1) Just out of curiosity, why is it the NPC Acacia has a pair of twin lesser demons, yet she doesn't have any Abilities like Arcane Magic, Companion, Minions, or Spirit Medium to represent them? I thought it was probably because she was an NPC and didn't need such Abilities to reflect having henchm...

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Hello again Clay. A few more questions that came up: 1) The level of the Knowledge Ability and the Ineptitude Weakness are counted as half at character creation for the purposes of character creation limitations like the Base Zero rule, is that right? Well does that half price cost apply after chara...

Thanks a lot for all of that Clay, you're awesome and that really clears up a lot. I feel a lot more confident with this new system now.

I see. Thanks for that distinction. And it's really good to know that one can't take multiple Weaknesses that refer to the same thing, as I wasn't sure about that.

So I was talking to one of my players about our upcoming game, and they brought up the question of how sentient equipment - such as a sentient sword - would be handled. They had assumed it would just be Gear as normal, but just consider it to be sentient. But to me, Gear seemed like it should always...

Sorry for rolling a critical success on my number of questions roll in the post above, Clay haha. I know you're busy but whenever you get a chance, at your leisure I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts on the above questions!

Compulsion: You have an intense need to act a certain way or perform some task, even when doing so could prove inconvenient. Dependency: You have a deeply ingrained need for something. Obsession: You have an intense desire to have or achieve something. Soft Spot: There is something in this world th...

Thanks Clay, I appreciate the answers and clarifications, that really helps. 1) On another note, a quick question about Barrier. In the little blurb after the Ability, it says in regards to Barriers with the Effective Perk: " In this case, Barrier is treated like an Attack Roll against zero, an...

Thanks, that does clear it up a bit. Now, just to make sure I understand it, when the book talks about making a "suite" of attacks for the Attack Ability, you basically just make up some kind of special move, be it the use of a weapon or a martial arts technique, give it a unique name with...

Thanks for that. 5) And, another thing that's been confusing me a bit is all the various ways of making weapons and equipment. Even though it's discussed in the book (such as the Focus vs. Other Abilities and Flaws blurb on page 71), and I've seen some threads on it here, I'm still not sure of what ...

I never made an explicit ruling in the text about this because there’s two ways to look at it. You could say you’re exceptionally unlucky that you rolled all those ones, and it should be a failure no matter what. On the other hand, you could say you’re really lucky to be able to succeed despite rol...

Thanks. I figured that the two bonus dice always applied but I wanted to confirm just to make sure. While I'm at it, there have been a few other questions that I've been wondering about the Revised Edition: 2) In the original edition, I recall it clearly stating that 1s were never added together, an...

I'm still pretty new to OVA, and I had a quick rules question about actions. 1) Based on the Taking Action chapter, I assumed that one always starts with the default two dice to roll before Abilities, Bonuses, Weaknesses, and/or Penalties are taken into account. But while reading the descriptions of...