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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8344863" data-attributes="member: 42582">Following up on this: I don't really get how you're running DW without introducing new fiction into the game all the time.Probably the most generic soft move is to reveal an unwelcome truth (I might be mixing some DW with AW terminology here), and that's probably going to be or to signal a new bit of fiction all the time. You see a foreboding house ahead of you down the road would be one example. Or a hard move might be anything from a scything blade to falling in a pit to slipping through the veils of reality into a haunted shadowfell analogue of the PC's current location.Similar ideas apply in other non-PbtA but &quot;story now&quot; games - eg in BW a new framing (which may be consequence narration) will often be (in PbtA terms) a flagging of an unwelcome truth that builds on where things are at (eg <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/its-ok-ive-got-the-head.530845/" target="_blank">the PCs are fleeing</a> an important wizard's tower at night, carrying a decapitated body and its head; I tell the players they have come crossed path with the night watch); in Cortex+ Heroic the PCs had encountered a Crypt Thing in a dungeon, the Doom Pool grew to 2d12, and I spent that to end the scene, which meant - in the fiction - that the Crypt Thing had teleported them deep into the dungeon. That wasn't a haunted house, but it could have been.As I said: In this sort of play it seems as if it's the GM's job to establish new fiction all the time. Which leaves me a bit confused by your remarks about doing so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8344863, member: 42582"] Following up on this: I don't really get how you're running DW without introducing new fiction into the game all the time. Probably the most generic soft move is to [I]reveal an unwelcome truth [/I](I might be mixing some DW with AW terminology here), and that's probably going to be or to signal a new bit of fiction all the time. [I]You see a foreboding house ahead of you down the road[/I] would be one example. Or a hard move might be anything from a scything blade to falling in a pit to slipping through the veils of reality into a haunted shadowfell analogue of the PC's current location. Similar ideas apply in other non-PbtA but "story now" games - eg in BW a new framing (which may be consequence narration) will often be (in PbtA terms) a flagging of an unwelcome truth that builds on where things are at (eg [url=https://www.enworld.org/threads/its-ok-ive-got-the-head.530845/]the PCs are fleeing[/url] an important wizard's tower at night, carrying a decapitated body and its head; I tell the players they have come crossed path with the night watch); in Cortex+ Heroic the PCs had encountered a Crypt Thing in a dungeon, the Doom Pool grew to 2d12, and I spent that to end the scene, which meant - in the fiction - that the Crypt Thing had teleported them deep into the dungeon. That wasn't a haunted house, but it [I]could [/I]have been. As I said: In this sort of play it seems as if it's the GM's job to establish new fiction all the time. Which leaves me a bit confused by your remarks about doing so. [/QUOTE]

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