Thank you for the excellent, detailed feedback!
Some answers...
- I might have to tweak the odds of leveling up aspects. My hope was that a rating of 2 was significant enough to feel somewhat skilled, and that since each player has unique skills they'd feel special. Would moving some of the ratings to 3 help? Did players spend XP for the +1 (which should help activate "growth")?
- Risk dice are a draw with respect to the odds of success. They just make the roll more "swingy" -- more chance of a rare success or a big failure, but otherwise same odds of success. (Edit: I was wrong about how this works in v0.8, but I made this true with v0.9!) The Danger Offering is definitely not great odds, but is meant as a something to try when you're in dire straits, similar to Blades in the Dark's Devil's Bargain. I suppose both of these could be removed to keep the game more focused. (Edit: Removed Danger Offering in v0.9)
- The wording is confusing. New Aspects that you gain will start at 1, but any unknown/un-owned Aspects are treated as a rating of zero (can only be rolled with d6 risk dice).
- I need a better way to describe this, but the idea is that defying danger has the same odds as other rolls, and to defy is completely really requires 2 successes. I might change all the language to: 2 success dice = full success, and 1 success dice = partial success.
- A supplement would be great. 😃
- For items that add effectiveness, I was thinking it would be handled purely narratively by giving out worse conditions ("mangled limb", "deep wound", etc.). If you hit someone with a sword they're more likely to be taken out of combat than if you just hit or pushed them, for instance. Adding an extra die to the roll has the disadvantage of making growth less likely.