Whats exactly a hunt for a wolf?
From the Drama moves we get:
“Wolf Corruption Move When you begin a hunt for someone, mark corruption.”
This seems hunting someone is letting your feral instincts go wild.
And a wolf option reads:
“When you transform, you keep your cool or declare a hunt”
More or less the same.
So, I guess you cannot use the Bloodhound movement if you want to track a lost friend:
“Bloodhound: When you hunt someone, roll with Blood. On a hit, you know exactly where to find them and can follow their scent until you do. On a 10+, take +1 forward against them. On a miss, someone unpleasant finds you first.”
So, you’re a good tracker but only when you gain corruption? Ô.o
I haven’t played much yet, but this totally makes sense. Corruption represents giving in to your Supernatural nature, generally gaining major advantages, but at a cost as you slowly chip away at your humanity.
Pretty much all of the playbook moves that provide a big, obvious benefit, do so at the cost of corruption. It adds a very real cost to Power, and that’s part of the tension that makes Urban Shadows so interesting to me.
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Yup, a hunt means you want to track down prey and kill it. Not a good way to develop a friendship. 😉
Doubling down on what Jeff Craig said. When I played at GenCon, everything that gained me corruption a direct result of helping my friends. Or in my case, as the Veteran, training my protegé. I got corruption because instead of sitting at home with my cat, I was out fighting vampires. That’s it. The Vet corrupts just because he gets dragged back into the fight.
Corruption is a loaded word, but in game terms, it just means “forsaking your humanity for the ‘beast’.”
Nice to know we were using it right 🙂
The way I view this also is that Corruption is often REALLY tempting for people. So why not ask them? ‘Are you hunting this person? Is this a hunt?’
I agree with Bryanna Hitchcock: “hunt” seems pretty clearly “track down and brutally murder, maybe even eat a bit of.” It’s for ultimate vengeance kind of stuff, as opposed to initial footwork.
I was noticing this Jeff’s problem as well. (and posted a similar question)
It seems railroady, and limiting to have one of the Wolf’s ground-level moves, when used, incurs Corruption.
I get that all the other playbooks have ways of gaining Corruption, but none of them have a move that so bluntly adds Corruption just to use it.