to what? I am going to repost <a href="http://mightyatom.blogspot.com/2011/05/apocalypse-world-guide-to-hard-moves.html" target="_blank">John Harper</a> here, on narrating hard moves in AW: When you make a regular MC move, all three: 1. It follows logically from the fiction. 2. It gives the player an opportunity to react. 3. It sets you up for a future harder move. This means, say what happens but stop before the effect, then ask "What do you do?" - He swings the chainsaw right at your head. What do you do? <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You sneak into the garage but there's Plover right there, about to notice you any second now. What do you do?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">She stares at you coldly. 'Leave me alone,' she says. What do you do?</li> </ul> When you make a hard MC move, both: 1. It follows logically from the fiction. 2. It's irrevocable. This means, say what happens, including the effect, then ask "What do you do?" - The chainsaw bites into your face, spraying chunks of bloody flesh all over the room. 3-harm and make the harm move! <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Plover sees you and starts yelling like mad. Intruder!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Don't come back here again.' She slams the door in your face and you hear the locks click home.</li> </ul> See how that works? The regular move sets up the hard move. The hard move follows through on the threat established by the regular move. (2) Memories and other recollections are not things outside a character. Yet you appear to object to systems that permit players - via whatever resolution process - to establish their PCs' memories and recollections.</blockquote>

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