Move Creation Workshop

[Dane Regan]

Speed of Sound brings more real world stuff into Omniphysics. It's doesn't apply here. Yes, a rifle round is going to beat the sound to your target. It also depends on how close you are to the gun when it's fired.

I agree if he writes the move as concentrating or gets ES he can do this.

Speed of sound always applies. That's what would happen, so that's really what you should write. Similarly, you can't just ignore gravity in your posts because it's convenient (gross exaggeration, I know).

If he has ES, he should still concentrate, at least a bit. If he's focusing on something else he won't be able to calculate the trajectory and react. ES is the same as seeing 'everything'. If you aren't looking at something with your mind, it's going to be a bit fuzzy. Like peripheral vision.

It's a given that no move is going to block anything 100% of the time. That's why fights are graded and read. If you're bouncing around dodging everything and your opponent can't hit you no matter what, that's just poor writing. I look at a blocking move as a tool to be used if I can and reasonably. Right?

My preference is to still say that in the move, unless the reaction or execution time is made obvious. It gives a nice explicit writing prompt. Obviously, Dane won't always be able to lift his shield in time, that's implied by his stats. But if someone makes a move that says "Jimmy does X to block Y", it's not always going to be as clear. And for any moves that are a more unconventional way of doing things, I'm going to ask someone to include or at least acknowledge how hard it would be to use. I don't know whether the writer of the move thinks their move will always work, or will sometimes work. It might seem obvious to me or you, but I prefer to make sure.

So, often, I might say something like, "approved, but just remember X". Unless X is a big-ish thing, when I'll ask for a clarification. It's comparable to someone writing "A sharp sword capable of slashing through flesh with ease." Like, while they might know it won't be easy against someone with 5 DEF, do I know they know? Or "this gun can shoot accurately up to 100m". The gun might be that accurate, but is the person shooting it? Obviously, I'd never force someone to write about that in the move, but I do tend to add a comment next to my approval about that.

I want to avoid any later argument about "my move says I can do this, so I will write my character doing this".

So, yes, you're correct. But I want to get either a clarification within the move, or an acknowledgement from the move writer, about whether they understand that. Paranoid or not, it's sorting out an issue before it happens.