Player Moves

- Manipulate Someone

Get someone to do what you want, provided you've given them some kind of reason to do so. Can work on other hunters, can not work on monsters.

• 10+ If you immediately keep your word, they'll do it!
• 7-9 Prove that you really mean it, and they'll do it
• 1-6 They don't do it, and are upset by your actions

- Act Under Pressure

Any action taken while trying to deal with undue stress or danger--or anything else that counts as pressure.

• 10+ You succeed as intended!
• 7-9 You'll be offered a cost or compromised outcome
• 1-6 The book says, verbatim, "things go to hell"

- Help Out

Help another player with a move they're currently making, with in-universe justification.

• 10+ Grant the other player +1 to their roll
• 7-9 Grant +1 but at risk to yourself
• 1-6 You only put yourself at risk

- Investigate A Mystery

Anything that might help you gather information about the events at hand, as long as it's plausible and narratively consistent. Information you can ask the Keeper about is limited to the following topics:

1. What happened here?
2. What sort of creature is it?
3. What can it do?
4. What can hurt it?
5. Where did it go?
6. What was it going to do?
7. What is being concealed here?

• 10+ Pick two topics from the list
• 7-9 Pick one topic from the list
• 1-6 You reveal information by mistake

- Read A Bad Situation

Self-explanatory. If you make further moves based on what you learn, those moves get +1 as long as the information is actively relevant. You can assess the following things:

1. What's my best way in?
2. What's my best way out?
3. Are there any dangers we haven't noticed?
4. What's the biggest threat?
5. What's most vulnerable to me?
6. What's the best way to protect the victims?

• 10+ Pick three things to assess
• 7-9 Pick one thing to assess
• 1-6 You misread things or reveal something by mistake

- Kick Some Ass

Combat, combat, combat! Fight something while it fights back. The harm your hunter is capable of inflicting is based on their available weaponry and gear. Good rolls can grant you the following modifiers:

1. You, or another hunter, add +1 to your next roll.
2. Deal more harm (+1) to your target.
3. Take less harm (-1) during your current move.
4. Force your target where you want them.

• 10+ Pick one modifier to apply to your move
• 7-9 You deal harm, you take harm
• 1-6 Quote, "you get your ass kicked"

- Protect Someone

Prevent somebody else from taking harm! With justification, of course. Often this means taking the harm yourself. Good rolls can grant you the following modifiers:

1. Take one (-1) less harm.
2. Draw the focus of ongoing danger onto yourself.
3. Inflict harm on the enemy you're protecting from.
4. Hold the enemy back.

• 10+ You succeed, and pick one modifier to apply
• 7-9 You succeed, taking the brunt of the damage
• 1-6 Your interference makes things worse

Effects

1. Inflict harm (1 harm, #magic, #ignore armor)
2. Enchant a weapon (+1 harm, #magic)
3. Do something beyond human limitations
4. Keep someone or something from somewhere
5. Trap someone or something specific
6. Evict a spirit or curse from someone or something
7. Summon a creature
8. Communicate with someone or something
9. Observe another time or place
10. Heal 1 harm, cure disease, neutralize poison