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+ | ===Term 2 Week 9=== |
| + | * White Tag has been added to indicate the character is a Keeper, with the same meaning as White Robe. |
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| − | * PCs can start Brushed With Element if they like. |
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| − | * Mortal wounds no longer become non-mortal at the end of a linear. |
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| − | * Resisting a COMPEL no longer allows you to freely resist EPIC COMPELs from the same source for the rest of the encounter. |
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| − | * Gather Rumours as a default downtime action removed. This means all rumours are written to order, hopefully guaranteeing quality, and cutting down on admin before time in. |
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| − | * Gather Rumours allowed in missed weeks' downtimes as well as Gather Ducatto, to help people with sporadic attendance keep engaged. |
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| − | * Exotic Income merged with Personal Income. You may be offered an exotic income, but if one is not available, or you decline it, you'll get money. This is to cut down on admin before time in. |
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| − | * Dissection moved to general skills to avoid science-side controlling all the resources. Dissectors can hack up non-humans for resources, but it takes dissector+surgeon to autopsy non-humans to learn things. |
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| − | * Analyse Power changed to add extra Sense Magic uses instead of extra information from it, and renamed to Insightful Observer. |
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| − | * Merged Intuition into Investigation, and made Investigation and Attune more clearly distinct by separating what targets they work on, rather than a nebulous "mundane" vs "elemental" information split. |
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| − | * Attune now has base magnitude 0 to match Investigation. |
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| − | * Investigators can now consume alchemicals to buff their result to match Attune. |
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| − | * Smuggling made slightly better and merged with Appraise and Spot and named Tricks of the Trade. |
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| − | * Inspire renamed to Hearts and Minds and emotion effects cut down to a set designed to promote action, rather than being sad in a corner. Clarified that Hearts and Minds works on animals. |
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| − | * Buffed Preparation to prepare two skills. |
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| − | * Iron Will buffed to resist emotion effects infinitely to match Hearts and Minds. |
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| − | * Soft limit on uses per day added to Contacts, since it can be a ref-intensive skill. |
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| − | * Leadership renamed to Motivate, and its main ability buffed from once-per-day to once-per-day-per-target to match rituals. |
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| − | * Several rituals made cheaper. |
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| − | * Empower nerfed for rogues. Added +1 Hit option to Empower so rogues with Quick Wits can still benefit from the ritual. |
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| − | * Added ability to converse with plants and animals to Attune. |
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| − | * Made it so repelling someone away from a ritual area doesn't stop them contributing to the ritual, and then retired the Focused Thaumaturge skill. |
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| − | * Made Graft depend on Surgery again. |
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| − | * Reanimated workers removed from Reanimate skill (and setting). |
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+ | ===Term 2 Week 6=== |
| + | * Reagents freely available with Ducatto now cost 1 Ducatto if bought before interactives and linears. |
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| − | * Starting skills increased to 7. |
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| − | * REPEL duration reduced from 5s to 3s. |
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| − | * WEAKEN duration increased from 5s to 10s. |
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| − | * Merged Ambidex, Buckler and Two-handed in to one Melee Training skill to give fighters more flexibility and make Shield+Polearm 1 skill cheaper. |
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| − | * Restricted thrown weapons to a carry limit, for balance and to limit the advantage OC expense can have for a thrown-using character. |
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| − | * Invoker: Readded Chain Shock because invokers were light on toys. |
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| − | * Invoker: Restorative nerfed from CURE 5 to CURE 4. |
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| − | * Invokers benefit from armour slightly less than other combat schools to make self-healing armoured invokers less tanky. |
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| − | * Rogue: Thrown Training no longer free. |
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| − | * Rogue: Dirty Trick ranged STUN changed to thrown STUN and renamed to Weapon Precision. |
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| − | * Rogue: Survival removed; similar functionality still available through other means. |
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| − | * Rogue: Combat Awareness buffed from "use wits to dodge" to "once per encounter dodge, and use wits to recharge it". This is to make it so rogues can actually use their abilities against invokers and ranged rogues rather than the best tactic being to hold them back to keep dodge available. Split in to 2 skills (Danger Sense and Awareness) to compensate for the buff (it was already the strongest defensive skill pre-buff). |
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| − | * Rogue: Alchemical Efficiency moved to general skills because rogues now had too many toys. |
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| − | * Warrior: Resolve instant heal reduced from CURE 5 to CURE 3. |
