Scott Beattie

Thanks, it's great to have feedback. Time is a real killer, I remember David Lynch talking about how long it took to make Eraserhead with everyone's real life commitments and joked that it would be faster to do it as stop motion animation. I feel that way about my campaign, especially with other systems vying for attention.

Magic probably needs a primer too as it works very differently from other games, but is not always overt about stating those differences, nor about suggesting which talents are really really useful.

Interesting - would create a very different flavoured game. Much more lethal. Have you looked at the 'Trail of Cthulhu' system as well?

How about these ideas to kick it off... Academic Dissertation: One topic of specialisation that you always get a positive flip in, on the downside you can't ever shut up about it Perfomer For my public: The performer has a fan base and once per session that can call upon them for a vital clue, concealment from guild patrols etc (think Mel from Flight of the Conchords) Drudge You do it for her: There is something that makes the toil worthwhile - maybe a baby daughter, an unrequited love for a guardsman or just sweet sweet liquor. The drudge gets a bonus to resist hardship, torture, exhaustion where the special objective benefits from the suffering Gunslinger Squint: challenge to size up the room, determine relative strengths and experience, see who is armed Dabbler Air of the Rum and Uncanny: The dabbler may not actually be able to do magic yet, but they can appear mysterious, make seemingly wise pronouncements and scare off weak willed bullies.

I'm sure we could figure out some house rules on the forums, crowd source ideas for level 0 abilities...

Hi all, I'd like to share this adventure with you fine folks. The Leaves of Alithia This is the story of a very bad book. The Gaunt Bible, a lost grimoire of legendary First Breach arch villain Professor Mondragone has re-awoken and is set upon making trouble, more than a century after its author’s equivocal death. https://docs.google.com/document/d/14E2wpoc9W0uOQMgSltf-eiNlcgf8Q9-hDsfHQ7RxBdU/edit?usp=sharing

I had a look at Chronicles 14 and there wasn't a guide there and Recruitment Drive just has the scenario (at least in my version). It might be a good community project to work on, or at least develop some specs for what a guide would need to have in it. Top of my list is "how TTB magic is different to other other games you might have played" - which seems to create a lot of traffic on the forums.

I wonder if there isn't a space for a quickstart guide, something like the Star Wars roleplaying games have or like the Malifaux one? One of the biggest barriers I've found to introducing players is the need for a short snappy guide to using skills, combat and magic, and a reference guide so they don't have to keep asking questions. All the character generation stuff, equipment lists, spell lists are fine where they are, but something short, maybe 20 pages or so, would be a great help. The rules are quite straightforward once you grasp them but the explanations in the Fated book are ... obtuse and very very wordy. If this was an update-able pdf it could also be a spot for an index of skills, pursuits, etc as more books come out.

The destiny concept was the real clincher for me. You could probably use it with other systems if you wanted to but it gives the game a very distinctive flavour.

Although you do really need to know the Malifaux setting to make the most of it.

I'm not arguing the Guild are religious, just that the terminology and iconography that they use is one of the few traces of religious imagery in the rulebooks. As powerful as the Guild is, I doubt that religion or churches are just going to vanish from the world. If they have, there is going to be an interesting story in that.

The corporate version of the humanist dream of the enlightenment gone sour.

Yes, more 'criminal' than 'heretic'. And to be fair to the fascists, with Soulstones being a thing, there are going to be a few despicable sorcerers around.

Excellent. I guess you could always get some from the Gremlins - if you were really stupid and tired of living

Except that magic was real, albeit something that was draining out of the world (except the Three Kingdoms). I've mentioned Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell before, I think it is a good source of inspiration.