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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8474077" data-attributes="member: 5142">I somehow missed this thread. When I saw the title, I was considering posting this same bit from Stonetop - as I also recently re-read this Move and recalled our heated discussion about social skills - only to find that you have beaten me to the punch. Now I have 20+ pages of reading to do in this thread.Brian Engard, one of the co-authors of Venture City, has his name attached to some high profile and highly regarded supplements for Fate, including Fate Core, Fate System Toolkit, Fate Adversary Toolkit, Bulldogs, Atomic Robo, Uprising: The Dystopian Universe RPG, Dresden Files Accelerated, etc. I'm not sure if such an accusation questioning his understanding of Fate would hold much water.You are welcome to ask Jeremy Strandberg on the Dungeon World Discord. He's quite open to discussing his design decisions and the like, and it's still open to clarification. That said, fishing Parley vs. PCs for failed rolls and -6 XP seems a bit silly because a 6- roll also forces a hard move against the PCs by the GM. If you really want to fish for that XP, then you have to be prepared for hard move after hard move against your characters. Moreover, it's seems like the easy fix is simply to say that XP is not generated in these situations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 8474077, member: 5142"] I somehow missed this thread. When I saw the title, I was considering posting this same bit from Stonetop - as I also recently re-read this Move and recalled our heated discussion about social skills - only to find that you have beaten me to the punch. Now I have 20+ pages of reading to do in this thread. Brian Engard, one of the co-authors of Venture City, has his name attached to some high profile and highly regarded supplements for Fate, including Fate Core, Fate System Toolkit, Fate Adversary Toolkit, Bulldogs, Atomic Robo, Uprising: The Dystopian Universe RPG, Dresden Files Accelerated, etc. I'm not sure if such an accusation questioning his understanding of Fate would hold much water. You are welcome to ask Jeremy Strandberg on the Dungeon World Discord. He's quite open to discussing his design decisions and the like, and it's still open to clarification. That said, fishing Parley vs. PCs for failed rolls and -6 XP seems a bit silly because a 6- roll also forces a hard move against the PCs by the GM. If you really want to fish for that XP, then you have to be prepared for hard move after hard move against your characters. Moreover, it's seems like the easy fix is simply to say that XP is not generated in these situations. [/QUOTE]

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