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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7905342" data-attributes="member: 16814">Yeah, this is absolutely wrong.  A DM that does what you say is playing the game in bad faith, against all of the advice and rules in the game.  This isn't how it works.  Look the simple version of DW is that the DM describes the fiction, then the players react.  If the player's reaction sounds like a Move, it is a Move and dice are used.  At this point, there's some threat or challenge the PC are trying to overcome.  The dice say success, success at cost or complication, or failure.  The Move will provide guidance on each.  The DM's job now is to do what the game calls for -- if the game has called for a cost or complication, the you need to bring that, strongly.  The DM only increases the danger when the players roll a Move and fail or incur a cost.  That's when the hellhound bites your arm and sets you on fire, when the PC tries a Hack and Slash and fails (or succeeds with a cost with plenty of previous soft moves that now demand payoff).   Rinse and repeat until the challenge or threat is passed (or, more likely, until the snowball of threats has diminished).DW has strong play principles, both for the DM and the players.  These constrain the play in a way that makes it not arbitrary in application, but free in fictional impacts.  That means that the DM's authority to bring the bad is entirely dependent on the player's  failures -- and the game is slanted to incur failures and costs.  The players have a duty to engage, to play their PCs like stolen cars if you will, and see where the fiction takes them.  Following these principles and the rules results in a fair and very challenging game.  It's when you don't follow those that the game breaks.  Kinda like how D&D breaks when a DM engages in Monty Haul.</blockquote>

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