In addition!

-Vincent

With Munin.

Also remember that if they've already rolled, and (in this case) missed, but they didn't tell you what they were doing to help beforehand and now you wish they had, you can just ask them. "Wait, I don't know what happened. How did you try to help?"

-Vincent

1. They do take +1forward, yes.

2. You're allowed to give them the opportunity to avoid the danger, if you want to. If you don't want to, don't do it.

They can keep the +1forward for any followup action, if there is any, unless you decide to take it away from them, which you're also allowed to do.

Here's how I might do it, this is the kind of thing I do all the time as MC:

"What should I be on the lookout for?"

"You should be on the lookout for Plover, he's been stewing this whole time, and he's finally losing it. In fact it's too late, he jumps on you and smashes you in the face, take 1-harm (ap)! He's on top of you, he's got your arms pinned under his knees, he's going to beat your head in. What do you do? You're acting under fire!"

But, like, letting them ask the question isn't a pointless dance, no matter which way you choose to take it. It's good storytelling. The player gets to be the straight man for you.

-Vincent

Tell me which passages in the text you're having trouble with and maybe I can help.

If you're looking for guidelines or a consensus that isn't in the text, I don't endorse any.

-Vincent

It's pretty much exactly what I had in mind when I designed NOT TO BE FUCKED WITH, so, yes.

I think it's important to say that he was just as unlikely to roll a miss by the 1st Ed rules. The badass gunlugger is the character LEAST affected by the change in the move.

-Vincent

Ebok, the purpose of the change is to create more space in play for the other battle moves. That's what we gain.

With this example I'm trying to show how it does that, because that's Paul's question, but I think you've already got it: in 1st Ed, if she misses the roll, you can end the battle there, and often should. In 2nd Ed, her miss signals that the battle's still on. She's achieved her most immediate goal (or chosen to abandon it), but she's paid for it in harm, the landscape of the battle has changed, and the matter is still under contest. It's the second or third move that ends the battle.

As far as her guaranteed success goes, notice that the cost she's paid in harm raises the stakes and means that for the second or third move, she can lose the battle even if she doesn't roll a miss on the move. In our example, she simply can't afford any more harm to her pickup, so she's going to have to choose her engagement with the 4-wheelers very carefully.

Hitting the first move with a 10+ means that you go into the second move with momentum and initiative. Missing the first move means that you go into the second move with lost ground to somehow make up.

-Vincent

Cool. If it were 1st Ed, what MC moves would you be considering for a miss?

-Vincent