Clarify how closely a Move corresponds to a Challenge
I was having a discussion with one of my friends and we are at odds as to how closely you're supposed to write a Move when having it address a Character Challenge. He is under the impression that the Move can be almost anything nominally related to the Character, and I feel that the Move should be more describing how your character is furthering the Challenge in some kind of apparent-to-the-reader way.
Loren
shared this idea
The Player Guide outlines how to address a challenge with a character move here: https://storium.com/help/making-moves#anatomy-of-a-move
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Schevus Osborne
commented
The problem with that comes in with the word limit. Of course, there is the option to make consecutive moves back to back, but that doesn't really clear up the problem, as the subtlety would in theory still be reflected in the early move.
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Scott Dunphy
commented
Schevus, do you know that you can play multiple cards in a single move? It seems to me you could narrate that build up and supporting action and then the supported action in one move and narration.
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Schevus Osborne
commented
As the friend, I wanted to clarify my position. I don't think you should be allowed to play a card for "almost anything nominally related to the Character". Rather, I think you should be allowed to play cards for moves that are not obviously working toward completing the challenge during that move, but which will be built upon with another card on a later move. The card still must be a pertinent attribute displayed during the move, in my opinion.
This allows for some subtlety in your actions that is not possible if the method being used to achieve the challenge is obvious to the reader with every move.