I've only read Dungeon World for now, but I've played a whole lot of Apocalypse World, and in this specific regard I had the impression they don't differ.

So, Adam, I think there's nothing wrong with the other players waiting for you to tell them what are their characters doing in term of moves. That's a feature of Apocalypse World engine based games; specifically, that's how character moves and Mc moves interact with the fiction and with eachother.

When a player says: "Im' going to cut its throat with my sword," as Mc you could answer with a lot of different reactions, depending on the fiction, your preparation and your principles.

For example, it could be hack and slash, if the monster is ready to retaliate; it could be inflict harm on the monster without needing the move, if the monster is not retaliating for whatever reason; it could be defy danger, if the monster is (let's say) invisible, or surrounded by a cloud of dense gas.

Fact is, as Mc you know what the specifics of the situation and of your preparation (including, let's say, monster hidden resources) are, the other players don't. So, if they went: "I totally hack and slash that lich," you could say: "Wait! When you draw your sword from the sheat, the monster turns gas" (maybe the lich's "release a perfected spell"), depending on the fiction, your principles and your preparation. Or you could say: "No need to hack and slash, it's still distracted by the wizard's spell... Just inflict your damage!"

So, wrapping it up: I don't think there's anything wrong with palyer waiting for you call as Mc on their actions. It's the normal flow of the game.

[Obviously, everything I've said could be totally useless if DW and AW were different in this regard, but they didn't seem to be, reading DW's rules.]

I preferred by far the landscape format too, but these are nice anyway.

Right, I forgot about the holds while writing, and remembered just after clicking on "Post"! Sounds fair to me.

They seem to work, for me.

I love it! I'd reall like to see it in an actual game.

Just a couple of questions:
- is there a reason why it doesn't have a "get +1hot" move, or can't improve the stat by advancement (except by taking a move from another playbook) before the 6th?
- On 'Wanderer', it doesn't matter if you rolled a 10+ or a 7-9?
- In 'sweet lies', you make a dinstiction between pc and npc, but npcs can't roll, so the +1 and experience are useless for them.

On a side note: actually the last line of stats of the operator sums up to +2 with only Cool+2; is that intentional too, or just an oversight?

Hi Gregor, some questions/notes:

* Seidkona: what does "mark a child with the gift of sorcery" - from the improvement section - mean, exactly?

* Free Woman: there are two slots of "get a new move from your playbook", but the only case in which both could be taken it is if she started with the "Celt" move, and then picked up the "Young" move as an improvement. If she starts with Young, she can't then pick up two moves from her playbook as an improvement. Is this intentional?

* Still in the Free Woman playbook: the move "She-Wolf" has a "when you fight back clause".
How can women inflict harm/fight? With the "trade harm for harm" and "tell them possible consequences and ask" moves from the MC's list?

* Lastly: harm. There's no counter, right? When you suffer harm, you just roll on the harm move, you don't have to fill clocks or whatever, have I got this right?
In that case: the Seidkona has the option "heal 1 harm" in her Midwife move; what does it mean?

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I must tell you I really want to play it, now that I've read it. Like, REALLY.

Yeah.

That's definetely cool, I'd try it.