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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7844713" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't understand what you mean by &quot;narrative control&quot; or &quot;narrative move&quot;.Here are a couple of moves from AW:DO SOMETHING UNDER FIRE: When you do something under fire, or dig in to endure fire, roll+cool. On a 10+, you do it. On a 7–9, you flinch, hesitate, or stall: the MC can offer you a worse outcome, a hard bargain, or an ugly choice.

SEIZE BY FORCE: When you try to seize something by force, or to secure your hold on something, roll+hard. On a hit, choose options. On a 10+, choose 3. On a 7–9, choose 2:
• you take definite hold of it
• you suffer little harm
• you inflict terrible harm
• you impress, dismay or frighten your enemyThose are just the PC doing stuff. The other basic moves are like this too. So are most playbook moves - they either add a new specialised thing your PC can do, or allow you to use a different stat for a basic move, or give you a new gear or gang or whatever.Here's a move that might count as &quot;narrative control&quot; - the Battlebabe's Visions of death:when you go into battle, roll+weird. On a 10+, name one person who’ll die and one who’ll live. On a 7–9, name one person who’ll die OR one person who’ll live. Don’t name a player’s character; name NPCs only. The MC will make your vision come true, if it’s even remotely possible. On a miss, you foresee your own death, and accordingly take -1 throughout the battle.That sort of move is in the minority, though.It doesn't count as player narrative control, surely, simply that the player is able to impact the fiction and the GM is bound by this? If that's your deifnition, then every RPG I play (including Classic Traveller, c 1977) is riddled with player narrative control.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7844713, member: 42582"] I don't understand what you mean by "narrative control" or "narrative move". Here are a couple of moves from AW: [indent]DO SOMETHING UNDER FIRE: When you do something under fire, or dig in to endure fire, roll+cool. On a 10+, you do it. On a 7–9, you flinch, hesitate, or stall: the MC can offer you a worse outcome, a hard bargain, or an ugly choice. SEIZE BY FORCE: When you try to seize something by force, or to secure your hold on something, roll+hard. On a hit, choose options. On a 10+, choose 3. On a 7–9, choose 2: • you take definite hold of it • you suffer little harm • you inflict terrible harm • you impress, dismay or frighten your enemy[/indent] Those are just the PC doing stuff. The other basic moves are like this too. So are most playbook moves - they either add a new specialised thing your PC can do, or allow you to use a different stat for a basic move, or give you a new gear or gang or whatever. Here's a move that might count as "narrative control" - the Battlebabe's Visions of death: [indent]when you go into battle, roll+weird. On a 10+, name one person who’ll die and one who’ll live. On a 7–9, name one person who’ll die OR one person who’ll live. Don’t name a player’s character; name NPCs only. The MC will make your vision come true, if it’s even remotely possible. On a miss, you foresee your own death, and accordingly take -1 throughout the battle.[/indent] That sort of move is in the minority, though. It doesn't count as [I]player narrative control[/I], surely, simply that the player is able to impact the fiction and the GM is bound by this? If that's your deifnition, then every RPG I play (including Classic Traveller, c 1977) is riddled with player narrative control. [/QUOTE]

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