TODO.md

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ Stuff to take care of when I'm not doing the stuff I should be doing first.
   Control the Savage? Note the difference in costs, though.
 * similar problem for Bound Magic Creature/Familiar, pretty much identical powers, maybe can just change the references
   to one to the other
-* looking randomly at the A list, there's probably some stuff that needs to be resorted
 
 ## Genres - Superheroes
 

patches/base/042-move-apocalyptic-abilities.patch

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-@@ -10196,6 +10196,8 @@
- immediate range. Whenever you want, your body (entirely or just part of it) sheds light, illuminating everything in
- short range. Enabler.
- 
-+Apocalyptic Stare: Your demeanor is of someone who shouldn't be trifled with. You are trained in intimidation. Enabler.
-+
- Applying Your Knowledge: When you help another character undertake any action that you're untrained in, you are treated
- as if you are trained in it. Action.
- 
-@@ -10256,6 +10258,10 @@
- can hear and understand you so forcefully that they are unable to take any action, including attacks, for one round.
- Whether you succeed or fail, the next action the target takes is hindered. Action.
- 
-+Assisted Sight (3 Intellect points): You can activate a visual overlay that helps you analyze threats and boons in your
-+environment. When you trigger this ability, you gain an asset on one attack or defense roll of any type, due to your
-+knowledge about the situation. Enabler.
-+
- Assume Control (6+ Intellect points): You control the actions of another creature you have interacted with or studied
- for at least a round. This effect lasts for ten minutes. The target must be level 2 or lower. Once you have assumed
- control, the target acts as if it wants to accomplish your desire to the best of its ability, freely using its own best
-@@ -10701,6 +10707,8 @@
- increase your gun damage. Each level of Effort adds 3 points of damage to a successful attack, and if you spend a turn
- lining up your shot, each level of Effort instead adds 5 points of damage to a successful attack. Enabler.
- 
-+Careful Tracker: You are trained in stealth and tracking tasks. Enabler.
-+
- Cast Illusion: You can increase the range at which you create and maintain your
- immediate-range illusions (such as from Minor Illusion) to anywhere within short range that you can perceive. Enabler.
- 
-@@ -11717,6 +11725,11 @@
- Escape Plan: When you kill a foe, you can attempt a stealth task to immediately hide from anyone around, assuming that a
- suitable hiding place is nearby. Enabler.
- 
-+Escape the Ruins (6 Intellect points): While in any area containing ruins from before the apocalypse, you find or create
-+a significant shortcut, secret entrance, or emergency escape route where it looked like none existed. Doing so requires
-+that you succeed on an Intellect action whose difficulty is set by the GM based on the situation. You and the GM should
-+work out the details. Action.
-+
- Evanesce (3 Speed points): You step into shadows or behind cover, and everyone who was observing you completely loses
- track of you. Although you're not invisible, you can't be seen until you reveal yourself again by moving out of the
- shadows or from behind cover (or by making an attack). Action.
-@@ -11946,6 +11959,10 @@
- 
- Fists of Fury: You inflict 2 additional points of damage with unarmed attacks. Enabler.
- 
-+Fixer: You've learned enough of the past that you are trained in tasks to repair and build before‑times equipment, or
-+equipment made with before‑times parts. In addition, repairing and building tasks take you about 20% less time to
-+complete. Enabler.
-+
- Flamboyant Boast (1 Intellect point): You boastfully describe an act that you will accomplish, and then as part of the
- same action, you attempt it. If an average person would find the action difficult (or impossible) and you succeed on it,
- creatures who witnessed it who are not your allies are potentially dazed on their next turn, and all tasks they attempt
-@@ -12108,6 +12125,13 @@
- of damage. Alternatively, you can use this ability on a weapon, and for ten minutes, it inflicts 1 additional point of
- damage from the cold. Action for touch; enabler for weapon.
- 
-+Fruitfully Pass the Time (4 Intellect points): You are trained in one performance skill, such as singing; playing a
-+fiddle, harmonica, or other instrument; or something else that others would enjoy watching or hearing you do. When you
-+perform with the skill gained through this ability for one minute and you succeed on a difficulty 3 performance roll,
-+you and all allies within short range who can hear and see you immediately gain a one‑action recovery roll. You can't
-+use this on someone again until you use a one‑hour or ten‑hour recovery roll. Action to initiate, one minute to
-+complete.
-+
- Further Mathematics: You are specialized in higher mathematics. If you are already specialized, choose some other sphere
- of knowledge to become trained in. Enabler.
