Hey, Dan! As always, thanks for the positive comments!
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*Dan asks a question about the metaplot* | Is the explanation for the White Event as understood by the characters in the setting something that people cooked up after the fact to explain it? And if so, who came up with it? |
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| The White Light is known to characters in the setting as an atomic bomb drop with magic, more or less. It was some sort of great, powerful attack that destroyed the big enemy city and ended the war. Everyone generally knows this and other bits of history - this reality came into existence with people fully formed and with basic explanations for the way things are. You could say that the universe came up with it. |
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Speaking of spoilers, you might want to consider using spoiler text for Big Secrets. 
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*nods* I've done it before in reviews and I don't care for it so much. I have to change the background to black, since vb code doesn't work, and then folk have a really big block of black text. I hope that when folk get to the part that's clearly about all the big secrets they can skip it without having the surprise spoiled. If some folk object I'll change it in future reviews.
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Regarding the mechanics: since attributes are on a 1-8 scale and skills are on a 0-5 scale, doesn't the system strongly bias in favor of attributes? Or does the partial success issue balance that out?
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That's an interesting observation. IIRC (I'm far away from my book right now) Skills and Attributes may both be raised to 10 after character creation.