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If I understand your question, the answer is yes. In instances of PVP, there are no particular new rules or considerations.

PCs are just NPCs that the Baron isn't playing.

1) Tattling only ever gains you 1 Avarice per instance of tattling.

2) It would depend on the door but usually yes, I imagine you can hold doors open, but that the Jawbreakers will beat you up if they see you doing that.

You heard it here first, folks.

Endorsed...!

Indeed the idea is that they are "proper names," not titles. This specifically would come into play because it's bad luck to equivocate your name. You were Cathy Lynn, but now that you have fire breath, you're Jane Jorick (or whathaveyou).

There is now an adventure module that comes with the base game!

Thank you so much!

The Negotiator is (ironically) originally from our newest game, Greed, the first draft of which was made by my design partner CXA all the way back while we were in high school. I always thought it was a striking mechanical idea and easy to translate into other systems, so I started quietly putting it into my games as a sort of homage. After I'd done it once or twice, I liked the idea that the Negotiatior was our sort of flagship in-house monster like the Beholder or something.

Thank you for letting us know! That will be fixed in the next update. Thanks for the kind words!

First of all, I'm just delighted to receive such a robust and thoughtful comment. Demonskunk 4ever. Putting in the work to make this system work for you even though it wasn't all there on the page how you wanted is not an ideal play experience, and it's tough(!) so I'm very grateful for you doing it and taking the time to tell me.

I will implement these changes or ones to that effect immediately! Thank you again, and I'm really pleased you had fun with this system.

PS. I would be interested in that Roll20 sheet. I will be in touch if I end up using it for anything for crediting purposes.

Awesome! Email me at Gormengeist@gmail.com and I will give you a download code.

The version that was on Drivethru RPG was a completely different build of the game from three years ago. If someone were to show me proof that they'd bought it back then, I'd send them a copy of the new game, but they are entirely different systems/books.

Aside from that the Vibes are different (though they are pretty easily equatable to an enterprising Clerk/Steward), they are compatible(!) and work within the same framework.

Thank you!

1: There is a Bubblegum Wizards 1, though I see it as a strictly worse version of this one, so it's free. It's the first thing I published on itch and I keep it up mostly for posterity.

2: When I released this, I super did, though now that's not a specific plan on the horizon because I've just released a larger project that I intend on supplementing. But you asking this question has sharply raised the possibility.

Thank you for letting me know! In Bubblegum Wizards 2 (1.2e), there is one change: Hot Shot Esper has a unique description.

Ask and ye shall receive: there is now a printable version of the base rules available with the rest of the downloads.

No, it requires at least 2 people. One to run it, and one to play as a character. Though I'd reccomend about 3 character-players.

I agree that one unified stat seems limiting, but even 1 more would add lots of simple depth. Lots of binaries to choose from (physical/mental, detachment/attachment, instigation/reaction, etc.) that I think could be used to still represent the ways in which people are affected by a sort of crumbling world. For the issue of being good at either one or the other, I see at least one stupid but perhaps worth considering option: roll the stats anyways. In those classic games like Gamma World, it was possible for certain characters to be simply better than others. I think this was built on the understanding that everyone was probably gonna die pretty soon regardless, so you'd get a good chance at rolling a powerful character as well in time. And, it feels good to roll well. But aside from that, it's sort of down to how obstacles are set up, right? Like maybe it's often beneficial to roll middling instead of too high or low, which would benefit the middling statted player. I struggle with the same thing in some of my games, so I don't have any particularly sweet answer.

I think that building it around the narrative tropes of apocalypse movies is a great idea. After all, these are story engines and there's a reason those story beats resonate consistently.  And even in their own movies, the tropes are the result of certain unspoken rules in those movies. For example, when you're kicked out of the safe place, it's probably because if had you been the person that did the kicking, you might have chosen the same thing. Every man for themself type deal. So you could recreate those scenarios without writing that it has to happen- only make it mechanically imperative for things to go that way. Want to stay in the nice city? Pay high taxes. If you can't afford them, you're kicked to the scorching desert. Either the players go on an adventure finding work to pay, or they can't and go on an adventure finding a new home. Kind of a win-win for drama (given there's fun rules for both cases).

It looks to me like there's something down them roads.