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it does yeah, pre-ordering should trigger an email to go out with a copy of the draft manuscript shortly thereafter, as per discord discussion.

Yeah, although it may change a lot in the final version, but we have the whole chapter on them from the draft manuscript that comes with pre-order/pledge! To make a long story short, they don't have damnations and they have some 'hard-coded' torments that aren't referred to as torments...

Another thing is that honestly from experience, the filtering has the secondary benefit that players have to be ok with filtering to make it into the group. You're less likely to end up with types who are perpetually insisting you have to appease strong personalities because anything else isn't...

My experience with this running at the library is that it's generally fine in the end but that they will give you a noticeable look like you're trying to scam them. There's also a "why aren't we just sticking with the name brand" conversation that's harder to have because they don't have the...

It depends a bit, I get big fae vibes from the Keepers of the Vine (who are very forest witch coded) and from the Prenderghasts (which are in the Player's Guide, they feel very 'loyal and mysterious fey butler who serves you for his own purposes' to me) with the outcasts themselves getting it...

Hell yeah! The book does have a lot of that lore/storytelling thing going on in it, but it's a lot more streamlined than the COFD offerings in terms of organization. But I do recommend the table of contents for better navigation. Venators as they appear in the current manuscript are...

Venator is just Latin for Hunter, so that one is fairly tame ; )

I think its also that while the base of the game is still oriented toward the city level, there's less emphasis on the 'everything you care about is this city' of VTM/VTR so you don't need the prince to be the whole world.

Its interesting because the book plays up the existence and threat posed by older members of every lineage/family, but also manages to put them at a remove. Like the Sphinx noting that Tybalts will consume young sphinxes to renew their lifespan, and how everyone hates them for it, or the vampire...

Yeah, honestly, the fact that it integrated 'cross-splat' play straight into the base of the game, but is still set up in such a way you could do a game heavily focused on a specific creature type really squares the circle on a long term conflict in WOD spaces, its very easy to do the kinds of...

Yeah with momentum the things that seem to address that is the per session reset (because you get a LOT of momentum, so if anythingbplayers will be mutually happy it didnt go to waste) and the once per roll usage of critical, there might be greedier rolls off some spells but spreading momentum...

You'll be delighted to know that "approaches" don't exist in SPU, I just looked for anything like what you're describing and couldn't find it. Momentum as a group resource I personally enjoy but i see how some groups wouldn't like it. I like that anyone can bank extra hits into it, or draw on...

We could talk about those parts if you like, in both cases. Sometimes frameshifting and such help-- I've especially seen that with the investigation system (not that you mentioned it.)

The Curseborne system for Foundry is interesting in that it was pretty barebones during a curseborne session, we were using it as a dice roller pretty much-- right now its more like a basic SPU rolling infrastructure than it is a Curseborne one (unless we're talking about a diff one, or it...

Its a very similar system, and the reason i know that is because the conversion guide from Storypath is about 5 pages long. Its a lot of fairly small adjustments-- 10s are two successes, difficulties limited to 5, complications to 3, etc.