Here's another two points!

• Helping mechanic, no interfere? It seems weird not to have an interference move, either basic or playbook?
• In the playbooks (available, plus inferred from the todo names), I don't see any one who's like the string-pulling manipulator, maybe a spymaster or merchant, type. Or a kingmaker. Is this an intentional omission, because it seems pretty fitting from my seat, but what ever do I know?

- Alex

Oh, yep, right on!
I mean, the implication that monsters are usually a terror to their own children would be kind of interesting, too.
But the children of your children makes a lot of sense.

- A

So, I'm reading in preparation for my game friday. I'll update it then, of course, with anything that occurs to us.

First though!

• When someone helps you, why do you say what they need to do and not they say what they do?
• There's no catch all risky thing move, not as much as Act Under Fire was. There's Hold Steady, but it doesn't feel as general. Intentional?
• "It will be a terror to our children and theirs."... "theirs" is who? Itself?
• The link to "Improvising NPCs: ‘X but Y’" fails (goes to a different page on the same site)
• The word "might" in (mostly) the Troll-Killer is a bit troubling. For example, "Might protect you from creatures whose claws or teeth pierce iron."... who decides that? The player? The MC? Or is "Might" meant to be a conditional thing, like "Might protect you from creatures whose claws or teeth pierce iron, if you've bathed it in a moonlit lake in the last fortnight"?
• War-heralds need to muster after winter. I assume if you don't let your warband disperse for winter, it's almost always giving them an order they'd rather not obey?
• Wise in council and supplicant stack?
• Is the Wolfspell ceremony intentionally blank?

I think that's it!
Thanks,

- Alex

Best thing is to slow down and go step by step.

So, right, there's a guy who's armored and armed. He's just standing out there firing away?
Various PCs and NPCs are positioned around the battlefield, sure.

Someone speaks up, says "I pop up for cover, fire off a few shots, and then duck back down.".
I can do a few things here, depending on the situation, my principles, etc.

"Hey, sure thing! He's focusing most of your fire elsewhere right now, but if you keep your head up too long, he'll turn the barrel on you. You'll need to move damn fast.", and then your player's like "Sure thing! I pop up, bang bang, drop down.", and then you're all "Sure thing! His armor soaks most of the hits, but... {roll and describe harm move here}. Alas, he's on to you now and he's spraying suppressing fire right over your head!" and then you turn to another PC and say "Hey, so-and-so is under a hail of bullets right now, and so-and-so-other-player is surrounded by goons. What do you do?".

"Sure, but as soon as you're up he'll swing his barrel around to you. It'll be seizing by force, so you should probably also figure out a solid objective." (Resolve SBF here)

"Well, sure, but your gun'll probably just bounce off his armor. If you can get a distraction, though, you can get a shot in at his soft, unprotected side and do straight harm." turn to another player, say "Hey, so-and-so, you're holding a grenade right now, right?" and so-and-so says "Hey, shit, yeah... but those fuckers are pricey.", and you say "Well, yep, but you send it off, you'll knock the big guy off guard, let other-player get in a solid shot, and probably scare off a few goons to boot. What do you do?". And then the first guy, other-player, is like "Well, what if there's no distraction?" and I'm like "Well, most of his attention is elsewhere, so it'd probably be you going aggro against him, which might or might not go in your favor.".

Anyhow, just go step-by-step, follow the flow, and swing the spotlight around.
Does that help any?
Do you have more questions?

I'd be glad to follow up!
- Alex

Obscure!?

The 'no status quo' status quo:...In order to preserve player agency, and in order to make the 'no status quo' principle ring true, there needs to be room for lasting, positive change of the setting.

I usually leave this to be where the advanced improvements come in...
12+ on manipulate, 12+ on act under fire, retire to safety, and a few others I'm forgetting, go a long way to actually *building* this sort of lasting change...

I think it's unsaid, but the real way to move towards a resolution is to slowly move away from "no status quo" as the players advance, especially as they hit 6-9 advancements or more...

Just my thoughts!
- Alex

It really depends on what the scale is on the price of the dice as well as the pocket-depth of the players. If each die is, for example, $20, then buying five may be unreasonable for some or all players (enough for an advancement). Conversely, if the dice are .10 each, then it will be easy to max out advancement...

- Alex