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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9628870" data-attributes="member: 42582">I am sorry to hear that you cannot afford to purchase the DW rulebook.But I was responding to your claim about there being a tension in the rules. I don't agree, and have explained why in some detail. I just looked at this website - <a href="https://www.dungeonworldsrd.com/" target="_blank">Dungeon World SRD</a> - and in the table of contents on the left there is a heading Gamemastering and under that a sub-heading Fronts. That seems to contain all the text that I quoted from p 185 the rulebook. And under the main heading (Gamemastering) there seems to be all the text I quoted from pp 160, 161 and 167. So I don't see that there is any tension in the SRD either.The dangers/threats in a front have impulses, as you can see here: <a href="https://www.dungeonworldsrd.com/gamemastering/fronts/" target="_blank">Fronts – Dungeon World SRD</a>So suppose that your danger is an ambitious organisation: it is a corrupt government, or a cabal? That will then tell you what the nobleman who belongs to it will ultimately try to do: maintain the status quo, or absorb those in power and grow.The colour of the nobleman - that he enjoys fawning and is easily angered by disagreement - is secondary here. Making those sorts of notes about a NPC's personality is not really the sort of prep that DW is focused on, as is demonstrated by these passages under GM Principles:Give every monster life Monsters are fantastic creatures with their own motivations (simple or complex). Give each monster details that bring it to life: smells, sights, sounds. Give each one enough to make it real, but don’t cry when it gets beat up or overthrown. That’s what player characters do! Name every person Anyone that the players speak with has a name. They probably have a personality and some goals or opinions too, but you can figure that out as you go. Start with a name. The rest can flow from there.You can figure that out as you go is key here: there is no instruction to make notes about the precise quirks of the nobleman's personality. But his role and goals as part of an ambitious organisation: those are things that the prep of a front and its dangers/threats will establish, and those then create material to incorporate into GM move-making.</blockquote>

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