- 
-@@ -12375,6 +12399,8 @@
- Hard-Won Resilience: In your explorations of dark places, you've been exposed to all sorts of terrible things and are
- developing a general resistance. You gain +1 to Armor and are trained in Might defense tasks. Enabler.
- 
-+Hardened by the End: You're trained in Might defense tasks.
-+
- Harder Light: When you create an object out of hard light, the object is one level higher than normal. Enabler.
- 
- Hardiness: You are trained in Might defense tasks. Enabler.
-@@ -12858,6 +12884,11 @@
- associated with a roll, but in certain cases the GM may decide that there is a chance for you not to know. In these
- cases, you are specialized in knowing creature weaknesses. Enabler.
- 
-+Know the Way: You are familiar with before‑times buildings and other structures, which extends to ruins of the same. You
-+are trained in tasks related to getting around inside those buildings quickly, finding alternate routes, finding places
-+to hide, and other tasks associated with gaining a benefit by being able to picture a likely floor plan of any given
-+building. Enabler.
-+
- Know Where to Look: Whenever the GM obtains a result for you on the Useful Stuff table, you get two results instead of
- one. If the GM is using some other method to generate rewards for finding valuables, you should gain double the result
- you would otherwise obtain. Enabler.
-@@ -13769,6 +13800,10 @@
- from wearing armor. You reduce the Speed cost for wearing armor by 1. You start the game with a type of armor of your
- choice. Enabler.
- 
-+Practiced in Light Armor: You can wear light armor for long periods of time without tiring and can compensate for slowed
-+reactions from wearing light armor. You reduce the Speed cost for wearing light armor by 1. You start the game with a
-+type of light armor available in the area, such as a leather jacket. Enabler.
-+
- Practiced With All Weapons: You become practiced with light, medium, and heavy weapons and suffer no penalty when using
- any kind of weapon. Enabler.
- 
-@@ -13811,6 +13846,22 @@
- you designate. Alternatively, you can choose to learn a creature's level; however, if you do so, you cannot learn
- anything else about it later with this ability. Action.
- 
-+Prepared Caches: You have a prepped secret hideout with shelter and basic supplies capable of seeing you through a year
-+or more, or up to six people through about three months. In addition, you have knowledge of three different secret
-+supply caches you put together and hid before everything fell apart, chosen from the following. The caches are located
-+no closer than about 5 miles (8 km) from each other.
-+
-+• Food cache (enough food for six people for twelve weeks)
-+
-+• Water cache (enough clean water for six people for twelve weeks)
-+
-+• Ammunition cache (400 shells or bullets for four different weapons)
-+
-+• Firearm cache (six firearms; a mix of light, medium, and heavy weapons, each usually found with about ten bullets or
-+shells)
-+
-+Enabler.
-+
- Preternatural Senses: While you are conscious and able to use an action, you cannot be surprised. In addition, you are
- trained in initiative actions. Enabler.
- 
-@@ -13981,6 +14032,11 @@
- 
- ### Abilities --- R
- 
-+Raider Follower: You gain a level 3 follower (initiative, stealth, and defense as level 4). The follower does as you say
-+and, generally speaking, isn't someone who makes the other PCs in your group feel uncomfortable because of their
-+
-+presence. Enabler.
-+
- Rally to Me (2 Intellect points): You cry out, blow a battle horn, or otherwise signal to everyone within very long
- range that you require aid. All allied creatures who respond by moving to within an immediate distance of you within the
- next few rounds gain one asset on any one attack or defense task within the next hour that you suggest, such as "Hold
-@@ -14147,6 +14203,14 @@
- and so on). However, you are dazed for a round afterward yourself, during which time all your tasks are hindered. If you
- have the Move Mountains ability, both abilities cost 3 fewer Intellect points to use. Action.
- 
-+Resource Seeker (3+ Intellect points): When you are looking for a specific inexpensive item you'd like to scavenge from
-+nearby ruins, such as a candle, an aspirin, or a can of preserved chili, you can focus your attention on it so that you
-+are more likely to find it. For the next ten minutes, if what you are seeking is within long range, you find it if you
-+succeed on a difficulty 2 Intellect roll. Each time you use this ability again in the same area, the difficulty is
-+hindered by one additional step. For each level of Effort you apply, you can attempt to find an object of one higher
-+expense category, but the base difficulty of the Intellect roll also increases by 1 per higher expense category. Action
-+to initiate.
-+
- Restful Presence: Creatures who make a recovery roll within short range of you add +1 to their roll. Enabler.
