Whoops, I turned their move back on them!
This is an actual play from my last demo of Night Witches. Alessio’s PC, Ira, and Stefano’s PC, Sveta, were in the infirmary after a training mission which went south.
Sveta eyeballed Ira and Stefano rolled a miss. I looked at my GM playsheet and I also looked at the situation, and I said to them:
“Ok, guys. First: Sveta, choose a question from the eyeball list; Ira, you can answer it as you like. Second: Ira, choose a question from the eyeball list; Sveta, you have to answer it truthfully.”
Ok, it worked, I swear, and it was sweet! But then I looked back to the GM general moves list and I realized there wasn’t such a move like this one. This was a turn their move back to them hard move from Apocalypse World and I used it instinctively because of my previuos gaming experience!
So my question is: can I do things like this when I am the GM at a Night Witches table or is this a “horrible drift” I made on the fly?
No, that’s a pretty slick GM move. Pencil it in if you must have something in the rules.
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