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What are the limits to repeating a move in Dungeon World?
You seem to have misunderstood one of the most fundamental rules of Dungeon World:
You don't make the moves
Moves just happen when their trigger is met. That means you cannot tell your GM that you ...
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As a player, am I allowed to say the name of the move I want to make?
As a player, you are absolutely* allowed to say the name of the move you want to make.
*Yeah, okay, TECHNICALLY Powered By The Apocalypse is the biggest tent which welcomes everyone in, and it's ...
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Where is the 'Show the true face of Death' move detailed?
It is a custom move for that example monster.
You can read more about how to create custom moves in the Making Moves chapter where it makes specific mention about monster moves:
Moves made by ...
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When I'm making a Powered-by-the-Apocalypse game, how do I pick good questions for moves like Read a Person?
Playtesting
Iterative improvement beats out any other process for "getting it right", whenever different people are supposed to use something. Make your best effort, then test it out and see ...
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As a player, am I allowed to say the name of the move I want to make?
In Dungeon World — like your typical PbtA game — the GM is explicitly told not to say the name of their own moves (because it "ruin[s] the consistency" and it's easier to just say what ...
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Does this proposed move cross the line? And what does that mean for me?
The problem with this move is more that it makes unworkable assumptions about how it's used than that it inherently "crosses the line".
"Crossing the line", remember, is when you ...
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How should this murder committed by a PC be resolved?
It's up to the GM, both options are correct
The Hack and Slash move description has this exact case mentioned:
If the enemy isn’t prepared for your attack—if they don’t know you’re there or they’re ...
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Does this proposed move cross the line? And what does that mean for me?
Yes, I think the move crosses the line
The player is given control over the narrative outside of their character's actions.
That being said the choice given to the player is minor and I would not ...
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Help Me Understand Move Sequencing / Time-Management
PbtA games have no action economy
You are correct: there is no rule "one move per player", because moves aren't supposed to quantize time in a PbtA game. Such a game doesn't use a concept of ...
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When I'm making a Powered-by-the-Apocalypse game, how do I pick good questions for moves like Read a Person?
Let the specific genre of your game guide you
There’s some great advice in the other answers, but I’d add that one of the reasons for PBtA’s popularity and the number of games made with it is that it’...
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Where is the 'Show the true face of Death' move detailed?
It's detailed the same place "judge the living" and "freeze them with a touch" are detailed.
That place is inside your head. And, later, in the narrative.
Every monster has moves ...
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How am I supposed to handle disruption in a Perilous Journey?
Let it ride.
It's interesting that you use "the perilous wilds" - that's actually the name of a Dungeon World supplement from Lampblack and Brimstone, the same publishers of the Freebooters ...
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Does this proposed move cross the line? And what does that mean for me?
The problem with this move is that it assumes too much about the intent, and then slaloms about the line. A 7+ is a hit, so it should give at least the basics of what the player wanted.
But what does ...
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When do you choose the spell for the Prodigy move?
The spell is chosen when you get the move.
A move that activated when you prepare spells would say "when you prepare spells" - The Wizard has no stock moves that work like this, but The ...
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How should this murder committed by a PC be resolved?
Since you say the game "has to start" this way, and you've clearly already planned out exactly how it will/should happen (as opposed to "play to find out"), I would, as a GM, treat ...
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How should this murder committed by a PC be resolved?
If I were the GM on this, I'd question every preliminary assumption you made as a player to pull this off, but once you have gone past those, the murder part is just straight out murder.
What do you ...
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Who is healed when you Make Camp?
Any companions means all your companions. It is in plural form.
If you recuperate or partake, you can also apply those benefits to your companions (NPC assets—see page 39).
Please note that ...
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When I'm making a Powered-by-the-Apocalypse game, how do I pick good questions for moves like Read a Person?
Information doesn't just solve problems.
Or, stated in a less attention-grabby way, the kind of information that does solve problems isn't the kind of information you just get by making one move.
Read ...
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Where can I find examples of NPC heroes' Moves for "Masks: a New Generation"?
This answer is written assuming that you meant to ask for advice about how to write such moves. If you really were just looking for published examples, Jadasc's answer covers that.
GM and NPC Moves ...
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Where can I find examples of NPC heroes' Moves for "Masks: a New Generation"?
Nowhere.
NPCs in Masks are detailed on pages 153-154 of the main M:ANG rulebook. They don't get moves, even when superhuman, just a Drive or maybe abilities. Instead, you as MC utilize them as ...
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Help Me Understand Move Sequencing / Time-Management
The spotlight moves at a dramatic pace, not a mechanical one.
There absolutely is a PbtA corebook - it's Apocalypse World.
Is Apocalypse World an inspiration for your game? Enough so that you want to ...
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How does the lifestyle move work in the first session?
At the start of the first session, everyone pays 1-barter and goes on to live the 1-barter lifestyle.
Imagine that there are three (or more) qualities of life available. The first is the typical ...
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What to roll when attacked in KULT: Divinity Lost?
What you roll depends on how ready you were.
There's, like, three main scenarios for what happens when you're talking to a violent maniac and they shed their thin veneer of civilization and attack you ...
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Where can I find examples of NPC heroes' Moves for "Masks: a New Generation"?
What are you talking about? Brass Brilliant's always been a hero.
You weren't around for the 80s, things were wild back then after the Avatars escaped. Some vigilante named Oculus just started ...
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In Farflung, how do the Last of Their Kind counsel points work?
Hx and Fx points do move between players occasionally.
At the end of each session of play, the player will get to rearrange all their points in time. That time will be when you can empty out these ...
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