My Oracle, in the last game, realized that they didn’t quite understand the wording of ‘At Any Cost’.
My Oracle, in the last game, realized that they didn’t quite understand the wording of ‘At Any Cost’. Is it basically just an extra bonus on top of Foretellings that applies only to the Oracle?
As well, I’m finding that I’m having some trouble with a few of the Basic Moves. For example, in the last game one of my players, the Fae, used his power that lets him cast an illusion to cause a swat team to appear in the club he was playing at in order to cause a panic and give everyone a chance to Escape the scene (a lot of nasty stuff was about to go down with some vampires, at least that’s what the Oracle believed). I had him roll Distract – taking into account he was using a power so it allowed him to do something that cool – and he rolled a 13.
He had a hard time coming up with 3 things off the list. He wanted an advantage, but really all he wanted to do was give everyone the chance to Escape. I had planned to let everyone bail if they wanted to without even having to roll, since he did something so awesome and rolled so well, but then the other players didn’t play along and stuck around. I think he felt cheated. He was trying to come up with an advantage he could use, but to be fair he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do at that moment other than stay hidden, which was pretty much covered by the Distract roll already. He also thought “You create an opportunity” and “you confuse them for some time” were both too similar.
Finally, the other move I’m not sure how to deal with relates to a mystery that is unfolding in the game. A local medium has gone missing, and one of the players feels like they were framed since they heard they had been seen with the medium when they clearly couldn’t remember it. A few of the players (who are friends with her) are trying to find her – so they hit the streets. The players all assume there’s some sort of doppelganger, or more likely, a Fae involved.
So one of the players says he wants to hit the streets with wild to talk to a Fae, lets call him Fergis, who is an outcast of the Fae, and so often deals with the other factions (They’re pretty sure the vamps are behind the whole thing). He wants to find out if any of the Fae were paid to do this thing.
On one hand I want to let them use their moves – but on the other this doesn’t seem like something someone would talk a lot about (a Fae working for a Vampire), so picking some random NPC out of the air feels like a shortcut to clearing up the mystery a little too quickly (honestly, I’m not sure exactly who did it – I have ideas, and one that could fit the Fae angle).
Anyway, any help you guys can give would be great. The players had a blast, though the Fae really seemed discouraged by the big roll that the other players basically made not so useful.
