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Thanks so much for giving it a read.

I can't speak for all GMs, but as I've played it:

Faction and NPC Sentences begin entirely secret, and are only revealed on use.

Moon Sentences can begin secret or public or some mix thereof, depending on PCs and their relation to the given Moon. If they're from the Moon in question, or have spent a lot of time there, they probably know the big ones. But a Moon might have some secrets (like the one about Daniley's Unyielding Engine) which they discover during play. Plus, Moons can have Sentences added on the fly by Players by spending their Tokens. 

In the Podcast play example, the public Sentences reflected that the character in question had been to those places before, encountered those Factions and NPCs, etc. Also, once a Sentence is public, it is marked in public and only through play--so players should always have the ability to know if a Sentence has been Primed and could potentially be Realized the next time they come up against it.

And important note: Illuminating failure doesn't require opposition, though it can include that, if you'd like. It requires only uncertainty. (That's also true for requesting a Means from a player, you don't need to have specific opposition, you can just say 'Hey, that sounds like something that might be uncertain. Do you have a Means to point to that would make it doable for you?')

Hope that helps!

Oh this is absolutely true. This is what I get for trying to handle some of the edits from the passenger seat of a car. Tyler and I will adjust for clarity soon!

Not an official one at this point. Running and moderating a server well is a lot of work, and not one that I currently have the bandwidth for, especially since making TTRPGs is not my full time job. 

Yes, absolutely, in two major ways.

First, tonally, saying the word 'always' really has an impact in play. The initial draft of this game allowed for other phrasings, and it didn't really hit. 'I always do X' really shifts the sense of deploying a Sentence.

Second, mechanically, Class Sentences aren't only deployed in Conflicts, they're also used when facing uncertainty, which is only possible because of "always." If the Runner didn't always "find a way through or around," and they came to a locked door, how would we know that they could get past it? Well, in another game, where they had something like a skill like "lockpicking" or an aspect like "knows how to find a way through or around" we might ask "well, how well  do they know that?" and to find out we'd maybe roll some dice. Here, we don't have to: They always find a way through or around. 

The only thing powerful enough to stop that "always"--in the Wordwrights' vision of Realis--is another Sentence.

A GMing and/or Play Guidance section(s) is high on the list of new material for the full release!

Thanks for the catch! Page 37 is correct. We'll fix this ASAP. The rule for Bonds used to be that they didn't Realize, they were only ever rewritten as new +0 bonds. Once I changed that, I also returned them to being marked only on failures, like regular Sentences. Hope that makes sense!

A GMing guide is on my list for the full release for sure!  A lot of play testers have been able to get campaigns up and going with what’s here, so I’m confident it does work.

One important note: the PCs should NOT be the only ones doing things, or be the primary Actors. This game doesn’t work only on “what do you do,” it requires “Someone is trying to use [sentence X] with [Y intent], can anyone counter that?”

I’m traveling today, but sounds like a typo or holdover from when something else happened in that play example. I’ll take a look once I’m at a computer!! Thank you~

edit: okay, fixed!!

Really rad work capturing the "cinematic" pace of cyberpunk action-hacking.

This is super neat Ansh! The thing I think it's missing the most right now is a way to quickly start playing again, so that I could become better at understanding the mechanics and play without needing to watch the intro/credits. Really excited to see this develop.