Hello,

I like the revision a lot, and also the small shields in the corners of the skills in the revised character sheets are of help to the players. So I thought if it would be possible to have more rewards from the similarities between the different conflict situations.

If you would rename “Fend” to “Ward” and sort the skills again, “Ward” will be neighbor of “Will”, and “Heal” will be neighbor of “Entice”,

So, the recovering skills would have a place in the middle and the “shields” would all be at the edges of the skill matrix

regards
RdGkA

So, just off the top of my head:

D4: Leather Armour
D6: Leather Armour & Armed
D8: Chain armour
D10: Chain Armour & Sword
D12: Chain Armour, Sword & Shield

I realise it’s in some ways as messy as the free invoke, so I just put it out there as a thought.

And I have now updated the document with those clarifications.

Best,
Sam

I’ll add this to the document as well, thanks.

When I said “Additionally, only one such tool may be freely invoked per round” I meant to say “per defense roll.” So if you have a sword and a shield, you can invoke them both for free but not at the same time. Does that make sense?

I’ll update the document sometime later today and try to make that clearer. Thanks for the feedback, Sam.

The revised combat rules are a little unclear; the text seems to contradict the example.

The text says that you can invoke each parrying tool you have once in a round, and that you may invoke one such tool each round for free. i.e. if I take two attacks in a round, I can use my sword to block one, my shield to block the other; the first block is free, the second costs ardor.

On the other hand, the example has both the sword AND shield invoked for free, and doesn’t make it clear whether or not they could be invoked against subsequent attacks in the same round by paying ardor.

Which interpretation (if either) is correct?

Best,
Sam

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The revisions so far result in pretty significant changes to the text. The removal of the two-fold defense means some heavy changes to the Conflict chapter and several examples need to be rewritten, five skills need to be removed and one needs to be added. Changing the text isn’t by itself hard, but what it does to the pagination and the flow of the text in the layout is a different story. Problems may occur and I was thinking of having an editor do another pass to catch any kinks that might appear.

It’s all going to get done but I would prefer to only have to go through this process once. So, the revision document will have to serve for a while. In the meantime, keep talking about the game. It’s your blog posts, forum posts, reviews, tweets, and actual play reports that let me see what is working in the game and what might need to be added to the revisions.