In a further attempt to reduce this game concept to its essentials, I've done away with everything except for:

• innate and perceived traits (3 each)
• clocks (acceptance, assimilation and suspicion
• basic moves (one for each clock)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EACrsBTq96JKBoR9PAe2y_IgsuJvgi3QIgvG9vvMr1M/edit

However, as it is, the game is a race to midnight which doesn't have the most natural feel to it. It's missing post-midnight moves, which is where I'm going to focus next.

Hi cromlyngames,

Thanks for taking a look!

I don't know how I missed the starting stat assignments, but I fixed that and the document at the link should now show "Assigned these numbers at will: 0, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 1" on the character sheet.

I see what you mean about the Firebrand. Here's what I had intended with that: For anyone else, advancing Suspicion normally means you failed your roll, which means you failed at trying to do something. The Firebrand can get around that, though, and automatically succeed at something, as long as it fits the narrative trigger and they're willing to take the Suspicion hit. They succeed where others fail. Does that make sense, and if so, does it just need to be made clearer? Or if not, what could be a better balance?

Also, the Pragmatist and Firebrand roles are meant to give players the ability to do smaller versions of the Appease and Subvert moves, so I wonder if you have similar feelings about those.

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