On a miss, or if your hold is compromised or your rule contested, your hold is in want.
That’s from the Hardholder leadership move in AW 2E. Do we take that to mean it’s in all wants? Or that the MC can choose one? Or as many as she prefers?
I’m guessing that last is the answer, knowing Vincent and my feel for the game’s intent. What do you think?
My read of AW has always been “as many as she prefers” (which includes giving the players (or characters) a choice of want), but I’ll confess to not having read AW2E yet.
If it’s in want it’s usually A want and I’ve played with people who do both, let the player decide or decide themselves. Generally, if it’s not the first session a particular want usually stands out among others that fits in the fiction “the best”.
(My paltry, instinctual offering would be: one or more wants)
I’ve always assumed it meant all of your Wants come into play.
All of them, unless the move says to choose. Check out the example on p. 251 (dealing with the followers of the Hocus, but same principle applies).
I thought all applied.
So yeah I bet the “real” rule is “all of them, unless you don’t want that.”
When I played with it in Fallen Empires it was more of a “all of them, unless it doesn’t makes sense all at once”. We usually had “in want” be the result of some singular event, for simplicity.
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I think the full context helps?
Wealth: If your hold is secure and your rule unchallenged, at the beginning of the
session, roll+hard. On a 10+, you have surplus at hand and available for the needs of
the session. On a 7–9, you have surplus, but choose 1 want. On a miss, or if your hold
is compromised or your rule contested, your hold is in want. The precise values of your
surplus and want depend on your holding, as follows.
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The context does suggest it’s more than one, since you only get one want on a mixed hit.
Sorry, I realize I read half the thread wrong. Thought we were talking about whether it was all of the question or one part of the question!
I’d be okay with even 1 Want being added or emphasized, since that’s already worse than the Surplus+Want of the mixed result.
Shawn, in terms of you doing something “wrong,” I don’t think you have. What I want to know is what the official rule is, but I think the best we can do is approximate based on context, so your read on the rule is helpful.
My best guess, as I said above, “all, but you don’t gotta.”
All, for sure. Realistically they won’t all impact on you this session, but your people are hungry, savage, and demanding protection (or whatever), so get ready for the shit to hit the fan.