When you “Directly Engage a Threat” one of the options is to “impress, surprise, or frighten the opposition”.

10 thoughts on “When you “Directly Engage a Threat” one of the options is to “impress, surprise, or frighten the opposition”.”

1. It doesn’t create a condition, but it does impress, surprise or frighten the opposition (whichever makes the most sense). The opposition should respond accordingly.

2. The problem I have with that is that condition moves already do that. If I mark “Afraid” for a villain, I make a condition move accordingly. Then the player also elects to frighten his opponent. Isn’t that just redundant?

3. Yeah, you should have them also be impressed or surprised instead.

4. Jason Corley thanks for the response, Jason.

5. check page 57.

6. Here’s a follow up question: do you always inflict a condition on an NPC when a PC successfully directly engaged them?

7. When they trade blows? Yeah.

8. Then, Tim, if they elect to impress, surprise, or frighten, do you inflict another condition or just narrate based on the fiction?

9. David Benson They might be both (Condition) and Afraid after someone directly engages them and chooses to impress, surprise, or frighten them, if the GM chooses that they are frightened. Then the GM can make 2 hard moves in a row in response.

   OR

   They might not be frightened, but be impressed instead, in addition to the inflicted condition. Then only 1 hard move is necessarily called for.

   If someone chooses to impress, surprise, or frighten the opposition, at least one of these is true. If they’re frightened, they’re probably Afraid now. If they’re already Afraid, they’re probably impressed or surprised.

   Ideally, mechanics serve the fiction. If an NPC is afraid, don’t hesitate to make them ‘Afraid.’

10. David Benson depends on the kind of villain I’d say. Didn’t come up so far.

Comments are closed.