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The TTB Core Rules also talk about the Piper's Plague and the Event.

Yup.

I've always understood it to mean "Negative Play Experience," at least going back to my CCG days. If you're intending for it to mean "New Player Experience," then it will obviously mean something different.

NPE is closer to "a thing that saps all the fun and enjoyment out of a game." It's less about whether or not you can win the match (though that's certainly an element of it).

They're from one of the original Horomatangi myths. And they're absolutely a Shobijin reference as well, because... Kaiju.

The character can only fail a duel once, so no. Reflipping the card is just like rerolling a die; you're re-randomizing the process, rather than making a completely new duel. I'll toss it into the FAQ to clarify.

This is actually on my list for May errata! Essentially, Know-It-All is changing to once per Challenge to prevent this sort of loop.

This is correct. Buried models are not considered to be in play, and Sisters in Fury and Sisters in Battle both only buff Sisters in play.

There's more info on the Red Cage in the TTB book "Into the Bayou," including info on the creatures that came out of the resulting crater.

Aspects range from -5 to 5, so the character in question can increase her Aspect all the way up to 5. Correct. Similarly, Fatemaster characters don't flip cards for skills or Defense/Willpower flips, but they still flip cards for damage.

There will be a few extra Complications and other bits, but the core of the campaign will be the same as the global campaign.

This is the campaign.

Minimum two, maximum probably around 5 or so.

The Brilliance Condition is described in detail in Under Quarantine.

Treat them as Minion (5). Remember that they flip cards like Fated characters when they receive the (1) Order action.

It's made-up Neverborn-speak.

The information is in the relevant Fatemaster forum in the TTB section. If you can't see that, it means that you just haven't been added yet. We do a pass every day to add new people to the forum, so if you're still not seeing the Fatemaster forum by this time tomorrow, let me know.

Yes, crafting items uses Skill Rank, not Acting Value. When building a construct, the character gains Construct Points equal to her Artefacting Rank * the Construct's Height. Intellect doesn't come into the picture.

That's how it was in first edition. Cheating Fate is an integral part of the Malifaux universe, so locking it away behind a skill rank just didn't feel right to me. When I was researching how best to update TTB to second edition, I found that players would often put 1 rank into "must have" skills in order to unlock cheating with that skill, and that tracking which skills players could and could not cheat was a chore. Opening cheating up to every skill, regardless of ranks, was a nice little bit of streamlining that smoothed out gameplay and allowed characters to be more flavorful and broadly capable. That being said, if it works in your game, roll with it. ;)

Characters do not need ranks in a skill to use that skill; they are simply treated as having a "0" in that skill when making a check. Yup. You need Skill Ranks to get Triggers, but raw natural talent can still sometimes eclipse hard work and training, even in the real world. The people who have both usually become quite famous in their field.

I have plenty of plans. :D

Prepare to be shocked.

Some priorities shifted once I took over. For instance, there's really no "Great Guild Wars" planned for Earth; now, we just have the spreading war that is The Other Side. Similarly, Avatars just aren't a thing that anyone in Malifaux can do anymore, let alone Fated characters, ever since Governor-General Kitchener became the Burning Man.

Invested characters have Talents in Into the Steam that they can use to modify their bodies, and per the Core Rules, they can attach replace their limbs with pneumatic prosthetics, but they ignore any bonuses they would gain from the limb or any of its augments (for them, it's just a normal limb).

Nope. Think more "University of Transmortis."