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Apocalypse World / Re: Apocalypse World 2nd Edition
« on: August 05, 2015, 11:29:01 AM »
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It's the first google hit for "john harper seize by force" ;)

Well that explains it, I kept using forum search! The "click" was once I read these comments:

"@Christian: The trouble is, when you make the Seize by force move, you automatically get shot (you suffer the enemy's harm when you make the move, succeed or fail). This rarely matches what the character is doing in the fiction. Usually, they're trying to take cover, move around, stick their head out and shoot when they can, etc. That's acting under fire and going aggro, IMO.

John Harper10:52 AM
For what it's worth, I don't think I'm saying anything very controversial.

p. 197 of AW ("Acting With Violence") is pretty much how I run it. It's just that "harm for harm, toe to toe" is not how the savvy wastelander -- with limited access to medical care -- does her violence. So, seize is pretty rare in play (not absent, just rare)."

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Apocalypse World / Re: Apocalypse World 2nd Edition
« on: August 04, 2015, 11:58:49 AM »
I already started playing hacked AW2E in weekly games. It is Great fun. I am interested in seeing how the other changes end up, and of course, will be adding the book into the collection regardless.

I never did have any issue understanding the potential of the base moves though. I'm really not sure which part confused people in AW1E. Looking forward for the new rule-pieces to chop up into other stuff >:D

After John Harper explained seize by force as "when you're more interested in what the other(s) got, instead of what they can do" it clicked. The other moves are great, though I needed to play to understand how play (i.e. fiction) dictates what moves are rolled.


I really love the change-stat-moves, but I think I'd like more moves for at least Cool and Weird, though I realize that awesome campaign-defining moves help roll for those stats were the moves are substituted.

I've been trying to find these John Harper explanations of Seize by Force I keep hearing about and I'm having a hard time, could you give me a link to them?

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Apocalypse World / Re: The Grotesque playbook question
« on: June 27, 2015, 08:21:33 PM »
Hey, I'm resurrecting this ancient thread because I'm having the same issue as the original post. Could anybody help out?

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