This has probably been covered in the past, but in case it hasn’t, I just had the notion of yet another way to…

This has probably been covered in the past, but in case it hasn’t, I just had the notion of yet another way to…

This has probably been covered in the past, but in case it hasn’t, I just had the notion of yet another way to improve bonds, very simply.

Rewrite them as move triggers.

________ does not understand me, or my culture. I will explain myself to them, no matter how long it takes.

becomes something like…

When ______ misunderstands me or my culture, I will explain myself to them, no matter how long it takes.

The difference is subtle and easy to write off, but I think it increases the chance of players interacting with them, since they are already primed to look for similar triggers.

5 thoughts on “This has probably been covered in the past, but in case it hasn’t, I just had the notion of yet another way to…”

  1. Ive never encountered this, and I love it. Instead of alignment giving exp, every time they are true to a bond triggering, perhaps that awards exp. Maybe they are written in a way that complicates their lives.

  2. Triggers are supposed to be absolute: when X, Y happens.

    Here, the move says “when X, the character will do Y”

    It means the character is forced to behave in a certain way when something happens. He loses his free will.

    Also, it doesn’t increase the probability of the bond being triggered; actually it will worsen it, because, to use the example provided, PJ1 has misunderstood the culture of PJ2 in the past, and is is sufficient to make use of the bond (which means, PJ2 can get bonuses to help/interfere and the fiction can be enhanced by this link).

    If you write it off as a move, you have to actually wait for an occurence of it in the fiction to show it off.

  4. I like the idea of bonds having an actionable “I will” clause, but don’t think they require a trigger. In your example, it’s changing the assumption of the bond that X has already misunderstood my culture, to a trigger of X somehow explicitly misunderstanding my culture at some specific point in time in the future. It strikes me as harder to trigger actually.

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