Alright, I am officially ready to start working on character sheet revisions. Before I do that, I will need each of you to submit a journal entry - just like you would do normally when requesting changes - with the following information:
1: What is your character's Affinity Sphere? (This can still be the Tradition specialty, but it doesn't have to be. Choose the one that's most closely tied to your character's personal paradigm.)
2: What is their Focus? The Focus is composed of: 1 Paradigm, 1-3 Practice(s) and at least 7 Instruments. Let me know if you would like to keep their customized Paradigm description or if you want to remove it. You do not have to choose a Paradigm from the book. If you find one that fits, awesome. If not, that's cool too. Please label the character's Personalized Instrument (you only get one and it should be tied to the Affinity Sphere) and any Unique Instruments you want to claim (if there are any.) For those of you with Arete 3 characters, which Instrument have they surpassed?
3: How would you like to reclassify their Resonance traits? Since the Resonance rules have changed, they will no longer be using the same categories they did in Revised. The categories (or "flavors") are now: Devotional, Elemental, Stabilizing and Temperamental. See Chapter 10, part 5. (Page 561 in my version of the pdf.)
4: If your character has any dots in Art, Crafts, Martial Arts, Academics, Esoterica or Science and they do not already have a specialty in those traits, what specialties would you like to choose? These traits all require a specialty, regardless of how many dots you have in them. If you formerly had specialties in Crafts or Expression that now need to be moved to Art, what would you like their new Crafts/Expression specialties to be?
5: What other changes would you like to make?
This can be relevant to the new system, or it can just be general stuff like fixing or updating things. No request is too small. If you want me to change the formatting of something or add a note to the bio or fix a spelling error, feel free to let me know. Mostly though, I expect a number of you may want to re-tool some of the Ability traits.
If you would like to move points around, you have two options: swapping dots directly from one ability to another or trading them in for XP (this would be the same amount of XP you used to purchase them with) and then using that XP to purchase something new. Obviously, this is not something that I would normally allow. However, given the system update, I want to make sure you're all able to accurately reflect your character's abilities on their sheet. So, say you have 4 dots in Crafts that's meant to reflect an artistic pursuit and now you need to move those dots into Art. The easy thing to do would be to swap the points over, but maybe you already have a dot or two in Art because of the character's former Performance trait. So instead, you can convert some of those dots in Crafts to XP and use that to buy up Art the rest of the way. And maybe you have some points left over for something else.
You can also, of course, just buy things up normally with the XP you already have. (Say, if you want to get a second specialty for Art or buy up some dots in Esoterica that you didn't previously have.)
If you want to change your character's Nature and/or Demeanor based on the updates, make a note of that as well.
6: If you have something on your sheet that's needed fixing for a while, such as a missing Specialty (I know at least a couple of you still don't have Empathy specialties listed from when we added that) or a Flaw that you need to buy off, please let me know so we can correct this now. For example, if you have an Enemy that has never shown up and is (realistically) probably never going to, or something like Nightmares or a Phobia that you kind of forgot about and haven't been rolling.
Once you submit this request, please notify me in the Expenditure Requests thread as per usual.
1: What is your character's Affinity Sphere? (This can still be the Tradition specialty, but it doesn't have to be. Choose the one that's most closely tied to your character's personal paradigm.)
2: What is their Focus? The Focus is composed of: 1 Paradigm, 1-3 Practice(s) and at least 7 Instruments. Let me know if you would like to keep their customized Paradigm description or if you want to remove it. You do not have to choose a Paradigm from the book. If you find one that fits, awesome. If not, that's cool too. Please label the character's Personalized Instrument (you only get one and it should be tied to the Affinity Sphere) and any Unique Instruments you want to claim (if there are any.) For those of you with Arete 3 characters, which Instrument have they surpassed?
3: How would you like to reclassify their Resonance traits? Since the Resonance rules have changed, they will no longer be using the same categories they did in Revised. The categories (or "flavors") are now: Devotional, Elemental, Stabilizing and Temperamental. See Chapter 10, part 5. (Page 561 in my version of the pdf.)
4: If your character has any dots in Art, Crafts, Martial Arts, Academics, Esoterica or Science and they do not already have a specialty in those traits, what specialties would you like to choose? These traits all require a specialty, regardless of how many dots you have in them. If you formerly had specialties in Crafts or Expression that now need to be moved to Art, what would you like their new Crafts/Expression specialties to be?
5: What other changes would you like to make?
This can be relevant to the new system, or it can just be general stuff like fixing or updating things. No request is too small. If you want me to change the formatting of something or add a note to the bio or fix a spelling error, feel free to let me know. Mostly though, I expect a number of you may want to re-tool some of the Ability traits.
If you would like to move points around, you have two options: swapping dots directly from one ability to another or trading them in for XP (this would be the same amount of XP you used to purchase them with) and then using that XP to purchase something new. Obviously, this is not something that I would normally allow. However, given the system update, I want to make sure you're all able to accurately reflect your character's abilities on their sheet. So, say you have 4 dots in Crafts that's meant to reflect an artistic pursuit and now you need to move those dots into Art. The easy thing to do would be to swap the points over, but maybe you already have a dot or two in Art because of the character's former Performance trait. So instead, you can convert some of those dots in Crafts to XP and use that to buy up Art the rest of the way. And maybe you have some points left over for something else.
You can also, of course, just buy things up normally with the XP you already have. (Say, if you want to get a second specialty for Art or buy up some dots in Esoterica that you didn't previously have.)
If you want to change your character's Nature and/or Demeanor based on the updates, make a note of that as well.
6: If you have something on your sheet that's needed fixing for a while, such as a missing Specialty (I know at least a couple of you still don't have Empathy specialties listed from when we added that) or a Flaw that you need to buy off, please let me know so we can correct this now. For example, if you have an Enemy that has never shown up and is (realistically) probably never going to, or something like Nightmares or a Phobia that you kind of forgot about and haven't been rolling.
Once you submit this request, please notify me in the Expenditure Requests thread as per usual.