On Geneaology:

There is a big difference between "when you die with no sons, your brother inherits" and "when you die with no sons, your daughters son inherits."

Conniving uncles and ear-poison is what political drama is made from!

That said, I think illustrating the differences between the political systems (literally, with family trees) might be of use in the final text. I know I personally have trouble picturing the political landscape of these inheritance rules, just by reading them. I don't know how many gamers will sketch out their own example bloodlines just to teach themselves. An example tree with a little helping text would be nice.

Might work. This will all have to get shaken down with some play, of course. Without having seen DSO in play on its own yet, not to mention Oaths, I do admit I'm unsure how it would gel.

Oh absolutely, I get that. I guess my mind jumped to I don't know how busy your brothel can be with only 6 employees.

Also, I wonder about the wording on Draw Someone Out. When I draw them out, if I have marks, I get the armor. I'm not sure how often violence will immediately follow a DSO move, or how often someone could interrupt violence to DSO. Perhaps just "You take +1-armor ongoing against anyone whom youve marked DSO" and drop the specific need to roll the move to get the armor.

Unless that was totally how you meant it, in which case that's not how the text reads to me and perhaps some tweaking there is in order.

[Edit] Ignore all that stuff I said before.

Saturday I'm not available. But Friday maybe. We can sort this out over on G+.

When it says it's mine to make as MC, am I drawing out a landmass and a couple features ahead of time, and players point out where their holdings are on that skeleton of a map?

I ask because the sentence "the map is yours as MC to make" almost sounds like I should show up with an outline of a coastline/islands/whatever.

Wizard has a spell book -- there's nothing stopping the wizard from writing down as many spells as he wants, growing his spell list exponentially.

Cleric gets spells from thei god -- it follows they can only get spells approved by their god? Sounds like a side quest to me.

Divine guidance is possibly the most benign thing ever. You get ask a god for an answer or a thing, but only through petition, and its ultimately up to whether it makes sense for the god.

Ritual is the sexiest move ever that let's you change so much and get whatever you want more or less.

But primarily, balance doesn't really matter much.

Have you ever had a dog that sort of kind of knew a trick? I think it's like that.

If your companion is trained to do something, they'll do it cause the GM is a fan of your character, the end. The only thing getting in the way of that is a hard move (miss or golden opportunity), cause to say no otherwise is lame and your GM shouldn't do it if they're any good.

If your companion isn't trained to do something, well, that's a golden opportunity. I mean, obviously right? If my dog isn't trained to keep out intruders, I'd be in the shit if I left my dog to guard my house, ya know? In the same way, if your companion isn't trained in a thing, the GM is welcome to make a hard move.

What that means is up to you, the GM, and how you interpret the fiction.

A companion not trained in Labor probably doesn't like carrying loads -- they'll shrug off your belongings and you'll discover they ditched your lantern at the worst possible time. A companion not trained for Travel tires quickly, and the GM will tell you about how it twists an ankle or you make bad time.

The training is exactly like the weapon tags -- they're convenient excuses to remind the GM what kind of hard moves to make when the opportunity presents itself. They're there to stop the GM from going "uuuh uuh so NINJAS ATTACK!" when we all know that's stupid, and your horse probably just lost a shoe on the rocks.