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Sounds good! Let me know if you want editing eyes or anything!

Awesome, thanks!

This game is super cool - it feels like a great fit for Forged In The Dark and I love the way the card draws work - but I'm encountering some fiddly questions (when you can draw as many cards as you want because of controlled position, do you have to declare how many you are going to draw before you start? I assume yes but hate making assumptions) and errors (the text says Baker begins with one dot in Triage but that action doesn't exist, it's actually Direct.)

Are you still making updates? If so, do you want the full list? 

I really like this game, but the text seems to have a number of errors - usually game elements being referred to by the wrong name, presumably reflecting changes that have been made but not thoroughly implemented. 

Are there plans for an update? 

Wanted to add a comment here since I just cracked open my copy for a look for the first time in a while -- it seems like you've got some sort of weird issue with your PDF bookmarks; While there are correct bookmarks in the document, there are preceeded by a whole bunch of bookmarks with names like "_heading=h.pp6px1afcjnd" which clutter up the pane and are probably not intended?

Ah! Thanks for the reminder! I had been putting off adding more community copies while the Trans Rights West Virginia bundle was running, but now that that is over, I've added the backlog, so there should be a few around for you to grab!  

Good luck! Let me know if I can help.

I was able to open the PDF in Affinity publisher and edit it easily, but in so doing I lost the fonts. If you know what fonts they are, you might be able to do something similar but more effective.

Can anyone verify for me if the issue with the play materials that exists in the DTRPG edition of this game is a problem here too?

Specifically, in the reference materials (but not in the actual book) Comfort and Support says:

When you assist a fellow PC, roll.

On a hit you lift them up: they may choose to give you a Bond with them or clear a marked Element.

On a 7-9 you may also clear an Element yourself, ask them a question they must answer, give them a Bond with you, or gain +1 Influence (Courtly).

In a scene, you may use this move to aid someone before or after a roll. Spend a Bond you created with them to give them a +1 to their roll.

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Fiddly nitpicks:

• You have a typo. "Someone Else›s Coat"
• heroic should have the ‡ traumatized mark
• The "stories were once told..." section seems to appear twice, once on page 4, and once on page 5.  They seem to be the same.

Works for me at this time.

Even something simple would be great. :)

I'm still learning to try to do real layout too. If I ever get done with all my own projects, I'd be happy to help out. x.x

I really like what you've done here.  Hopefully at some point you'll be able to create some at-the-table reference materials?

This is an excellent, concise and Aspect-focused implementation of Fate. I've always been a fan of aspects and I'm glad to see a version of the game that really puts their importance front and center.

I will probably be using this the next time I bring Fate to the table.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with this. I definitely found the initial version kinda rough, but I'm still hunting for a really good shonen game, so I'll be keeping an eye on this. :)

No problem. Let me know if you have any questions! Thanks for your interest! 

Did you manage to grab one? There's one left, but I can add more if there are zero when you come looking.

No problem! There should be more community copies now.  Thank you for your interest!

You should have gotten an email with a code in it, but this one should work for anyone who has the base game:

https://airkseablade.itch.io/vxxqy9wdbh

Two player seems to work with the method you describe, but not four player (I tried both https://itch.io/physical-games/four-player  andhttps://itch.io/physical-games/four-players) ? This doesn't feel like it's working. =/

Is there any reason this seems to be unavailable for Physical games? They also have player counts, and it would be useful to be able to search them. 

In fact, it'd really be kinda handy to have this not tied to the Multiplayer/Local multplayer tags at all, and just available all the time?

Hey; Here we are 45 days later, and this appears to be broken. 

Is there any additional information I can provide that would help?

Yeah, for printing, the four booklets seems like a cool format, but for digital use, having a unified file would be great! Thanks!

I appreciate the vibe of the 4 different "books" but it'd be a lot more convenient to have a single PDF to reference/search that just smooshed all four together into a single volume.

There's an ePub version available now. Give it a look and let me know if there's anything amiss.

Also, if it's not too much trouble, I'd really appreciate a positive rating on either this scenario or Shepherds, if you think they're deserving.  It really helps with people finding them.

Thanks again for your feedback.

That's really heartening! I'm hopeful that since the layout in Fregena is less complex, that it should be less of a headache than the game rules was. 

Watch this space for updates in the new year. (I'd get to it sooner, but I am away from the PC with all the software...) 

Glad to hear that! To be honest, part of why there isn't an epub of this yet is that I wasn't sure if anyone was using them, but this conversation is providing the incentive to put in the work. 

Currently I need to finalize the dungeons supplement for Shepherds - basically just with some example dungeons - and then I am working on another scenario, but it has turned out to be complex and difficult, so it hasn't been going ahead very fast. 

