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[Florin]

Redlines are after the developer receives a draft from the writers, goes through and marks up what needs to be changed, and then sends it back to the writers.

Development is after the drafts are done, and the developer goes through and makes tweaks to harmonize tone, style, and information.

As for a timeline, it varies wildly by product. I don't think there's a good way to say, "Well, this is a Night Horrors book. So those usually take about 18 months from first draft announcement to PoD."

[Florin]

Before PoD, they'll have to send the files off to the traditional printer, get a test copy back, go through that and see if anything needs correcting, go through that cycle until the book is correct, have it traditionally printed, get it shipped to their distribution partner, have it shipped to backers from there, THEN they'll worry about PoD.

[Florin]

We were trapped in another mage's paradox realm with only our comic code approved underwear, and we only had access to the foci for our primary spheres. I was an Etherite, so I could use Matter. However, everything around us was Spirit. Except for our underwear. That was still real matter. So, I used Matter to transform the party's underwear into my Prime focus (a helmet with lots of wires and doo-dads on it,) which I could then use to generate foci for the rest of the group with Matter and Prime.

So, I gave the party their magick back by wearing their underwear on my head.

[Florin]

I've only run one session of DR:E, but I've run quite a few sessions of TC:Aeon, which also uses the Storypath system, and my players have never had trouble generating Momentum. In fact, they have hit the Momentum pool cap a few times. On paper it might look hard to gain Momentum, but rolls fail often enough (even with 6+ dice,) and once combat starts you can generate Momentum every round with a Bruised Injury Condition.

Also, there is a feedback mechanism in the Momentum pool. The group gets +1 xp for spending half the pool in a scene. So, if the pool is small, they can spend only...

[Florin]

According to the books, a Hero can have a number of active knacks equal to their total of Calling dots. In Origin, under Tweaks, it says you can swap out an active knack for an inactive knack in between sessions. So, if you have 5 dots of Callings and 7 knacks, you can only have 5 active at a time, and in between sessions, you can swap out one active one for one of the two extra knacks you have.

Charging a point of Legend to swap knacks means an Origin character could never swap knacks.

[Florin]

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So, it's effective over their entire Radius and says nothing about targeting specific attacks....

[Florin]

Cool. I'll be interested to read it since I'm sure I have a player who will notice this power and take it at some point....

[Florin]

In a psychics-only game with a theme of Unity, I can understand why you'd put up hard barriers between the aptitudes. It lets everyone feel distinct and encourages teaming up to solve problems like this. However, in a mixed-splat game, I would probably prefer using psiads....