Yes, I think it should work just fine! You'll probably need to tweak some of the Stress-specific rules with regards to paradoxes, but that should be doable. Otherwise, I think all the other basic stuff should apply—damage numbers etc—but it should convert smoothly enough.
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Oh definitely, yeah. They're not even real PDFs, just short little text files. Here are the links:
A Sand Captain's Log: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e3M1UcXlNiUU-xCx-g8vuajF5gtGYYZv/view?usp=shari...
Conversion Guidelines: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13F1sKwkde36JCYeMVYORqG4nOADlM279/view?usp=shari...
Hi! Yes, you're correct. Stopping the Source, as a potential "solution," is meant to be extremely tricky to solve. I don't think there is any obvious "intended" path to solving it—I've heard stories from various GMs making the attempt—but you're totally right that anything that occurs as the direct result of time travel would, of course, get fragged out if time travel never occurred. That's certainly why, say, Mamadou has been unable to do it on his own so far.
I'm a big fan of these kinds of open-ended "solutionless" problems, both as a player and as a designer. It forces the player to engage with the problem head-on, rather than merely hunt for what I as the designer had in mind. A rawer, one might say almost more brutal, form of play.
Hope this helps!
If they fulfill Nazhun's requirements, Bootstrap and Grandparent paradoxes can no longer exist—the timeline "closes," meaning that anything that's happened in the past has already happened. It's a tighter, more restrained, more restrictive mode of time-travel. I'd look at something like Terminator (the first one) or The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate as reference for how this works.
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Hi! There are not unfortunately any readily form-fillable versions of the PDFs, nor are there any spreadsheets or anything similar, at least as far as I know.
If you have to play digitally, my advice would be to either import the PDFs as Google images and edit them directly, or just use a simple shared document—Fax characters aren't all that complicated, fortunately, so they're relatively easy to track.
Sorry again, though.





