Outside of that, I do a little bit of editing on other folks games, but I don't have any other "creative" projects beyond the "what if" stage. 

Thanks for your interest! I really should have done an epub of Fregena ages ago, so I will make it a priority in the new year, since that's when I get back to my PC. 

Come to that, I should probably do the same for the Advanced Prisms, and the dungeons supplement once it's done... 

Thanks! Responding momentarily.

I am attempting to send an Email to everyone at a specific reward tier on my project. I go to Interact -> Email, and create a new mail. I fill in all the fields and select the reward tier from the list. When I select it, it shows that there are 138 people in that tier. But when I click "send" on the email, I get an error that says "no recipients".  Nothing I can do seems to make any difference.  I can send a preview mail to myself no problem.

Also note that this is DIFFERENT from the error you get if you leave the recipients field entirely blank -- that one says "recipients must be a string".

I email support about this nearly a month ago, but have heard nothing about it except for the single automated reply I got when I initially reached out.

Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

Astonishingly, I was almost right about the pronunciation.

Also, yes, amazing cat cameo!

I hope it's valuable. Please let me know if there's anything you can think of that you'd like more guidance on or which you think is missing.

This issue should be fixed in the latest version, which is now available. :)

I've updated the main rules doc with minor notes to clarify on your points.   The rules for damaged Prisms now say: "When this happens, you lose the +1 Attribute bonus and any other benefits the Prism provides, but can still use Arthic Moves as normal."

And the "Using Work Together" section notes "However, for characters with zero or negative Trust, only the third option is viable – since the first two give no bonus. This means Working

Together is powerful but expensive until the characters can forge stronger bonds."

Thank you for your feedback!

Good idea on both counts! I admit I didn't entirely think through the effects of damage on some of the more complicated Prisms.  I think it's probably cleanest to say "Damaged Prisms continue to give their +1 stat, but offer no additional benefits" but I will definitely want to make an update clarifying that.

Thanks for your feedback!

Characters with zero/negative trust are actually the reason the third option exists, since as you've noticed, the other two don't really work.  It does mean that there will probably be fewer instances of low-trust people helping each other, but the relative power of the 3rd option helps compensate.

If you find it doesn't work out that way, you can certainly try things out with a minimum bonus of +1, though this means there's not really any difference between Trust 0 and Trust +1.

I also briefly considered changing Trust to go from 0 to 4 instead (and move the 'negative trust' penalty to 0) but overall things seemed to work well as-is. The place it feels like it would sting the most is in shorter games, and for those it's probably a good idea to use the reduced cost to increase Trust from page 60.

All that said, the Trust/aid cycle isn't a tightly balanced equation where everything falls apart if it doesn't work 'exactly so' so if you'd like to give lower trust characters more options, by all means, go for it.

Not really. As the number of bundles grows, I would need to track which bundles I have purchased things in, and even then the tool won't show me anything I've bought outside of a bundle.

Why is it so difficult for me to query my library for "Solo RPG" or whatever? I can already search the entire physical games section for that, even just a checkbox for "In my Library" in the regular search feature would suffice for my purposes.

At the moment, there doesn't seem to be a way to search only the titles that I own, either by keyword or by tag.  It would be extremely helpful, in these days of big bundles, to be able to perform a 'My Library" search in a similar to way to standard searches.

Even so, thank you for your interest! Someday I dream of an actual play report. ;)

Okay, as it turns out, this hit the table a lot faster than expected.

We played a two player, one GM game, with no grid map.  We used the shortest Fly, You Fools! Track, because we only had a couple of hours, but we finished in good time.

Generally speaking, it was a zany good time, though I had a little bit of trouble making some of the humor of the text translate to play.  Which is not to say that play wasn't humorous, just that the text for some options is so funny, I wish I had a clever way to use it at the table.

Also, a lot of the non-special rooms (many thanks for the bonus special rooms doc) tended to end up feeling a bit like "Either get into a fight or say 'No no, we are definitely NOT the dwarves from the dungeon'."  Part of this is probably on me, because I didn't offer many situations where the dwarves had a chance to observe the situation before acting.

One of my players commented that the game kinda reminded him of Space Train Space Heist in that it involved moving through a selection of random-ish rooms full of zany stuff, and that seems both accurate and pretty high praise. 

Thumbs up!

Edit: Oh, and one other comment -- when I printed out the character sheets and party sheet they came out... small? Like occupying only the center 1/3rd of the page or so? This was okay for the character sheets, really (though kindof a waste of paper) but kinda tiresome for the party sheet which would've benefited from larger dice boxes.  I've noticed that I can fix this is I use Adobe to resize to fit when printing, but I don't usually use Adobe for my PDFs, so I didn't realize this was an option until later.