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Monsterhearts / Choosing 'You each lose a String on one another' if you have no Strings?
« on: July 01, 2012, 02:43:26 AM »
So, Randolph the vampire is acting aloof and unobtainable after class, Shutting Down Valerie who is in a roundabout way trying to ask if he's already got a date for the Spring Formal.  He has no Strings on Valerie, Valerie has one on him.  In absence of other modifiers, if Randolph rolls a 7-9, can he choose 'you each lose a String on one another'?  In this case, only Valerie has a String to lose.  Or, does he have to pick that they exchange Conditions, like 'Dateless and Desperate' and 'Smug Prick'?

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Monsterhearts / Feature-Not-Bug in the Infernals' Unknowable?
« on: June 25, 2012, 06:40:05 AM »
Love the game, I am only picking nits because I care.  

The Infernals' Unknowable move adds "they lose 1 String on you" as a 7-9 option on Lash out physically. As I read it, it is an additional option on the list, meaning you don't need to pick one of the three defaults.  In the vast majority of situations, I don't see this as a difficult choice or hard bargain.

Is that intentional, to encourage a bit of the old ultraviolence from the skin? Because as I read it, it means 7-9 has a Yes, and result rather than Yes, but. If I was playing a Werewolf or Chosen with a liking for approaching problem resolution through the application of force, this would be a very tempting other skin move, removing as it does the mechanical downside of a 7-9.  The fictional effects of using violence to solve your problems remain very much intact, obviously, and is that where you see the consequences being?

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