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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8926236" data-attributes="member: 42582">[USER=6790260]@EzekielRaiden[/USER] I understand what you're saying, but it does not persuade me to relent. [USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER]'s post rests on an assumption about how RPG rules work which may have been current c 1978 but has been superseded in the intervening 45 years.In AW, if a player does it they do it, and the dice are rolled. Otherwise, once they say what they're doing and look to the GM to see what happens next, the GM makes a move - a soft move, unless an opportunity is handed on a platter.If a GM thinks that a particular sort of situation, or place, or NPC, should trigger a dice-determined range of outcomes, rather than just invoke a soft move, the GM needs to write a custom move for it/them. This is the AW equivalent of writing up a stat block for a high stakes trap or NPC/creature in D&D. In this way, the game generates mechanical heft at those points that carry the thematic weight of play.But the lack of a custom move doesn't mean there is no resolution system. There is - it's called the GM makes a soft move.</blockquote>