Hey all.. I'm still getting acquainted with fronts work and their peculiar flexibility. (Yeah, just in time for them to be replaced in 2E.)
I've got an Angel in my game. One of his infirmary crew is Shigusa, a junkie who's been toying with the bluish paste that's gotten popular around town and is becoming less and less reliable as an employee. If the Angel continues to do nothing about it, soon she's really gonna fuck it up and somebody's going die for it.
I'm making her a threat. I was just curious how you all would handle, as a threat, a so far good-intentioned junkie whose drug use threatens to destabilize the Angel's shit. Make her a Grotesque: Cannibal? Write up her addiction as Affliction: Condition? Just use her in other threats' countdowns?
I'm not sure what to do with the selection of threat types I have here. Thanks for any help!

Hey, new GM here getting ready to break a group new to rpgs into Dungeon World and I'd like to make sure it goes smoothly!
The book stresses going in with only a handful of ideas and to build the world and story with the players in the first session. We're all really into that idea. I know some people like to prepare stuff before hand but I'd really like to learn to ask questions and use what they give you like a pro. Not only do I think it'll be more engaging to create the world together, it also seems like a smoother transition for players new to rpgs to ease into something that's being built slowly.

But how do you guys go from almost nothing to having enough going on to keep the first session moving? Maybe I'm worrying too much and by the end of character creation things will spin up pretty naturally, but thinking it out I can't see the process of how I'll build answers to questions into an engaging first session. Those of you who drop players right in with the "You're being attacked by ______! What are you doing here?" technique, how do you rev the first session up into the beginning of a campaign?

 So I took my players through our second session last night. For me getting specific examples is one of the most helpful ways to learn this game and I just wanted to ask a few questions. I'll run through this scene outside a bar because a lot of rolls happened. Sorry if this is really dense and overly mechanical, I'm trying to really pick apart what happened to see how all the gears fit together.



Gritch the brainer and Duke the gunlugger got in a tussle with some NPCs: smalltime bad boy Dremmer and his lackeys White and Preen.
White and Preen have just dragged Gritch out of a bar and they're holding him by an arm each. He's not struggling and doesn't seem to care at all. Duke's come outside with her whiskey to see what happens. Dremmer gives Gritch one last chance to hand over his violation glove without getting the shit beat out him (they don't know what it does but they were hired to get it). What do you do? Gritch responds by trying to use the glove on Preen. I wasn't totally sure how to handle it, but I called for a Seize by Force, the thing seized being the chance to fuck with Preen's brain. Gritch rolls an 8 and chooses to take definite hold of Preen's face and impress, dismay, or frighten his enemy. He now deep brain scans Preen and asks in what ways Preen's mind and soul are vulnerable. (the old lady Shazza who works at Duke's Kitchen was like a mother to her in years past and it'd be a real shame if something happened to her.) While Preen is on the ground reeling and everybody else is watching, stunned, Gritch puts the glove in front of White's face. Go aggro: he rolls a 7 and White backs off calmly, hands where he can see.

At this point, Dremmer has come to his senses and pulls out his gun and points it at Gritch's face: "What do you do?" Duke's player jumps in and says, "I shoot him." Again I wasn't sure how exactly to handle it, I went with seize by force but I didn't have Dremmer shoot back because he wasn't paying any attention to Duke, he was set on the freaky brainer. Duke nails the roll with a 10 and choose to inflict terrible harm: her shotgun tears the top half off of Dremmer - and impress, dismay, or frighten her enemy: White turns around and books it. Now Preen's coming to her senses and White's on the run, what do you do? Gritch decides to tackle White and kill him with his scalpel: I go with seize by force again. He rolls 9, takes definite hold of White, and saws through his artery with the scalpel.

Duke now wants to shoot Preen in the leg to keep her from getting up and running off. I have no idea what to do with this so I fudge it by letting her seize by force again but only making her deal 1 harm. She and Gritch hogtie Preen and they haven't decided what to do with her yet.




So I feel like I don't really understand the intended purpose of seize by force and I ended up kind of using it to fall back on when I wasn't sure what to do. It never really felt like the right choice because in each case the other person wasn't really fighting back. How would you have handled using the violation glove on Preen? Should I have let him deep brain scan, without a basic move? Likewise with Duke shooting Dremmer while he wasn't paying attention - better done with go aggro because he wasn't fighting back? Or no move at all? It seems like a pretty drastic action to take without making a roll. Same with tackling White who was busy running away, and shooting Preen in the leg while she was trying to get up.

Any thoughts at all would be greatly appreciated, I know it's a lot to drudge through and I hope it's not too presumptuous to give you guys my big ol' mess to sift through. Any little tidbit of advice will make my day :)

I'm going to be running a game of Monsterhearts soon and as MC I'm gonna be teaching the game to my players. They've never played any kind of RPG before but they're excited to give this a try. So I'd like to make it really simple for them. My question is, are there parts of the book that they really need to hear? I'll probably read them some of the introductory stuff about What This Is and Queer Content and such. Is there anything else you like to read to your players before you begin?