Aggregate Errata

• Small Weapons deal one damage from the front of the target and two damage when attacking the target’s back. Piercing damage is added to small weapons.
• Bow, Crossbow, Arquebus, Javelin, and Thrown Weapons deal two damage. Piercing damage is added to these weapons.
  Unarmed and Medium Weapons deal one damage. Melee damage is added to these weapons.
• Spears and short staves (shafted weapons between thirty and sixty inches in length) deal one damage. Melee damage is added to shafted weapons.
• Polearms and long staves (shafted weapons between sixty and seventy-two inches in length) deal two damage and receive double the benefit from Melee damage increases. Melee damage is added to shafted weapons. Additionally, they gain +1 Burst (Melee) multiplier, provided the character wielding the weapon has a Burst (Melee) of at least 1.
• Large weapons deal two damage and receive double the benefit from Melee damage increases. Melee damage is added to large weapons. Additionally, Large weapons gain +1 Burst (Melee) multiplier, provided the character wielding the weapon has a Burst (Melee) of at least 1.
• Casting Phoki deal two damage and have a five second cooldown. Metaphysical damage is added to casting phoki.

When a character uses a concealment ability, she should immediately don a red headband. However, if a headband is unavailable or doing so would cause an unnecessary interruption to another player, she may instead indicate that she is using a concealment ability with a hand gesture. By raising her arm, bent at a ninety degree angle, in front of her lower face, the character signifies that she is hidden and must be treated as such by all other beings. A character may ask for clarification at any time to determine which color of concealment ability a target is using.
When a character is in the presence of a concealed being or object that she notices OOG, the player must roleplay as if she cannot see the target at all. However, any sounds made by a concealed being – with the exception of OOG speech, such as calling a skill or clarifying the ability being used – may be heard and responded to as normal. While a character may never know for certain unless she uses a detection skill that a concealed being is present, it is reasonable and acceptable to move away from such noises of unknown origin.
If a character wishes to use a detection ability on a concealed target, she must call the skill and receive acknowledgement from the concealed being or marshal. If the target is an object and no marshal is present, the ability automatically succeeds; a marshal may have additional steps or information for the character. If the target is a being, and he is not wearing a headband, he must respond immediately by either affirming the used skill pierces his concealment or calling a defense.

When a character uses a movement ability, she must raise her weapon or closed fist straight into the air over her head and immediately walk to her destination as quickly as possible without stopping; she must walk in a straight line only, and may not navigate around obstacles or terrain. Upon arriving at her destination, she should put down her hand and call Lay On, but does not need to count down in order to do so. While using a movement ability, the character may not take any action whatsoever except for travelling to her destination.
If a being uses a movement ability in front of a character, she must ignore the being until the conclusion of the ability and may not move in the same direction until she calls Lay On. The character may choose to either continue interacting with beings around her, disengage from the being using the skill and walk in a direction opposite him, or freeze in place until Lay On is called.
There are several reaction abilities that may be used in response to movement skills. A being using a movement skill may only be targeted by abilities that specify use against a movement skill. To use one of these abilities, the character must be within ten feet of the target, or closer, if the ability has a shorter range. Additionally, movement skills may be called as reactions to other movement skills. If the character wishes to use a movement skill of her own, she should not wait for Lay On and should instead perform the ability at the same time as the other being.

• The Serious condition of the Death Status Effects has been renamed Incapacitated. The Incapacitated condition has been updated as follows: “The character has a Body point score of zero. A character in the Incapacitated stage must remain on the ground in a barely-conscious state; she may not move from her position unless carried, and may not resist any actions taken towards her. Incapacitated characters may speak no louder than a quiet conversational volume.”
• Killing Blow has been updated as follows: “When an enemy has been bested, a character may perform a killing blow to finish him off. The character must clearly show her intent to kill the target, either verbally or visually, and spend ten seconds roleplaying doing so. She might spend time to line up a perfect shot, speak last rites over the body or performing lethal damage. At the end of the ten seconds, she must call “Killing Blow,” at which point the target is immediately placed into the Critical stage of his Death count.
  This time is considered concentration time and may not be shortened by any means; if the character stops for any reason, invokes any abilities, or suffers any attacks, the Killing Blow is interrupted and must be restarted from the beginning.”
• The Critical condition of the Death Status Effects has been updated as follows: “The character has a Body point score of zero and may not be healed or targeted by any abilities except those that affect the Critical stage. A character in this stage must remain on the ground and may not speak or otherwise interact with her surroundings. After one minute in this stage, the character becomes Dead. All active Augment abilities upon a character end upon entering the Critical stage.”
  Life Effect slots have been removed from the game. There is no longer a limit on how many times a character can be healed from Critical.

• Characters now retain 100% of their Build and Wealth upon retirement. You may not retire into an existing character. Characters may be brought out of retirement at any time.
• Retiring into plot has been updated. Characters now retain only 75% of their Build and Wealth if a retirement scene is pre-scripted with plot. This Build may never be recovered, even if the character is brought out of retirement at a later date. A character retired into a plot ending may only be brought out of retirement after a minimum of one year has passed since her retirement scene.
• When a character is created with more than her fifty starting Build, there is now a limit on the amount of spent Build with which she may enter play. A character may never spend more than 50% of her earned Build (to a maximum of 430 Build, or level 20.) You may always spend up to 50 Build (level 1.)

• Caster Classes gain the following:

  +5 Body Points
  +2 Metaphysical damage ((note: this is for Casting Phokus))
  +1 Burst (Metaphysical) multiplier
  Equipment Proficiencies: Casting Phokus
  A Literacy skill based on the class’s casting source

• Rogue Classes gain the following:

  +10 Body Points
  +2 Piercing damage
  +1 Burst (Piercing) multiplier
  Equipment Proficiencies: Complex Ranged Weapon, Basic Florentine

• Warrior Classes gain the following:

  +15 Body Points
  +1 Melee damage
  +1 Burst (Melee) multiplier
  Equipment Proficiencies: Expert Florentine, Large Shield

• Hybrid Classes gain +10 Body points, the damage of one of their archetypes, the Burst multiplier of one of their archetypes, and any equipment proficiencies or literacies that their archetypes would normally grant.
• Support Classes gain the following:

  +5 Body Points
  +2 Oculum Items
  Equipment Proficiencies: varies per class

• The proficiencies gained by every class can be found on the same page as their skill lists. This section also includes information on the Alignment a class confers, if any.

• When a character learns a class, she gains +1 Burst multiplier for that class archetype’s attacks. This means a character can have a Burst multiplier of 0, if she does not know any classes of that archetype, or from 1-4, depending on the number of classes of that archetype she knows.
• The damaging (and healing) skills now look something like this: “This ability deals ten times the character’s Burst (Metaphysical) damage.” Different abilities deal different amounts of damage - the bolded number will be replaced with however much damage it is. All damaging amounts are in multiples of five, so the amount of damage dealt will always end in a 5 or a 0, which is generally easier to calculate on the fly.
• Abilities that increase weapon damage (which may be listed as “piercing damage” for rogue skills, “melee damage” for warrior skills, or “metaphysical damage” for caster skills) do not affect abilities based on Burst damage. References to weapon damage refer only to non-skill damaging attacks inflicted with a weapon.