I find myself thinking about and looking forward to visiting Koriko daily - I’m only drawing a card a day and writing a quick two page journal entry due to work demands, but it’s refreshing me so much to be writing and imagining again! I do wonder if I’m understanding the instructions right, I can’t quite figure out how and when to add skills (just with risks, only successes, or also hangouts?) and am new to rpg so am not sure if there’s examples or lists out there of skills to choose from that will make sense later. But I’m having fun making it up, whether I’m doing it right or not! Thanks Jack! I’ve recommended this to so many friends already!
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Hey! Glad you’re having a good time :)
Your skills are always the same—Power, Craft, Care and Lore (see page 15). Underneath those skills you add lessons (see page 19)—short summaries of an experience, typically a single sentence. For example:
- I helped Farmer Benetto cure his orchard of blight.
- I broke the curse on Gonville’s pigskin hat.
- I stood up to Andrea’s bullies in the palace gardens.
You write a new lesson whenever instructed—most often at the end of a volume or after a successful dice stacking, but also in a number of other ways. You’ll always see it written as ‘Write a new lesson’. Hope that helps!
Ah, yes - very much, thank you! I did not read that quite right, and then was looking much later in the book for his info. I just went to a writing retreat and everyone was so curious, was really fun to share. My witch just figured out how to rig a clever cooling device - if only I could have one for this heat ;)