This is an idea I had, not sure about it.
Oath
When someone asks you to do something important for them and you do it, if you hold no debt, roll+CHA. On a 10+, hold 2 debt against them. On a 7-9, hold 1 debt against them. When you ask them to do something for you and they do it, reduce their debt by 1. If they refuse you, spend a debt to have the GM make one of these hard moves against them, your choice:
· Deal damage.
· Separate them.
· Turn their move back on them.
· Use up their resources.
Only one person can be in debt to you at a time because of oaths.
What’s the fictional link between not doing something for you and being hit with a hard move? Is it a magical oath?
That bit would leave me feeling a bit naked as a MC.
Yeah, I assume it’s magic, fae, god-powered, infernal, etc.
Ok, yeah in that context it seems pretty cool to me.
Can we add “murder your whole family and your dog” to the list of hard moves? 😉
Seriously though, reminds me of the old Geas spell, only making more sense and cooler.
Couldn’t it just be narrative justice/poetic justice/fairytale logic? There’s a lot of non-magical examples in fiction of the universe punishing traitors and oathbreakers.
Sure, I suppose. The Prophetic Curse move I wrote for The Last Child didn’t have an explanation either (aside from roll+weird).
One has to wonder if this has anything to do with Sunday’s Game of Thrones? 😀
Guy Schamp , see my above comment 🙂
Ach, didn’t see it when I posted. 😛
I really like this it gives players a move other attacking other players to exhort control in a situation in pvp confrentations. We could have used this tonight when the fighter sent my cleric to deaths gate via the prime material plane when I failed my astral recovery roll when he killed me on the Astral plane.
Ha ha! I totally didn’t write this because of Game of Thrones, but that’s a pretty funny coincidence. I guess I should put it in my GoT hack…
Kasper Brohus , considering your latest blog post did you see this?
Craig Hatler I did now 🙂 It seems to be a move to create inter-party conflict 😉