Another series of thoughts about GM interpretation. I’m in love with the Deck of Villainy and the characters featured in it. As well as how many different ways that the characters can be portrayed.
Specifically, I want to highlight Satin. One of their major abilities is complete body control, which gets a custom move, “Evade an attack with uncanny grace.” How would you interpret the move? Does Satin simply bob and weave around attacks? Or does their body contort in inhuman and disturbing ways that put elastic heroes off?
I’d definitely lean toward there being something unsettling about it. Either it’s explicitly contortionist in a slight bodyhorror way, or it’s so beautiful that the heroes either feel a pull of admiration/awe or of shame (I never look like that, I’ll never have such mastery of my powers).
Leah Libresco Indeed. I do imagine it to be superhuman levels of contortion–maybe even up to Pillar Man levels where Satin moves like liquid around strikes.
What I don’t understand about the move mentioned is what, if anything, it does mechanically. Does it turn a hit into a miss? Or does it simply mean I mark a condition on Satin but describe them as having evaded the physical damage of a blow?
Actually given when villain moves are triggered, it seems as though there isn’t a mechanical effect. Hm…
Christopher Hatty Hmm. It’s a bit confusing, yes. Another of Satin’s moves is “Break or paralyze a limb with a precise cane strike.” Just some razzle dazzle on exchanges of attacks?