It's listed both in the powers that grant the slots (p180-182), and on p278.

1 Focus slot = 2 Enchanted Item slots. Potions are just dedicated Enchanted Item slots.

There's absolutely no problem decoupling refresh and milestones. A milestone should be when something of significance to the story has happened and there's some time to reflect on it; a Refresh happens when there's time to catch your breath a bit. One might absolutely happen without the other :p

Given the steady flow of pledges over the last several days, I have complete confidence that we'll reach both Mouse and the Peace Talks preview even before the last two-day rush.

In fact, I'm getting very curious about what the next set of stretch goals is going to be. That preview sets a pretty high standard!

What I meant was that someone taking you out gets to decide how you are no longer part of that conflict. If they choose that you die, you get to throw your death curse as you always own your death scene. If they dictate that you're knocked out, you don't actually get automatically get to say "I launch my death curse instead". The situation might be such that you could, but it's not necessary by either source fiction or rules.

If you chose to death curse (as a concession for instance), then yes, of course your character is killed. (Even though that might not mean the character is completely gone; for a superb example of a mechanic-light, narratively masterful death curse, have a look at the climax of Haru's PbP Cradle of Darkness! Link is of course very spoilery for the story, I recommend reading it in full instead.)

Most death curses are not continuous effects, Maggie's is explicitly practically unique in its longevity. Most, even from very old and experienced wizards, are immediate and very violent, since the circumstances of their use usually don't leave terribly much time to consider more complex options and once emotions tend to lean toward direct, retaliatory action.

While the Free Will-aspect is interesting, the only non-mortal suspected of being capable of a death curse is Mavra, and BCV are specifically by WoJ on the very low end of free will.

I think we might get around the VAT in this case since they'll import it to UK first, but I'm not sure... (Fellow swede here )

The Kickstart is not going to produce more than these three expansions. There might be more coming after the game is actually published, but SmF/TC with Ramirez and Luccio is the last for now.

And Haru - where are you located? Most of EU will cost $20 shipping (that's what mine will cost), so Base Game + 3 x Expansion + Shipping will be ~$90. Not too violent for a boardgame even if I'm unsure if I can afford the expansions, since I'm unemployed....

Basically, if you're doing a "skill replacement" ritual, you don't need to give yourself a speed power - you just establish how hard the end result is. Basically, how many shifts to travel around the world.

If you want to go with a ritual granting powers, it's rather a questions of what powers would you need in addition to the speed. I'd probably say Wings (levitation, flying Superman-style, whatever) and Recovery of some stripe (for the "Fatigue isn't an issue" function, as you'll still take a while), and then "just" add duration.

Since I want to appreciate the full story, I started from the beginning.
Four days and four books later, I can confidently say that I'm hooked!

I'll report back in when I'm through Hell Bent, just wanted to let you know I really like your stories!