gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Jan 3, 2018

• Rounds last for three seconds or up to six.
  
• Don't get set on fire or electrocuted.
  
• Roll your Fortitude vs. the potency of drugs to see how they affect you. The effects of drug potency is cumulative; reduce the potency by the amount you're reducing the dose or increase by how many doses you're taking.
  
• Virility of a drug is just how many Fortitude/Resolve successes across many rolls it takes to suppress one of the effects of a drug for a single round (except taking damage).
  
• Infectiousness of an illness is how many Fort successes you need to avoid infection.
  
• Speed of a disease is how often one needs to make a Fort roll to resist Potency. Lifespan is how many times one will make rolls to resist, max, before you're fully cured.
  
• Disease damage is dealt either as a flat amount of Health Pips lost per failed roll until death or you lose X Pips where X=the amount of Potency not covered by success in a Fort roll.
  
• No disease ever says which kind of those damages it deals.
  
• Don't drown or fall from heights.

• Blunt damage is bruise damage and heals up to 2/3rds of all of your bruise damage at the rate of 1 Pip per half hour. The other 1/3rd is beholden to normal healing rules. Bruise damage that exceeds your health knocks you out.
  
• Anything worse requires long-term healing where you take it easy and heal 1 Pip per day. Or you can go to a hospital heal 3-6 Pips every 2 days...at the cost of having to roll increasingly harder Resolve rolls to basically not catch Victorian MRSA or any other diseases that might be in the ward.
  
• Poison and disease counts as bruise damage if you go to the doctor.

• Add an automatic success for a roll per point spent up to three points...and these successes can be eaten up by penalty dice from black dice.
  
• Reduce damage from an attack...to a minimum of 1 point, you're not allowed to fully negate an attack, it still hit you, shut up.
  
• Burn points to stay awake when you should be KO'd instead of making Resolve+Fort rolls.
  
• Act as extra rounds to stay alive by burning one point per round.
  
• Boost another player's rolls...by spending double the amount up to 6 points. Which doesn't exactly say if you're boosting them with +3 successes or +6, the phrasing is ambiguous.

• Reroll a single roll or effect! That's it!
  
• Avoid permanent injury!
  
• Cheat death! But you still took damage just barely shy of killing you!
  
• Grab the story's reins to twist it into narrative convenience for the players as long as A: the GM can veto it, B: if they can explain why they got a break and C: it can't change what already happened.

• Swinging close to Order means you get +1 success and one further success for each point under the Order cog you have to a max of +6 (1 free, 5 Order). Bonuses are generally given when one puts the system above the individual or you use tech. The downside of high Order affinity is that you have a black dice penalty equal to your affinity defending against magic or dealing with Demons.
  
• Swinging close to Entropy means you get +1 success and +3 dice to the pool per point under Entropy up to +15 extra dice. Bonuses are generally given when you put the individual above the system or use magic. The downside of high Entropy affinity is that you have a black dice penalty equal to your affinity when defending against technology (though explicitly not guns, they've been around long enough) or dealing with Archons.
  
• You can just negate the penalty of using tools of the other side as long as it's in service of your own ideology and you pay out a Fate Point. Your bonuses still apply for shelling out Fate Points. An Order-aligned priest can throw out a spell if they really need to, for example.
  
• The highest level of a Cog rating you can hit is 5 in either direction. Hit 6 and you become an angel or demon and poof out of existence into your proper realm and are taken out of the game.
  
• Raising or lowering a Cog rating just requires expenditure of 6 Scripting Dice which...wait hold on a second.

• All Dice spent to originally gain those ranks are lost. You have to move to the middle if you're going to go towards another end.
  
• People who adhere to Harmony get nothing, gently caress you. No bonuses, no penalties. Milquetoast fence-sitters...who happen to be the majority of all sapient life.
  
• The game says an interesting narrative idea would be someone who is seasoned and becoming less extreme in their ideology should draw the attention of a superior who wants to beat their rear end for defecting. Even though canonically the angels and demons don't give a gently caress because they're immortal beings who expect mortals to change their minds and dabble.
  
• There are no immutable mechanical rules and despite what either side believes/desires reality does not in fact work the way they want it to and it doesn't always fit into neat little boxes. Translation: I dunno, change poo poo if you want to.

• Reputation is broken down into Propriety and Notoriety or as I'll call them Paragon and Renegade.
  
• You start in zero in either unless you took stuff at chargen to change that.
  
• You should be stingy with Paragon and give at most 1 per adventure as long as their deeds are public and newsworthy.
  
• Renegade should be awarded whenever PCs act like PCs or go Pink Mohawk. It's easier to get, go figure, but it also has to be public and newsworthy.
  
• In a social setting you roll your Paragon vs. your Renegade. High Paragon success gives bonus dice to roll in that social situation. High Renegade success enforces black dice at a rate of 3 Black Dice per success over Paragon.
  
• Inevitably your PCs will become horrendously socially awkward and shunned for being PCs because of acquisition mechanics.
  
• You can commit Puffery or Slander to boost Paragon or Renegade by rolling Presence+Bull (or some other relevant skill) and every success over 6 adds a point to either Paragon or Renegade depending on what you're trying to do. It only lasts for one scene and you can do this against other people or fellow PCs. Either way you raise Paragon or Renegade and can negate any social penalties or enhance them.
  
• Attempting either and failing means nothing happens or people just don't believe you.
  
• Having Puffery found out automatically gives +1 Renegade to the puffed.
  
• Having Slander found out inflicts black dice on the spreader of the slander.
  
• There are further rules but you get the loving point.
  
• They were way too thorough figuring out how to accurately model these loving rules.
  
• Smash the empire.
  
• I'm getting some minute details wrong but I don't care.
  
• World War I can't come soon enough I swear to Christ.
  
• You can also try to avoid your reputation but the only way to lose Paragon and Renegade for good is to spend XP.

• Can't raise Attributes above subspecies maximum.
  
• Justify why you're raising a skill and use is generally a good justification. Also "don't spend all your points raising the same skills, a well-balanced adventurer has a better chance of staying alive and being useful" yeah wow you guys have never played anything remotely resembling...anything involving building dice pools that wasn't this game. I typed this sentence and somewhere out there a bunch of Shadowrun and WoD fans had a good chuckle without knowing why.
  
• Health and Quintessence are still capped by their parent stat but it's easier to raise them independent of raising certain attributes.
  
• Privileges and Assets should be earned through cash expenditure and roleplay as well as XP.
  
• A good rule of thumb for buying off a Complication is that it has to have come into play as many times as its rating (5 times for a Rank 5 thing, for example).
  
• You can also invest XP in lowering black die for psychic abilities you already know to a max of -2 black die. Exciting.
  
• You can know as many sigils as you want but their rating can only match up to your Resolve. Raising the dice modifiers of existing sigils is 2XP for 1 level raise.
  
• You can learn spells at chargen with a BP cost equal to your Quint. After chargen, you must: 1: find a source of a new spell, 2: spend weeks learning the spell equal to the BP cost and 3: make a roll to see if it really takes with a dice penalty that's negated by either the book you're using or your teacher's help. If you fail, you remove one black die per each attempt failed until you get it. Hooray.
  
• Marvels/tech are bought at chargen for a cost of their BP. After that they have to be built and might require the help of someone who knows magic to complete the work.
  
• Creating new magic and marvels involves A: whipping out either the two source books dedicated to tech or magic for the advanced rules or B: comparing the desired effect to existing spells or phenomena and then copying the BP cost of that spell. Creating new marvels runs the risk of extra XP depending on what you want to make.