So I am having a bit of a confusion about the idea of threatening and challenging my players. For moves like Hack and Slash I know that I can deal damage to my players if they get a 7-9 or  -6 of course, but if my players after being attacked by several enemies and then roll a good Magic Missile +10 and kill one of the guys does that mean I can't deal any damage or threaten them because they rolled well or because there is multiple enemies they should be hit? I'm not sure how to ramp up the challenge or create harder enemies because if my players keep rolling really well then I can't touch them right? They could hypothetically kill an army of dudes? I ask this because my players ran into a situation where they were fighting 20 well trained warriors and I feel it should be tough but how do I do this?

Thank you grand masta Vincent for being ever present and helpful.

Okay yeah I really like the idea of that custom move a lot Vincent, I never considered making a move that can't fully succeed also I like what Ebok said of giving the OP a obligation gig for the hold because that does play into the class which I think is a good "intermittent reward" so that is the route I am gonna take. 

So I had my players at one point ask if they could use the physic maelstrom to communicate without someone who was some distance from them (other side of a prison court yard), at the time I said no they couldn't use the maelstrom for that purpose but after having thought about I'm not sure that was the correct response. Basically do you guys think the maelstrom should be able to do something like that or do you thing it depends on what the maelstrom "is" in your game?

Alright yeah I can work with that idea. Gonna be a bit rough but I guess it is supposed to be that way lol

So I had some crazyness go on in my game of AW and my friend who is playing The Operator has no basically stolen by  force a hold from an NPC so is there any sort of things you guys think I should do with this or simply give him the Wealth move and kind of works things out as the game goes on?

Quote from: k2i3n4g5 on May 22, 2015, 10:00:26 AM

So what I am gathering here is obligation gigs are based around story and narrative events and paying gigs are stuff that is always on going because the operator has spread the word that he does these things for people.

For the most part. But don't forget the narrative power of having a paying gig go badly. In our most recent campaign, the Battlebabe took Moonlighting and 2 paying gigs as an advance. The number of times she botched "infiltration" was epic. A number of sessions started in medias res with her trying to blast her way out of a bad situation (often with the "help" of the Faceless, who had a lopsided, mostly unrequited thing for her and whose player had hilariously opted to take the move scent of blood). The fallout from these encounters fueled much of the narrative as the campaign progressed.

Oh yeah I'm of that part of the Operator, I am waiting for that too happen so the fun for me can start lol. I have only had two session so far so haven't been able to get into that yet.

Okay so when the game says you get +1 juggling for getting a gig does that refer to getting a gig in the improvement section and/or when an important obligation gig comes up? Cause I assume that every time time you do a quick paying gig you don't get +1 juggling cause that would get ridiculous.