Hi. There’s something I don’t get with “provoke someone” move.

6 thoughts on “Hi. There’s something I don’t get with “provoke someone” move.”

1. The player of the target character always gets to decide how their character reacts. Whether they do it or not is entirely their choice regardless of what the dice say.

   Getting “both” just means they target character gets a reward if they play along and gets a Condition if they don’t.

2. it’s actually simple: on a 7-9 you who provoked choses

   – if they do it they add a team to the pool

   – if they don’t they take a condition

   it means that you have to give the target one of these options:

   “ok if you do it you add one to the pool”

   “ok if you don’t you get a condition”

   on a 10+ you get both:

   “if you do it you get to add one to the pool and, if that wasn’t enough, if you don’t you don’t get the pool bonus and you get a condition too”

3. So how this works is on 7-9 you pick one. So for example you say “if you do this we can add team to the pool.” So if they say no then no team is added to the pool but nothing else happens. On the other hand you can say, “if you don’t do this you have to mark a condition.” And if they do what you want they just avoid the condition. But on 7-9 you can’t do both. On 10+ both of those apply so they get the carrot of adding a team and the stick of taking a condition to motivate them to do what you want rather then just one or the other.

   The important thing to remember is they always have a choice the move just adjusts the consequences of that choice.

   Edit: yeah pretty much what they said

4. Ok, thank you. I understand it now.

5. It is a bit confusing, but yeah, it’s all about incentives.

6. I think the text would be less confusing if rewritten like this:

   For PCs: On a 7-9, choose one incentive, before they make their choice. On a 10+, get both.

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