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Message: <blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 8176986" data-attributes="member: 7027139">And there's such thing.There are Player Moves (which are different from GM Moves and I think the Bakers kinda dropped the ball with naming here) -- basically, rules for resolving common situations, though they are triggered by fictional events, as opposed to mechanics.In this case, the wizard is weaving the magic, thus triggering Cast a Spell move:The players don't choose an action from a list of available options on their turn, they describe what their character is doing and based on that description, rules are applied.To illustrate it better, here's Hack&Slash moveNow compare it to attacking in D&D, where you're rolling to hit and then deal damage, regardless of what exactly you're attacking, and then these rules need to be overridden (by other rules or by an invocation of rule 0, doesn't matter), if its normal application doesn't make sense in the fictional context.</blockquote>