4 thoughts on “New streamlined Stress moves.”

  1. They make more sense to me when they can be used at any time, though if the effects are scaled down. I like the idea of Abuse only usable when the stress track is full, but then it becomes (in my mind) something different…something like the pressure has built up so much that one cracks or blows up. It may just be the names or presentation. If the design goal is to not let people incrementally lower stress, maybe “Indulge” is more like “Bender” or something more drastic like that. My feeling is that a move that can’t be used until the stress track is exactly full has a lot of weight to it. “Indulge” feels like maybe…eat that whole pint of ice cream. I feel like something that needs a full stress track and clears it completely would be, like…wake up in two days on a park bench missing a shoe.

    Also, “Abuse” is something of a loaded word. What would be an example of someone making this move?

  2. Oh! Rob Abrazado you’re totally right here. I like the idea of having one with minor benefit, that can be used any time, and another one for when your stress is full and you blow up.

    I originally had various stress moves, since I was hacking Mark Diaz Truman’s Cartel. In the aschan edition of Cartel there was “Lose yourself in a substance”, “Lose yourself in a person”, “Dish out a beatdown”, and “Verbally abuse or shame”. So Indulge and Abuse as presented above, are my attempt to streamline into only 2 moves. Either you Indulge (Lose yourself on a substance or on a person) a pleasure, or Abuse (verbally abuse or shame, dish out a beatdown) someone, but also something. So I think in my head I saw “Abuse” as an step above “Indulge”, but in a bad way obviously, like overindulging in Blades perhaps.

  3. What about this:

    STRESS

    When your stress track is already full and you have to mark stress, you have two choices: reduce your Tonal stat by 1 or trigger the Blow Off move. You can use Indulge to clear stress, but only before your stress track is full.

    Indulge [Barrio]

    When you indulge yourself on a pleasure, roll with BARRIO. On a hit, clear 3 stress. On a 7-9, you owe someone a +1 Favor for your indulgence. On a miss, you end up overindulging, your pleasure sinks you deep into a big trouble (mark stress).

    Blow Off

    When your stress track is full and you blow off, clear your stress track. You then act aggressively or recklessly, abusing something or someone, and things get way out of hand. ¡Te mamaste!

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