After having played SotI at GenCon, last saturday I ran my first game of SotI. I’m completely blown away, especially by the way the moves link into each other. On several occasions all I did was introducing one greedy NPC into a static situation, and two or three snowballed dice rolls later nothing was stable anymore. It was really wonderful.
Still, a couple questions came up which I do not yet have good answers for. I would be grateful for your views.
1) At several occasions my players missed manipulation-moves. This is especially valid for male characters, who seem to have no way to
a) impress women
b) impose their “natural authority” on others
But the problem is basically the same when women deal with each other – all moves we found to be relevant were female moves aimed at male characters.
2) Our Goði had an interesting move going for him: His player chose “Forbidden seiðr”, allowing him to take any female move.
He decided to take “When you lie with a man to conceive a child…”
How would you handle that?