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the three-headed horror, i think to myself, just how bad is that, exactly? to the inhabitants of threshport, it's the worst thing around, but according to my players, it's known for snatching children, not i quickly jot down the essentials, but i don't give it any moves, since with improvised monsters i like to just let moves emerge through i tell them that some time in the mid-afternoon, still pushing through the jungle, they hear the beating of mighty wings behind them. what everyone describes taking cover except one player, who asks, how much of a forest canopy is there? and since i have no ready answer, i ask what; on a 6-, do not mark xp, and you get the opposite of what you hoped for. i love this move because i can go to it whenever i find myself hesitating to answer a player's question about a situation. if i have a clear mental image, or i've already made a decision about the object of the question, i run with that; but if it's totally up in the air, i'll ask them to get lucky and riff on the result. in this case, the player rolled a 10+, so yes: plenty of tree cover, you look behind and see the upper limbs of the tallest trees waving as something really big swoops over them, in your direction. so everybody tries to hide. and i ask rowe, the character with the lowest dexterity, to make a saving throw with dexterity...+str to use sheer muscle..+dex to use speed and agility..+wis to perceive or intuit..+cha to charm your way out on a 10+, you do it, as well as one could hope; on a 7-9, you do it, but there’s a catch—the judge will offer you a worse outcome, hard (yeah, yeah, it's pretty much just defy danger, i know. forgive a guy his nostalgia for nomenclature) i only ask rowe to make the roll because in this kind of situation—a bunch of characters doing the same thing and hoping for a positive result—i think it's most efficient and satisfying to have the responsibility fall to the least competent character. it might be