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Added all Chosen powers (Spirits, Faerie, and Ancestors) and changed the Spiritual conceptual realm from the Elemental Chaos to Gaia.

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Updated the Combat section with rules for various types of combat actions, as well as properly delineating sizes and falling damage.

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Updated Equipment and added weapons, armor, and drugs.

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Added all Generic Flow powers, updated table of contents and reformatted many core posts.

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added Contacts and rules for purchasing, acquiring, using, and losing them.

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Added/Updated all powers for the Fated archetype.

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I've also found that higher attack speeds with lower damage are generally more efficient use of overall time than slower attacks with higher damage. This is so bizarre of a statement that it's hard to seriously continue the conversation. Like, it genuinely seems like you are in some way concerned a...

Grek wrote:Agents are decker drones. You command them just like drones, and they take hacking actions autonomously until crashed or recalled.

This is possibly the single best explanation of Agents in SR I have ever seen.

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'Gygaxian' and 'Jacksonian' seem sufficiently cromulent.

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The second problem here is the potential conflict between campaign duration and feeling of accomplishment. If the PCs can overcome the big existential threat, then what keeps them from turning on each other afterwards? If they cannot overcome the big existential threat, then how is it even possible...

Removed tradition-specific flow methodologies and made flow methodologies more generic and shared by all traditions, to remove redundancies in the case of things like engravings and implants.

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Added yet more powers (all Conspiracy Theorist powers are now complete), added the first few traits, replaced Automatic powers with Suggested Starting powers, and introduced the concept of progression templates, allowing players to build and advance characters in a more class-oriented fashion if the...

Update: all conceptual realms have been fleshed out and some new powers have been added.

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schpeelah wrote:Doubt had a bunch of nice villain concepts but not much else going for it. I was certainly disappointed in the proposed types of PCs.

Does this include the updated archetypes in this thread specifically?

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Doubt is a fairly different game than After Sundown along a lot of axes - about the only thing they share is that they are both Urban Fantasy/Horror. There are no SAN mechanics, but there are Humanity mechanics and Flow Rating, which are pretty much the same thing. The mechanics of magic use in Doub...

Some quick updates: Strange Rating has been renamed to Flow Rating (to avoid being too similar to Monte Cook's The Strange RPG, which has already resembles Doubt a little too closely for comfort), and the nightmarish creatures from distant realms of probability are now collectively known as The Irra...

Flow Powers Note - this is mostly just a place to keep notes for myself at the moment. Stuff will later be fleshed out to display power costs/details/action types/prerequisites/whatever. Gaining and Expending Flow Points Whenever a character is exposed to manipulated Flow from a force outside the C...

Conditions " Does this look infected to you? " Affliction : Creatures with the Afflicted condition take damage in an ongoing fashion. Typically, an affliction's number of points of damage inflicted and interval of infliction are specified as [damage]/[rate]. For example, an 2/minute affli...

Combat " You gonna do somethin', or just stand there and bleed? " Initiative : Characters roll 1d20 and act in descending order (some powers grant bonuses to this roll). The battlefield is split up into Zones, with moving between zones costing an action (moving within the same zone is fre...

Humanity, Contacts, and the Irrationals “ Hell is other people. " Humanity and Lost Ones “ Consider the way “moral man” is veiled behind moral formulas and concepts of decency — the way our actions are benevolently concealed by the concepts of duty, virtue, sense of community, honorableness, s...

Equipment “ Hey man, you can never have enough. " Characters may carry a variety of types of equipment, typically consisting of four categories: personal effects, drugs, weapons, and armor. Each item has a Rarity rating (how difficult it is to acquire and how much trouble you can get into if c...

Yes, it is. You can watch the Doubt Megathread (pinned as a sticky at the top of the IMHO board) for updates.

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So after contemplating various resolution mechanic options for Doubt, I've come to a couple of different conclusions: 1. A resolution mechanic actually has two dimensions: how often you succeed at a given difficulty, and your maximum potential level of success (in other words, how often you fail, an...

Paradox “ It is inevitable -- indeed, axiomatic -- that my truth cannot be your truth, and vice versa. Comparison, collaboration, even compromise are possible, certainly; but in the end, only one truth is the ultimate truth. " Flow powers typically alter probability in one of two ways: either ...

Between and Beyond “ When seen from afar, a sphere appears simply to be a circle; it is only when new perspective is gained that its true nature becomes more apparent. The world that you see is not all of the world that there is -- to say nothing of the worlds beyond this one. ” In addition to cont...