thread: 2010-04-26 : The MC, a GM
On 2010-04-27, Chris wrote:
Yeah, my impression on encountering the MC Moves was just that: this is simply how to run a post-apoc game with ANY system. Same with Fronts; they're just an organizational tool for how GMs, in my opinion, should already be running their games.
That said, it's not bad that they're in the book or anything and I can't imagine anyone thinking so. The only problem I've seen with them is when GMs lose common sense and take some of the smaller sentences as absolute gospel. For instance, the whole "first sessions should just follow the characters around" becomes "Oh, there should be NO conflict AT ALL in the first session, Vincent says so" even though that contradicts the MC Moves, which I take to apply to first sessions as well.
So you end up with people NOT doing any of the MC Moves for the first session because there's a blurb about following the characters around.