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| − | * Warrior: Implacable buffed to mitigate CRUSH to TRIPLE instead of TRIPLE STUN. |
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+ | ===Term 2 Week 4=== |
| + | * Any reagents now freely available for Ducatto can be taken as your default downtime gather, both for unsubmitted downtimes and missed weeks. |
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| − | * Generalised MINOR and MAJOR modifiers in to a single EPIC modifier that can apply to anything. |
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| − | * Rogue: Added Alchemical Efficiency to buff "healer" rogue. |
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| + | ===Term 2 Week 1=== |
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| − | * Invoker: Field Medic removed; still available under Surgery. |
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| + | * Sense Magic is now unlimited uses for everyone. Bear in mind using Sense Magic on a person is mildly uncomfortable, so you might get complaints if you do it to everyone. |
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| − | * Influence campaigns moved from Connections to Negotiator, which were then renamed to Contacts and Smooth Talker respectively. |
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| + | * Insightful Observer can now identify the intended effect even if you don't have the skill being used. |
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| + | * Insightful Observer can now be used to once per day ask COMPEL: Tell me, was that the truth? |
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| + | ===Pre-Term 2=== |
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| + | * Wounds will now say on the card if they can only be treated in an interactive. If it doesn't it can be fully treated in the field. |
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| + | * Preparation's skills can now be activated separately. |
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| + | * Reanimation now gives CURE 1 while incapacitated once per day instead of temp HP. |
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| + | * Clarified that tricks, techniques and focus powers can be untrained, so you can retrain the one you chose when you took Combat Training without unlearning your whole combat school. |
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| + | * Clarified that you can unlearn any two rituals when unlearning Learn Ritual, they don't need to be two you learned at the same time. |
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| + | * Clarified that skills that grant calls can't be combined with each other or other abilities that grant calls, such as weapon oils and pacts. |
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| + | ===Term 1 Week 4=== |
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| + | * [[STUN]] changed to allow moving at a walking pace rather than immobility. |
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| + | * Lowered several ritual costs, particularly for rituals that use a wound slot, and sometimes added a discount when the thaumaturgist casts on themself. |
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| + | ===Term 1 Week 2=== |
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| + | * Non-contact players are now identified by the lovely flourescent yellow bands we were gifted last week. |
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| + | * Clarify that Backstab can only be done with <24" '''melee''' weapons. |
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| + | ===Term 1 Week 1=== |
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| + | * Learn Ritual now learns 50% more rituals - every second time you take the skill you learn 2 formulaic rituals instead of one. |
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| + | * Downtime deadline changed to Monday afternoon, since we're clearly not going to have a refmeet between midnight and then... |
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| + | See [[Rule Changes/Pre-Campaign|here]] for the changes between the pitch document and the final rules. |
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Latest revision as of 16:55, 12 March 2020
Term 2 Week 9
- White Tag has been added to indicate the character is a Keeper, with the same meaning as White Robe.
Term 2 Week 6
- Reagents freely available with Ducatto now cost 1 Ducatto if bought before interactives and linears.
Term 2 Week 4
- Any reagents now freely available for Ducatto can be taken as your default downtime gather, both for unsubmitted downtimes and missed weeks.
Term 2 Week 1
- Sense Magic is now unlimited uses for everyone. Bear in mind using Sense Magic on a person is mildly uncomfortable, so you might get complaints if you do it to everyone.
- Insightful Observer can now identify the intended effect even if you don't have the skill being used.
- Insightful Observer can now be used to once per day ask COMPEL: Tell me, was that the truth?
Pre-Term 2
- Wounds will now say on the card if they can only be treated in an interactive. If it doesn't it can be fully treated in the field.
- Preparation's skills can now be activated separately.
- Reanimation now gives CURE 1 while incapacitated once per day instead of temp HP.
- Clarified that tricks, techniques and focus powers can be untrained, so you can retrain the one you chose when you took Combat Training without unlearning your whole combat school.
- Clarified that you can unlearn any two rituals when unlearning Learn Ritual, they don't need to be two you learned at the same time.
- Clarified that skills that grant calls can't be combined with each other or other abilities that grant calls, such as weapon oils and pacts.
Term 1 Week 4
- STUN changed to allow moving at a walking pace rather than immobility.
- Learn Ritual changed to grant 2 rituals each time the skill is taken.
- Lowered several ritual costs, particularly for rituals that use a wound slot, and sometimes added a discount when the thaumaturgist casts on themself.
Term 1 Week 2
- Non-contact players are now identified by the lovely flourescent yellow bands we were gifted last week.
- Clarify that Backstab can only be done with <24" melee weapons.
Term 1 Week 1
- Learn Ritual now learns 50% more rituals - every second time you take the skill you learn 2 formulaic rituals instead of one.
- Downtime deadline changed to Monday afternoon, since we're clearly not going to have a refmeet between midnight and then...
Pre-campaign
See here for the changes between the pitch document and the final rules.