Popped open my Armour Astir PDF to read a bit more about the B-Plot move after hearing it mentioned on Friends at the Table, and maaaaan, what a cool mechanic.
You get a 3 points of a resource you can spend, 1-for-1 on the following.
- Give another player confidence on their next move, but complicate things for yourself.
- Deny an actor from appearing during the Sortie—they’re busy, possibly with the same thing as you.
- Spend some time and frame a Downtime Scene.
- Cut away from the Sortie during a moment when time is precious, giving everyone room to think.
Confidence lets you treat every 1 on the roll as a 6, so that's Extremely good, because it helps keep the bottom from falling out on an important roll.
Keeping an actor could keep specific reinforcements from arriving during an escape or a rival is kept at bay when they would overwhelm the main group.
A Downtime Scene during a mission is incredibly cool. These are things like listening to conversations, healing, and gathering resources, which can advance your long term projects or turn the tide for your faction.
- And the last one is to just relieve some tension to give the group in the "main" part of the mission some breath. It's literally a cutaway during a tense moment to leave the audience on a suspension point.
Very Very Cool, IMO
