I'm having a little trouble grasping "If they refuse, it's defying danger".

What does that mean?  They have to defy danger in order to refuse?  Or is it something else?  For that matter, what's the "danger" supposed to be in a typical PC on PC parley?  Is the "danger" that they agree to the terms anyway?

Any insight would be helpful.

I wonder if Defy Danger might use some clarification.

"On a 7-9, you stumble, hesitate, or flinch: the GM will offer you a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice."

These are just words, I realize, but they could probably use some notes.

Worse outcome:
So, basically what they wanted, but not as good or with some complication?

Hard bargain:
I honestly don't really know what this means.  Anything I envision seems more like an "ugly choice".

Ugly choice:
I read this as "difficult choice" (so, the same as a "spot"?), but "ugly" might not mean the same to somebody else.

So, maybe somebody could explain "hard bargain" to me at least.

Should we be pointing these out?

Group damage example says:

"The gang deals its damage to the fighter, rolling 5 and adding their level for each step of difference (+2 total) for a total of 7 damage.

Ok, not that interesting.

Really, I wanted to know how "unarmed" attacks work.  As it stands, an unarmed Fighter is just as dangerous as a Fighter with a dagger (but with less Weight).

So, should PCs be able to damage foes with their fists at all?

If so, is it like, "Hand, -1 Damage"?

Or perhaps this is served well enough by assuming that punching is damaging enough, but trying to punch a guy with a knife leaves you in danger of getting cut on the way in?

Anyway, just something that will probably come up and probably ought to be addressed.

Maybe somebody can offer me some advice here.

My spellcasters, the Paladin, Cleric, Wizard and Bard, all cast spells a lot.  Occasionally they miss.  Occasionally they hit.  Mostly, they roll 7-9.

I find myself hard pressed to provide them with unwelcome attention or a "spot" (which is the option they almost always choose).

If they're in combat, somebody starts targeting them, sure, but many times there's just nothing going on.

Recently, the unwelcome truth was revealed that the evil wizard had activated his army of bronze minotaurs.  A sudden, deep, metallic lowing echoed through the caverns.  The players reacted by casting Magic Weapon and Sanctuary.  They each hit with 7-9... but there was just nothing going on.  Nobody to pay them unwanted attention and no tough choices to make.

As it happens, I pulled something out of the air about the casting being difficult down here and it would either take a long time or they could force it (-1 spellcasting forward), but I'm quickly running out of ideas.

If this was 1985, I guess I'd just go with my gut ("well, it's obvious what this means!"), but the internet has made me weak and spoiled, so I'll ask.

The monster moves.  Those are just more GM moves, right?  A subset of "Use a Monster..."?  You would use them if the player flubbed a roll, or asked, "What does the monster do now" or just plain ignored the thing, right?

So there, I ask.  Conan would be so ashamed of me.

Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but I'm not sure how best to use weapons' "range" tags.

Like, if you've got a dagger and that guy's got a sword, is it probably "Defy Danger" to get on the inside?  Is it Defying Danger to for him backpedal, or push me and my dagger back to close range?

If I do get my dagger in close, it's "tricky" for him to fight me, but what does that mean?  And what if he had a spear, instead?  Could he just use it like a staff ("tricky" up close)?

I'm trying to lead with the fiction here, but I'm not sure exactly how best to apply the rules to that fiction.

Adventuring Gear puzzles me a bit.

Is it just an amorphous blob of "stuff", to be defined the moment it is used or does the player say (fiction and all, you know) "I'm buying torches, so that's one adventuring gear" or even "I buy some torches and a pole and some lock-picks, and that fills out my 3 expendables from my adventuring gear"?