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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8655554" data-attributes="member: 42582">Well, with respect, I do privilege my opinions of how AW works over yours, because I've read the rules very closely and read much of the design discussion by Vincent Baker that underpins them. I quoted the rules upthread. I don't know if you read my post, but your repeated insistence that - for instance - a Seduce/Manipulate roll permits a player to specify what a NPC knows suggests that you didn't.Here they are again:And here are the rules for Read a Person and Seduce/Manipulate:Here are the rules for acting under fire:When you do something under fire, or dig in to endure fire, roll+cool. On a 10+, you do it. On a 7–9, you flinch, hesitate, or stall: the MC can offer you a worse outcome, a hard bargain, or an ugly choice.As the book explains (pp 190-92),You can read “under fire” to mean any kind of serious pressure at all. Call for this move whenever someone does something requiring unusual discipline, resolve, endurance or care. . . . Examples: . . . Keeler the gunlugger’s taken off her shoes and she’s sneaking into Dremmer’s camp, armed as they say to the upper teeth. If they hear her, she’s [in trouble]And here was one possible sequence of play that I suggested:Notice that at no point is the player exercising authority over the content of the safe. But the GM is not allowed to make a hard move if there is not either a missed move, or an opportunity handed on a plate. And saying "What you're looking for isn't there" is irrevocable, a hard move.</blockquote>

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