1. Evil Acts suggests using Alertness for eavesdropping, but I was under the impression that Investigation was the skill used for that.
If you're actively trying to eavesdrop, Investigation. If you are getting a chance to overhear something you shouldn't by happenstance, Alertness. So in essence I'd support both, but the contexts and opportunities for each are different. Adding: "(Nosy PCs actively trying to listen in should also get an Investigation roll. Alertness here is for the chance to overhear things if a PC stumbles into the opportunity.)"
2. Ariel the Sylph doesn't have Claws. I'm not certain about this, but I think normal Sylphs have Claws to represent their sharpened wings.
Hm, you're right -- I may decide to phrase that as having her wings ritually "clipped" in some fashion, or I'll add 'em back to her sheet.
3. Prospero's rotes and foci contain a small number of oddities:
-How long does Hurricano! last?
-It's not entirely clear what Prospero's book does for his summoning abilities.
-Is two shifts enough to create a scene aspect with Evocation? I'm really not sure.
Added 2 exchanges for Hurricano, Complexity for the book, will review all of these rotes because there are a few things that don't make sense to me.
4. Miranda has an offensive veil. Weird, but probably not against a rule or anything.
Both her rotes read as choker-focused to me. fixing.
5. The chorus should not have specializations.
Correct. Those should simply be stated as parentheticals on their focused power abilities.
Pity you weren't on Twitter when I called for nitpickers prior to publication.
6. Incite Emotion with Performance is not, as far as I know, possible be the rules as written. There's a strong argument to be made that it should be, though. I can probably find a thread about this if you want.
Addressed with a special note.
7. Why is Cal's catch only worth +2? Is his nature as a Changeling secret?
Somewhat. And it's possible that the situation is that it's worse when he's a fae. I'll think about it.
8. Cal's sheet says Superhuman Strength were it should say Supernatural Strength.
Fixed
9. Dana's writeup says that her hawk form dodges at Fantastic. I think that that should probably be Epic. Also, I don't think that her Investigation is Superb for small visual details in either form.
Her Investigation is Superb in human form, full stop. Her diminutive size gives her the bonus to Investigation despite its drop to Good in Hawk form (Good + 2 = Superb; Small is Big).
You're right about the dodging; I'd missed the +1 from each of speed and size.
10. Pat has the entire wizard template and better casting skills than Harry in Storm Front. So why is he not considered a wizard?
I'm comfy with Chad's response to this part.
Also, how did you come up with Sycorax's stats and tricks? I'm not really sure how to represent her mechanically without handwaving.
The way I read it, Sycorax is a plot device scale entity that gets modestly constrained (to the point of being assailable) by manifesting into something physical. So that's why the handwavium is rampant.
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