Hi.

Hi.

Hi. Tonight I dipped my toe into a PbtA game for the first time. We played Urban Shadows and I’m Father Luke, a tainted priest who finally found someone who is listened, so I can help my battered flock in a slightly exaggerated pseudo Detroit during its worst economical crisis.

Fairly early during the game, I got the chance to help poor middle-aged George Green to stop being a disgrace for his mother Mary. He’ll overcome his alcohol addiction. He’ll finally find a job. His mother will be proud. And that for the price of his soul. A soul. Most people don’t even believe in a soul. And so on …

I persuaded an NPC through promises, rolled a 7, so I had to take care for his mother, which might be in big trouble (our Oracle said something about a shortened life line, uh oh).

Now I found another move in my playbook: Tainted Corruption Move. Since I persuaded poor George to give up his soul for a job in this life and eternal damnation in the other, I probably persuaded him on my patron’s behalf. So is this move actived at the same time like the persuasion move?

Or is every action only related to just one move?

I have to admit that Father Luke should easily ramp up quite a lot of corruption. That was my first move and I’m already looking for more customers. 🙂

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  1. Your Corruption move will activate every time you persuade someone on your patron’s behalf whether it happens as a part of a “Persuade an NPC with seduction, promises or threats” move or not. So in this case, yes, you should be marking Corruption. However, you would also mark corruption if you persuaded a PC on behalf of your patron (there is no move for this), or if you persuaded an NPC on behalf of your patron through means other than seduction, promises or threats.

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