Added the sniper from 2.1 and now he needs a death move. Suggestions?

So after this summer's initial test on the Regiment rules set I decided to try out something a little different. Next Monday I'll be running a mission that takes place "Now" and deals with one of the first contacts with hostile alien lifeforms.

I posted about this on the Google+ community to get ideas and advices (with quite good results I might add) but since most of my players visit it more often than this forum I think I should open a discussion here too.

The plan for the session is quite simple in structure. The players have been sent to wipe out an enemy scout vehicle. The mission begins with shooting down the UFO with the aerial combat determining how to Engage the site. At this point it just means that either they will shoot down the UFO or it will drop them. In any case the squad will encounter the aliens.

As we have had some success with scenarios making a linked campaign I'm considering this to be "the 1st mission". Other may follow or not. Depending on how the action turns out and how the players liked the whole thing. The whole session is heavily influenced by XCOM PC-game series but most likely I will use it only as inspirational material so my players cannot relay on their OOC information.

All comments and ideas are more that welcome!

Getting EXP for each roll will certainly break the game sooner than later. Unless you want the characters to exp out in a single nights session or just kill them when they miss a roll. I went with "an exp for each roll with certain stat approach" with my hack. For one session. One player managed to accumulate 12 exp powerplaying the stat.

I think I also pointed out this. I can understand the you as a developer do not like inter-party conflicts. However AW is a game of inter-party conflicts and because of that I (for one) would assume most players would be searching for this kind of move if it was not there. Maybe including it as a peripheral move (as in "you may include this in your games if you think it makes sense") would be a good idea.

Is there any other way to heal damage than Face Defeat? Can't find any.

For crying out loud! I promised my playing group we would be playing this next Wednesday and finish of the night with a little King of Tokio. Now I cannot find the fourth draft!

The advance system still sounds a bit overly complicated. I know that basic character development would be a neat thing but you have to consider that as the original work was not founded on such adding it on at a later point can become difficult. The best thing in this matter has been in Dungeon World. You could probably add a sheet for each career and allow characters to pull moves from them as they advance. But since you have a larger base of careers and each character has more than one this might also prove difficult.

Maybe you could do something a bit similar than in Lady Blackbird? Turn the careers into "keys" with "whenever you act accordingly to you career mark one exp." (or something similar). This would steer the players to act their characters according to their career. The advances could then be used to a broad list of new moves (that could have tags for suitable careers and amount of experience?). This way the players could get a character they like and I guarantee they would be going through these advancement list each session (you could actually write them in a way that the player would need to "hit a certain trigger event" before they could buy them).

Moving the Quarters out from the skills is a good idea. I would maybe put them into the trappings section so that the players would have to choose between quarters and something else. Or maybe you could provide them with a list of possible quarters with different tags (good security, but limited space / bad security, large space etc.)?

Yes. Though my experience as a player is a bit limited also as it has been over a decade since I was a player in a scifi game.