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<blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 9248834" data-attributes="member: 7027139">In almost any RPG game you wait for what the GM will say to your action. That's kinda how roleplaying games work.&quot;Player looks at you&quot; has no relation whatsoever to player moves. It's a trigger for a GM move, which I will touch on later.Player moves are rules on how to handle a specific situation. They have a trigger: &quot;When you go aggro...&quot;, &quot;when you try to seduce, manipulate, bluff, fast-talk, or lie to someone...&quot;, &quot;at the end of every session...&quot; Some people think that if there is no move that is triggered by a specific action, player can't take said action and that is a silly proposition.Now, on GM moves. When GM makes a move, she just opens her mouth and says what will happen next. Like in any other RPG, but with an important caveat: something must happen next.There is no &quot;open a door in the dungeon&quot; player move in Dungeon World, but when you open a door in the dungeon you look at the GM to see what happens next and GM makes a move. In, say, D&amp;D &quot;You enter into a small room. There is a weird deformed statue in the center.&quot; is a perfectly legal things to say, but in Dungeon World it must be followed with something along the lines of &quot;...and you feel, in your bones, that it is watching you. What ya gonna do?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="loverdrive, post: 9248834, member: 7027139"] In almost any RPG game you wait for what the GM will say to your action. That's kinda how roleplaying games work. "Player looks at you" has [I]no relation whatsoever[/I] to player moves. It's a trigger for a GM move, which I will touch on later. Player moves are rules on how to handle a specific situation. They have a trigger: "When you go aggro...", "when you try to seduce, manipulate, bluff, fast-talk, or lie to someone...", "at the end of every session..." Some people think that if there is no move that is triggered by a specific action, player can't take said action and that is a silly proposition. Now, on GM moves. When GM makes a move, she just opens her mouth and says what will happen next. Like in any other RPG, but with an important caveat: something [I]must[/I] happen next. There is no "open a door in the dungeon" player move in Dungeon World, but when you open a door in the dungeon you look at the GM to see what happens next and GM makes a move. In, say, D&D "You enter into a small room. There is a weird deformed statue in the center." is a perfectly legal things to say, but in Dungeon World it must be followed with something along the lines of "...and you feel, in your bones, that it is [I]watching[/I] you. What ya gonna do?" [/QUOTE]

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