Quote from: Daniel Wood on July 26, 2016, 03:24:14 PM

Quote from: Fleuri on July 26, 2016, 01:24:29 AM

EDIT: Also remember that a player can ask to have their highlights changed at the start of every session.

Just to clarify: this is not optional, highlighting stats happens at the beginning of every session.

(Unless this is some 2nd edition thing, I guess?)

I've always played it your way, but per page 92 in the 1e rulebook (section header "Changing Highlights"):

"At the beginning of any session, or at the end if you forgot, anyone can say, 'hey, let's change highlighted stats.'"

Technically it's any session, not every.

Where do all these ninjas come from?

I have been choosing the highlighted stat based solely on the guideline 'choose one that is most interesting' and told that to my players. I present it to myself as a stakes question: "What would happen if Rache, Maestro D', a social butterfly would end up in a gunfight" and "How deep is the rabbit hole that is Nif, the Child-Thing" and that is why I highlighted Hard and Weird respectively even if Hard isn't Rache's main stat and Weird is Nif's. Now both Rache and Nif have an extra incentive to explore the sides of their characters I find fascinating.

EDIT: Also remember that a player can ask to have their highlights changed at the start of every session.

Spoke about these questions with a friend earlier and unbeknownst to each other he also asked a similar question here: http://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/83235/what-happens-if-a-character-has-more-than-one-gang

Feel free to answer to either of threads. I'm monitoring both.

Quote from: Munin on June 08, 2016, 01:33:02 PM

Kind of. The moves "trigger" by the fictional situation, not the other way around./quote]

Right, I'm thinking "to do it, do it", and if the MC doesn't know what happens they'll ask you to make a roll.
Some things have a rule to always be "uncertain" in this way so that the MC just can't decide something.

For example, there is some sorta corridor with a red/white checkerboard floor where the red squares are made out of very thin glass with poison pools under them. The MC tells the player about how the floor looks but not what it's made of. What do you do?

And the player goes "I'm scared, I'm just gonna run through it as fast as I can" and the MC says "after a couple of steps you hit a red square hard and it shatters, and you smell poison. What do you do?" and the player goes "I try to pull my foot up from there before getting hurt" and the MC says "OK, roll act under fire" because she doesn't know how successful the foot-up-pulling is going to be.
7-9 get hurt by glass, 6- get poisoned
But if the player described themselves as like throwing in some hard rocks in the corridor, there would be another outcome and another move engaged, or maybe no move would need to be engaged.

I think this approach would be playwise very good, but IMO the part which differentiates this from a regular saving throw is the fact that the situation in which the roll is needed is a direct consequence from the deliberate choice the PC made instead of "You walk to a narrow corridor. A trap springs: Roll to see what happens".

Quote from: lumpley on April 26, 2016, 07:55:30 AM

Coughing up doesn't have to make sense, no. It's the show's choice; if they want it to make sense, they can choose accordingly.

Strange. I assumed that if they chose a higher barter amount than the crowd could reasonably have, they are basically forcing people to destitute themselves in order to cough up in a sort of frenzy of fandom. Like, handing over their only pair of boots, or the community's one gun, offering to give over their children, etc. The Show strikes me as very closely aligned with Johnstone's Four Horsemen playbooks, or an exploitatively-played Touchstone.

In any case that will be how I'll run it, if I ever have to MC someone picking the playbook (which, ugh, just not my thing.)

I love this. Imagine, what measures a small audience giving 10-barter has to go!

The new playbook is a weird one.  It has a very cool premise and possibilities but there are also things that concern me and things I don't understand.

Crack Open the World is wicked: The open-endedness allows for some fuckery on MCs part but is also super powerful. I fear that in the worst case scenario the Show just gallops into scenes, strums their instrument and resolves it in one way or another. While the outcomes will certainly differ, this modus operandi repeating enough times is likely to get stale fast. Is it intended that the Show's rig limits this behaviour? Like, the Show needs to have their Apocalyuitar amplified in order to make sound of any kind or is this just up to players' discretion? I can see myself as MC taking away Show's stuff quite frequently just to mix it up a bit.

Then pandering to your audience. Does the cough up have to make sense? Can a single hobo  as an audience hand the leash-holder 10-barter just like that? If so, why would you ever go for anything but 10? Why are there even other options? If you can't tell, I'm a tad bit confused.

BONUS: While probably a non-issue in AW, I kinda like mechanisms in some other more dice rolling heavy RPGs which allow the GM to reward players for good role-playing. Is something similar even considered in the 2nd ed.?

Sure, I guess I'm suggesting your choice #2. If the goal is to surprise them with an ambush, I'd rather start blowing stuff up and then ask the players what they do about it. Starting them at a canyon that pauses the party and causing them to detour and upset their employers seems less grabby then just blowing up one of the cars, killing Bricker and blowing Anthrax's leg off, then opening up with a 50 caliber on the hill, bullets everywhere. Anthrax is screaming "My leg! My leg!" And you turn to the battle babe "So what do you do?"

So, I'd just turn to one of them and ask a leading question, like "where are you when Monarch's rig explodes?"

I really like this and am probably going to use this, but my goal was to give players a chance to prevent being ambushed while simultaneously avoid laying out the ambush right out of the gate. Your approach will come handy though, if there hasn't been enough action in a while.