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 