The Bard has a move called Charming and Open which says “When you speak frankly with someone, you can ask their player a question from the list below.”
Does this mean the move is only applicable to other players? I see no reason this shouldn’t be a general move usable on (almost?) any character in which case it could say “you can ask them a question”.
The DM is the player of NPCs. Easy as that. 🙂
I thought of that, which is why I pointed out the rewording which would make more sense. If that was your intention when writing it isn’t that the wording you’d use?
Hm, based on the move Devious, I think it’s just an odd choice of words.
The point is that you don’t ask “the character”, because the question-asking is something that doesn’t necessarily occur literally within the fiction.
You ask the player because characters can lie. The implication is that you get a true, out-of-character answer that can come to you in the fiction in a way other than words out of the character’s mouth. And yeah, good for NPCs too.
Yup, what Colter and Donald said.
Yep, exactly. The point is that your character and their character are talking as normal, but you (the player) get to ask the other player a question and they have to answer you.
I see. Thanks for the clarification.
It’s a very rare move (maybe the only one of its kind) because get to take a step back from the fiction and examine it from outside. It’s super powerful.
It’s Dungeon World showing it’s Apocalypse World roots.
Also been discussed there (check the end of the post):
https://plus.google.com/101186759054914157594/posts/gcVrDcHgjow