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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8701225" data-attributes="member: 42582">I've cited the rules text pretty extensively. Including the actual play example.Largely correct. As per my post upthread:The GM's job is to either ask questions or to say stuff. (Sometimes they do both at once, like "Why is she angry at you?") When they say stuff, they are making moves having regard to the agenda and principles.Consider, for instance, this from p 156, when Plover and crew attack Marie at home:"What do you do?” “I set off my pain-wave projector.” “Sweet,” I say. “That’s…” “1-harm area loud ap.” “The loud is their screaming,” I say. “They’re like—” and I hold my hands over my ears. On a whim, looking through crosshairs, I add, “Church Head isn’t. He looks paralyzed, he’s rigid and silent, his eyes are rolling around in their sockets but otherwise he’s not moving.” Taking 1-harm is much worse for NPCs than it is for PCs; see pages 167–168. “What do you do?”So first, we have the GM asking "What do you do?" which is the canonical thing to say after making a move (p 117, and reiterated in the examples that follow). And second, even though Baker hasn't called it out, we see him offering an opportunity which Marie's player most definitely takes up in the play that follows. At a cost, in a sense, because Marie is taking down members of Keeler's gang.I can't remember who I was reading online - maybe John Harper? - who addressed the fact that many action declarations in AW don't trigger a player-side move. So how are they resolved? The answer is, by way of the GM making a move - typically soft, but not always. This why it matters to say what prep and what honesty demand, and why it matters to be fans of the PCs, and why sometimes the GM disclaims decision-making. These are the principles that help ensure the GM's moves are responsive to the players and to the fiction.And of course the players assert control every time they declare an action that triggers a player-side move - which was [USER=99817]@chaochou[/USER]'s point way upthread.</blockquote>

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