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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8734330" data-attributes="member: 42582">The assertion I've bolded is what the OP denies.To elaborate further on my post 67 upthread:A GM in Apocalypse World has to make decisions about the hardness of moves. Say (as per the example of play in the rulebook) a PC goes looking for Isle, a NPC. What move should the GM make? In the example, the GM narrates the PC finding Isle sitting around eating peaches with friends and family. Imagine instead the GM narrates that the PC finds Isle bloodied and beaten to within an inch of her life, while the seeming perpetrator is driving off on a motorbike. Or imagine the GM narrates that Isle is nowhere to be found. Or is found dead. These different narrations, and the ones that follow on from player action declarations and their resolution, all shape the play space, open up and even invite some action declarations while closing off other possibilities.The GM's narration in a skill challenge is more circumscribed than in AW, because the mathematics of progress towards overall success or failure are tightly defined. But the same sorts of skills a GM uses to narrate a skill challenge - a sense of opening up or closing of possibilities, of circling around conflict or forcefully putting it front and centre, of imposing costs and consequences, etc - will be useful in GMing AW. And vice versa.And I think they're pretty different from the skills a GM needs to run (say) White Plume Mountain, or a typical CoC module.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8734330, member: 42582"] The assertion I've bolded is what the OP denies. To elaborate further on my post 67 upthread: A GM in Apocalypse World has to make decisions about the hardness of moves. Say (as per the example of play in the rulebook) a PC goes looking for Isle, a NPC. What move should the GM make? In the example, the GM narrates the PC finding Isle sitting around eating peaches with friends and family. Imagine instead the GM narrates that the PC finds Isle bloodied and beaten to within an inch of her life, while the seeming perpetrator is driving off on a motorbike. Or imagine the GM narrates that Isle is nowhere to be found. Or is found dead. These different narrations, and the ones that follow on from player action declarations and their resolution, all shape the play space, open up and even invite some action declarations while closing off other possibilities. The GM's narration in a skill challenge is more circumscribed than in AW, because the mathematics of progress towards overall success or failure are tightly defined. But the same sorts of skills a GM uses to narrate a skill challenge - a sense of opening up or closing of possibilities, of circling around conflict or forcefully putting it front and centre, of imposing costs and consequences, etc - will be useful in GMing AW. And vice versa. And I think they're pretty different from the skills a GM needs to run (say) White Plume Mountain, or a typical CoC module. [/QUOTE]

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