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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8416474" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm still catching up on this thread, and haven't got past [USER=99817]@chaochou[/USER]'s reply to you on this.I've never read or played BitD so can't comment on it with the same sort of familiarity as AW (which I've read closely, not played - my play experience is DW - but have drawn on quite a bit for my Classic Traveller GMing as per upthread).But going on what you've said in your second post, I think of lost opportunity and harm as good ones. In both of what follows, I'm imaging the GM has told the players something useful that follows from the &quot;success&quot; part of the &quot;success with complication&quot; result. Lost opportunity: while you're poking around in the shed, you hear an engine start up: by the time you get outside, all you can see is the dust! Now I don't know how BitD specifies &quot;lost opportunity&quot;, but the way I'm interpreting it here is as a form of hard move: it establishes some state of the fiction which puts something the players (as their PCs) wanted beyond their grasp in some sense that is, at least for the moment, irrevocable. The burglars/kidnappers having escaped in their car looks like it fits that bill.Harm: you're poking around in the shed, trying to work out what happened, when a shot rings out - you feel a sting in your side, and then realise your shirt is damp. I don't know BitD well enough to know exactly how this might then unfold, how harm is handled, etc - but hopefully I've conveyed a general idea.Are these examples making sense?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8416474, member: 42582"] I'm still catching up on this thread, and haven't got past [USER=99817]@chaochou[/USER]'s reply to you on this. I've never read or played BitD so can't comment on it with the same sort of familiarity as AW (which I've read closely, [I]not [/I]played - my play experience is DW - but have drawn on quite a bit for my Classic Traveller GMing as per upthread). But going on what you've said in your second post, I think of [I]lost opportunity[/I] and [I]harm[/I] as good ones. In both of what follows, I'm imaging the GM has told the players something useful that follows from the "success" part of the "success with complication" result. Lost opportunity: [I]while you're poking around in the shed, you hear an engine start up: by the time you get outside, all you can see is the dust![/I] Now I don't know how BitD specifies "lost opportunity", but the way I'm interpreting it here is as a form of hard move: it establishes some state of the fiction which puts something the players (as their PCs) wanted [I]beyond their grasp[/I] in some sense that is, at least for the moment, irrevocable. The burglars/kidnappers having escaped in their car looks like it fits that bill. Harm: [I]you're poking around in the shed, trying to work out what happened, when a shot rings out - you feel a sting in your side, and then realise your shirt is damp. [/I]I don't know BitD well enough to know exactly how this might then unfold, how harm is handled, etc - but hopefully I've conveyed a general idea. Are these examples making sense? [/QUOTE]

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