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<blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 8245258" data-attributes="member: 1282"><p>I'll think a little more about an example from my game as GM, but I have this example from the game you GM for us:</p><p></p><p>The scene: my Paladin and my wife's Wizard race to a glacial alpine archaeological dig site to head off the incursion of extra planar forces animating the bones in the well unearthing a dragon ossuary (as foretold through the spell Visions through Time and leading, unless stopped, to the mass slaughter of the scholars and workers on site). Through a previous Discern Realities move, we know that immediate threats include avian predators and avalanche.</p><p></p><p>My wife's Wizard fails (6-) a roll to augment her Mage Hand spell during combat with a rampaging wyvern that attacks the site, and your move was to narrate the newly forged wand that powered the spell surging uncontrollably from her hand with electrical feedback and ricocheting down the well. (For the record, I have no issue with this move.)</p><p></p><p>My thought at the time, partially informed by your own walking back of the description from character-centered mishap to new item surging out of control: rather than separating the PC from this new and interesting piece of equipment, why not introduce the wyvern's mate or an avalanche (from the electrical feedback), already telegraphed threats, into the situation?</p><p></p><p>Again, I think your move was interesting and appropriate (and built from the established fiction); but my.mind went a different direction in the moment.</p><p></p><p>Another example, this from last Friday's session: Alastor, my Paladin, was leading a technical climb up a glacial cliff face in pursuing the wyverns back to their lair, but the dice were not with me. Amid my series of successive failed rolls was one when I attempted to launch myself from a crumbling section by digging my ice axe into the face and swinging myself to a safe ledge I spotted. But I rolled that failure. Your move: I land successfully but the landing is not as safe as I thought; it's solid ice that complicates my footing at every step <em>and</em> I espy a creature of shadow (an agent of our arch nemesis, a necromancer who lives in a fortress atop the mountain) that must have been tracking us throughout our journey.</p><p></p><p>Again, an interesting move and one I like, but my mind suggested manifesting the mate of the recently slain wyvern as the hard move here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darkbard, post: 8245258, member: 1282"] I'll think a little more about an example from my game as GM, but I have this example from the game you GM for us: The scene: my Paladin and my wife's Wizard race to a glacial alpine archaeological dig site to head off the incursion of extra planar forces animating the bones in the well unearthing a dragon ossuary (as foretold through the spell Visions through Time and leading, unless stopped, to the mass slaughter of the scholars and workers on site). Through a previous Discern Realities move, we know that immediate threats include avian predators and avalanche. My wife's Wizard fails (6-) a roll to augment her Mage Hand spell during combat with a rampaging wyvern that attacks the site, and your move was to narrate the newly forged wand that powered the spell surging uncontrollably from her hand with electrical feedback and ricocheting down the well. (For the record, I have no issue with this move.) My thought at the time, partially informed by your own walking back of the description from character-centered mishap to new item surging out of control: rather than separating the PC from this new and interesting piece of equipment, why not introduce the wyvern's mate or an avalanche (from the electrical feedback), already telegraphed threats, into the situation? Again, I think your move was interesting and appropriate (and built from the established fiction); but my.mind went a different direction in the moment. Another example, this from last Friday's session: Alastor, my Paladin, was leading a technical climb up a glacial cliff face in pursuing the wyverns back to their lair, but the dice were not with me. Amid my series of successive failed rolls was one when I attempted to launch myself from a crumbling section by digging my ice axe into the face and swinging myself to a safe ledge I spotted. But I rolled that failure. Your move: I land successfully but the landing is not as safe as I thought; it's solid ice that complicates my footing at every step [i]and[/i] I espy a creature of shadow (an agent of our arch nemesis, a necromancer who lives in a fortress atop the mountain) that must have been tracking us throughout our journey. Again, an interesting move and one I like, but my mind suggested manifesting the mate of the recently slain wyvern as the hard move here. [/QUOTE]
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