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Hey guys! My tabletop group has been using the system for our Pokemon game and its been great! We'll definitely all be buying copies once it full releases!! We had a few questions that came up during play and were hoping you could help answer!

1) How are Reputations/stats defined and what does each one represent? Going through the book there's cases where they get case uses for Basic Moves (Confidence being used for Convince to appeal to passions etc) but no actual definition of what the stat alone represents.

2) Gear points are mentioned, but then never extrapolated on in the guide. Is this something intended for the full release that just accidentally got left in the Quickstart guide? Should we ignore it until the full-release?

Again, thank you for making such a fun system and can't wait for the book. Thanks guys!!

Five Points Games58 days ago (2 edits)

Really glad to hear you're enjoying the game!! Tell your players thank you as well!

1 - Reputation explanations were something cut from the free PDF but they will be in the full game. The PDF went much bigger than we were expecting, but I can assure you (because I just checked because I have a terrible memory) that the Reputations are explained in detail in the full product. It will, in fact, be the very first thing explained in Chapter 3: Character Creation.

2- Gear is explained in the PDF however. Gear Points (and how you can gain them) can be found under the Travel Mechanics, specifically the Move Gear Up (on page 26 of the PDF), and what Gear is, and how it's used, can be found on Page 24 and 25. The entire Gear List however is not in the PDF but will be in the final product. This was, once again, cut for brevity of the free version of the game.

We expect to have the PDF out to backers at the end of this month. Our artists have December and January off for holidays, family, and the like, but we'll be back swinging with art in the new year. We're aiming for a PDF release by Fall of next year to everyone on Itch and Drivethru, and a physical release to backers in Winter as per Kickstarter obligations. We will then be eying Print on Demand over at DrivethruRPG in 2026 if we can meet all of those goals.

And the likelihood is solid, given that we've been ahead of schedule for our goals this year.

Spade54 days ago(+1)

I'll let my fellow players know you said thank you!! Thank you for the response and tentative schedule, we'll keep an eye out for the book next year! In the meantime, will there be any updates to the quickstart guide for those of us that have to wait until next Fall to purchase the PDF? Since we didn't have the reputation explanations, we sorta just made up our own definitions based on context clues but I'm not confident we got them all that correct 🤣 Thanks again for the response, and you guys have a good holiday season!!!

Five Points Games54 days ago (1 edit)

The only update to the Quickstart will be some copyediting stuff, as far as we have planned. We'll talk over whatever else we feel like we might need to add but I can't make any promises, commitments, or otherwise on that end.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention - best way to get direct answers, and help with what's not in the Quickstart, is to join our Discord. Pretty active, especially for A Monster's Tail.

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