The waterbearer special move:
"When you and another character have sex, ask them
to do something for you. Whether they agree or
refuse in the moment, if they go on to do it, you mark
experience."

Because I'm a nit-picky weirdo, I just want to double check that it is, in fact, the waterbearer that gets to mark xp if the person they have sex with does what they want.

I'm hoping to MC another game of AW pretty soon, for the first time in a few years.  I'm pretty excited!  But I'm thinking about making changes to a couple basic rules and was hoping to get some feedback from more experienced MCs.

1) The roll-based experience gain rules.  I don't really have a problem with the stat highlighting system, but sometimes it gets a bit weird if someone takes a lot of stat substitution moves, and more to the point, I really like the idea, at least on paper, of Dungeon World's approach of "mark experience whenever you fail a roll."  I like the idea of this because it mitigates some of the pain of failing a roll, and might encourage players to diversify their tactics.  If they make moves with strong stats they have a good chance of getting what they want in the fiction, if they make moves with weak stats they have a good chance of marking xp.  So I'm considering trying this in Apocalypse World.  Are there any big problems with this that I'm missing?  I know there's a move the Solace has access to that wouldn't work, or would need to be changed, but I don't think there's any other moves that reference stat highlights are there?  Does anyone think it would have a big impact on the rate of xp gain?

2) I kind of want to change how the help and interfere move works.  In the game I MC'd in the past, it almost never got used.  This might be more to do with my friends, but even just thinking about the move in the theoretical way, I can see how it's unappealing.  Making any move carries a fairly significant risk as a fail likely results in the MC making a move against you, and even the 7-9 result on help/interfere is probably just as bad.  Add to this the fact that the results of a hit are pretty minor, and it's not very appealing.  If the rules required players to make the help/interfere roll before the other roll, I don't think it would ever get used... but if they can make it after they know what the other player got, well... helping only matters if they got exactly 6 or 9.  It seems like most people aren't likely to take the risk of a failed roll to bump a partial to a full hit, so that means they're ONLY going to try to help on a 6.

Anyway, I'd like to make the help/interfere move more appealing to use, either by cutting down the risks or improving it's effect, but I don't want to make it over powered.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Would simply increasing the effect by 1 point (i.e. +2 for helping, -3 for interfering) work without going too far, do you think? Or maybe an extra point if they get a full hit, normal effect on a partial, but no risk from a partial?

eta: I was thinking about it more and have some further ideas for tweaking help/interfere.  How about this: 10+ gives +1 to help, -2 to interfere.  You may choose to increase the effect by 1 point by exposing yourself to fire, danger, retribution, or cost. 7-9 you maybe give +1 to help or -2 to interfere but you expose yourself to fire, danger, retribution, or cost.  Or you may chicken out and choose not to help/interfere to stay safe.
This would allow players trying to play it safe to go for it and give the normal bump if they hit a 10+ and avoid risk unless they completely miss, and players willing to take on risk to help/interfere could go for it and have a greater effect if they get a full hit.

For some reason i keep brainstorming about ideas for AW hacks based on old world of darkness games.this started with wraith (i have a subforum for that here, though i haven't used it for a long time), then i toyed with werewolf ideas for awhile, now I'm back on wraith.

One idea i had while on the werewolf kick was modular playbooks. One of the big parts of chargen in the old wod game was picking which group you belonged to for 3 different kinds of groups ( a tribe,  moon phase, and whether you were born to wolf, human, our were parents) and this would affect you're starting stats as well as which magic powers you had easy access to. Thinking about this gave me the idea to do something similar for the hack. Rather than picking one big playbook, you could answer a couple questions, and each answer would give you access to a small set of moves and adjust your stats a bit. In practice, of course, there would still be a group of  playbooks, since there would be a limited number of combinations, but i kind odd liked the idea.

As i said, I'm focused on the wraith stuff again, but I'm thinking about trying this idea there, too (though so far the only question I've thought of is "who do you blame for your death?"), but I'm wondering if there are any really big disadvantages to this that i haven't thought of? The only major one I've thought of so far its I'd lose out on handy, cool, easily self-contained playbooks. What am i missing? 

Okay, so like, I've got all the limited edition playbooks.  Some I've acquired "legitimately" some I've acquired through trading.

I noticed today that they're all on the Forge bookshelf, but I don't have access to any of them except the Maestro D' (since I was a preorder-er).  I'm not exactly super-concerned about losing my files, but I was wondering if it was possible to gain access to the others on the bookshelf, at least the ones I acquired through the official means (which, in my case, is the Quarantine and the Hoarder) and if so, how would I go about making this happen?

This post doesn't have much to do with anything.

I was listening to Cop Shoot Cop yesterday, cuz I was in that kind of mood, and I heard the song We Shall Be Changed.

I really want to play that Hocus.

I wish I could link to the song, but it seems to be too obscure for my internet skills.  It totally feels like an angry Apocalypse World cult leader preaching to his followers, at least to me.

Should be having players make the Harm Move every single time anyone "harms" them regardless of how much actual harm they take?  There is, I believe, an example in the book of a player making the Harm Move even when her armor negated all the damage, so thus far in my game, I've been having the players make it every single time they are hit by a weapon or fist or bullet, even if they don't actually suffer Harm.  But last time it occurred to me that even if you're only adding 0 to the move, that's still a better than 50% chance of having something bad happen, which seems a bit harsh.

And what have more armor than the harm rating of the weapon?  Should they make the harm move and subtract from the roll?

I was re-reading the optional battle moves just now in preparation for my groups third session.  Since the first I've promised that in the future I'll allow the optional battle moves in the future so that we can try out slightly more complex, tactical combat.

there is a line, however, in the description of  maintain an untenable position or course that confuses me.

"When you maintain an untenable position or course,
roll+hard. On a 10+, you can hold it, and for 3 ticks you’ll come
under only incidental fire, even past 9:00. On a 7–9, you can
hold it, and for a tick you’ll come under only incidental fire.
Either way you can abandon it before your time is up to avoid
concentrated fire."

Emphasis mine.
This just doesn't make sense to me.  If you hit, you get a period of time (3 or 1 ticks) during which you only receive incidental rather than concentrated fire.  But you can give up your untenable position or course before that time is up to avoid concentrated fire... which you wouldn't be taking anyway.

What am I missing?