Okay, played SotC last night.  And I had three areas that we couldn't lay our hands on the rules quickly.  Now.  I love this game.  So don't think I'm poo-pooing this wonderful creation.  I'm talking about doin' the tighten up.

1)  Companions are not well explained.  Pg. 77 sez that a companion gains a number of advances to begin with (but not how many).  Sorry.  I just got it.  Strike this critique.  On page 130, I finally tracked down right now, as I'm writing this, that it is three Advances. But in play, I missed that little nugget several times.  Which means I wrote up Princess Alura wrong.  Cool.  I can make her a bit better. 

2.)  This almost came up last night.  But Julie decided to sit this game out and concentrate on school work.  Julie doesn't have a SotC character yet.  And if she had played, we've got a couple of characters, created all at the same time, with the wonderful structure of guest starring in each other novels, etc.  What happens when you want to integrate a new Player?  Should we do the guest star novel writing with the new character... or should they just come in....?  I think that the Century Club is a real easy IN-GAME structure to introduce a new character.... but I love the novel writing section of character generation.  And maybe this is in the rules, but I can't seem to access it.

3)  Last night, we wanted to have one player make a support roll in order to help another player.  This is a common feature in most games now.  Lending dice from BW.  Fan Mail from PTA.  While we eventually cottoned on to I made a roll to create a Taggable "environmental" Aspect, that Jeff tagged for Free (got that +2).... it took us a bit to track that down in the rules.  I think if that was an actual section  and a bit stronger... for the write up speaks of the SAME PC using two skills, not 2 PCs using two different (or similar skills) to work in conjunction.

Storn wrote:
1)  Companions are not well explained.  Pg. 77 sez that a companion gains a number of advances to begin with (but not how many).  Sorry.  I just got it.  Strike this critique.  On page 130, I finally tracked down right now, as I'm writing this, that it is three Advances. But in play, I missed that little nugget several times.  Which means I wrote up Princess Alura wrong.  Cool.  I can make her a bit better. 

2.)  This almost came up last night.  But Julie decided to sit this game out and concentrate on school work.  Julie doesn't have a SotC character yet.  And if she had played, we've got a couple of characters, created all at the same time, with the wonderful structure of guest starring in each other novels, etc.  What happens when you want to integrate a new Player?  Should we do the guest star novel writing with the new character... or should they just come in....?  I think that the Century Club is a real easy IN-GAME structure to introduce a new character.... but I love the novel writing section of character generation.  And maybe this is in the rules, but I can't seem to access it.

3)  Last night, we wanted to have one player make a support roll in order to help another player.  This is a common feature in most games now.  Lending dice from BW.  Fan Mail from PTA.  While we eventually cottoned on to I made a roll to create a Taggable "environmental" Aspect, that Jeff tagged for Free (got that +2).... it took us a bit to track that down in the rules.  I think if that was an actual section  and a bit stronger... for the write up speaks of the SAME PC using two skills, not 2 PCs using two different (or similar skills) to work in conjunction.

Yep, that's written up in the book and... I *thought* it was indexed enough to make that findable.

It's spelled out pretty clearly in the 'Creation on the Fly' stuff in the character creation chapter, towards the back.  It in fact still preserves the novel-writing part, but lets you figure out most of the rest of the stuff in play.

But doing the temporary aspect handoff?  Yeah, that's totally the idea.

Excellent.  Thanks for pointing out the places for improvement, man!

A good critique is a love letter saying "I care.".  <g>

....while that is pretty tongue in cheek, I think it holds a kernal of truth.  Certainly something I learned to accept and give in art school has been useful in all paths of life (so far).

Storn wrote:
3) Last night, we wanted to have one player make a support roll in order to help another player. This is a common feature in most games now. Lending dice from BW. Fan Mail from PTA. While we eventually cottoned on to I made a roll to create a Taggable "environmental" Aspect, that Jeff tagged for Free (got that +2).... it took us a bit to track that down in the rules. I think if that was an actual section and a bit stronger... for the write up speaks of the SAME PC using two skills, not 2 PCs using two different (or similar skills) to work in conjunction.