Always on

• Hack and Slash

  When When you attack an enemy in melee.

  When you attack an enemy in melee, roll+STR. On a 10+, you deal your damage to the enemy and avoid their attack. On a 7-9, you deal your damage to the enemy and the enemy makes an attack against you.

• Volley

  When When you take careful aim and shoot at an enemy at range.

  When you take careful aim and shoot at an enemy at range, roll+DEX. On a 10+, you have a clear shot, deal your damage, and no one gets in your way. On a 7-9, you deal your damage but choose one, you have to move to get the shot placing you in danger, you have to take what you can get reducing the attack's effect, or the GM offers you a worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice.

• Defy Danger

  When When you react to a dangerous threat.

  When you react to a dangerous threat, name how you deal with it and roll. If you do it with brute force, roll+STR. If you do it with speed, grace, or quick thinking, roll+DEX. If you do it with endurance or hardiness, roll+CON. If you do it by studying the situation, roll+INT. If you do it by noticing something others missed, roll+WIS. If you do it by staying calm, bluffing, or imposing your will, roll+CHA. On a 10+, you do it. On a 7-9, you stumble, hesitate, or suffer a lesser consequence. On a 6-, the GM makes a move.

• Defend

  When When you hold position and protect someone or something.

  When you hold position and defend someone or something, roll+CON. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 1. Spend hold 1 for 1 to redirect an attack from the thing you defend to yourself, halve an attack's effect or damage, open up the attacker to an ally giving that ally +1 forward against them, or deal damage equal to your level to the attacker. On a 6-, the GM makes a move.

• Spout Lore

  When When you consult your accumulated knowledge about something.

  When you spend time closely studying a person, object, or location, roll+INT. On a 10+, hold 1. Spend hold to ask the GM a question from the list. On a 7-9, hold 1 but the GM may also ask you to expose yourself to danger, pay a price, or act on the answers. Questions include: what happened here recently, what here is useful or valuable to me, what is about to happen, what should I be on the lookout for, what here is not what it appears to be, or who is really in control here.

• Discern Realities

  When When you closely observe a situation or person.

  When you closely observe a situation or person, roll+WIS. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 1. Spend hold to ask the GM questions such as what happened here recently, what here is useful or valuable to me, what is about to happen, what should I be on the lookout for, what here is not what it appears to be, or who is really in control here. The GM will answer honestly.

• Parley

  When When you try to convince an NPC of something.

  When you try to convince an NPC of something, tell them what you want and why they should do it. Roll+CHA. On a 10+, they do what you ask if you promise something reasonable in return or make their decision align with their interests. On a 7-9, they need some concrete assurance, leverage, or payment before they comply. On a 6-, the GM makes a move and the NPC may react poorly.

• Adaptability

  When When you create a human character.

  Choose a move from another class. You have that move as if it were one of your own, subject to the usual requirements and restrictions of the move you chose.

• The One Who Waits

  When When you carry your ancestral weapon into battle.

  When you bring a weapon to bear against a foe, answer the following questions about it: how is it useful, or what makes it unique, and what does it promise about the kind of warrior you are? Your weapon is a thing of legend, and the GM will ask you questions about it and reveal its strange qualities through play.

• Herculean Appetites

  When When you create a barbarian or satisfy a chosen appetite.

  When you satisfy one of your appetites, mark XP. Choose three appetites to define your character, such as violence, fame, gold, conquest, power, ruin, or discovery. When you follow an appetite into danger, the GM will make that appetite matter in the fiction.

• The Upper Hand

  When When you strike a foe who cannot properly defend themselves.

  When you attack a foe that cannot defend themselves, or when your enemy is helpless against you, deal +1d6 damage.

• What Are You Waiting For?

  When When you have a few moments of peace after danger.

  When you have a few moments to breathe and collect yourself after danger has passed, clear one debility. If you have been driven to exhaustion, this move lets your body recover before the next storm.

• TraitHumanAdaptable, ambitious, and quick to learn from hard lessons.