- 
- Restore Life (9+ Intellect points): You can attempt to restore life to a dead creature of up to level 3, as long as the
-@@ -14760,6 +14824,11 @@
- Stare Them Down: One doesn't play games of chicken with other maniac drivers without gaining mental strength. You're
- trained in Intellect defense tasks. Enabler.
- 
-+Stashed Vehicle: You track down where you or a fellow prepper stashed a vehicle, pristinely stored to remain in working
-+order with minimal repairs required. The vehicle has a viable power source (such as hundreds of gallons of gasoline
-+treated to resist decomposition, or a rechargeable battery with options for solar or wind recharging). The vehicle could
-+be an all‑terrain vehicle (ATV), a truck, or something else; work with your GM to figure out the particulars. Enabler
-+
- Stasis (3 Intellect points): You surround a foe of your size or smaller with scintillating energy, keeping it from
- moving or acting for one minute, as if frozen solid. You must be able to see the target, and it must be within short
- range. While in stasis, the target is impervious to harm, cannot be moved, and is immune to all effects. Action.
-@@ -14905,6 +14974,10 @@
- Surprise Attack: If attacking from a hidden vantage, with surprise, or before your opponent has acted, you get an asset
- on the attack. On a successful hit, you inflict 2 additional points of damage. Enabler.
- 
-+Surviving the Wasteland: Given about half a day of walking and scavenging, you find enough edible food and potable water
-+in the ruins or surrounding wasteland for you and up to one other person for one day. The resources might be scavenged
-+from before‑times supplies, living flora and fauna, and uncontaminated water sources. Enabler.
-+
- Swim (1+ Intellect points): You can swim like a fish through water and similar liquid for one hour. For each level of
- Effort applied, you can extend the duration by one hour. You swim about 10 miles (16 km) per hour, and you are not
- affected by currents in the water. Action to initiate.
-@@ -15145,6 +15218,9 @@
- 
- one-thousandth of your normal height may be a means of doing so.
- 
-+Tolerance: This hard life has built up your resistance over time, so you are trained in resisting the effects of natural
-+poisons (such as those from plants or living creatures) and radiation. You're also immune to natural diseases. Enabler.
-+
- Tool Mastery: When you have an asset from using a tool, the time required to perform the task is cut in half (minimum
- one round). Enabler.
- 
-@@ -15174,6 +15250,9 @@
- 
- Trained Excavator: You are trained in perception, climbing, and salvaging tasks. Enabler.
- 
-+Trained for Toughing It: Choose one noncombat skill that would be helpful for surviving after the apocalypse, such as
-+hunting, tracking, carpentry, or stealth. You are trained in that skill. Enabler.
-+
- Trained Gunner: You can choose from one of two benefits. Either you are trained in using guns, or you have the Spray
- ability (which costs 2 Speed points): If a weapon has the ability to fire rapid shots without reloading (usually called
- a rapid-fire weapon, such as an automatic pistol), you can spray multiple shots around your target to increase the
-@@ -15331,6 +15410,13 @@
- (about 2,000 feet each round) for up to ten minutes (about 35 miles), after which you must stop and make a recovery
- roll. (Move up to 322 kph \[about 600 m each round\] for up to ten minutes \[about 56 km\].) Enabler.
- 
-+Use the Network (5 Intellect points): With a few minutes of looking around and preparing, you can access remnants of the
-+before‑times internet and satellite network (or an active network on which AIs who are not immediately dangerous
-+reside). The GM may decide there is no such connection in the area, but if there is, you can ask one basic question
-+about anything happening within 10 miles (16 km) and receive a simple answer. For example, you could ask about the
-+location of a specific creature or individual, and if they are within the range of this ability, you'll learn about it
-+from a still‑functioning camera feed, satellite feed, or AI interaction. Action to initiate.
-+
- Use Senses of Others (4 Intellect points): You can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste through the senses of anyone with
- whom you have telepathic contact by using Telepathic or similar abilities. You can attempt to use this ability on a
- willing or unwilling target within long range; an unwilling target can try to resist. You don't need to see the target,
-@@ -15410,6 +15496,14 @@
- 
- Warding Shield: You have +1 to Armor while you are using a shield. Enabler.
- 
-+Wasteland Camouflage (5+ Speed or Intellect points): By drawing your clothing about you just so and using various tricks
-+and your deep knowledge of your surroundings, you become invisible for ten minutes in any landscape that contains ruins
-+of the before‑times. (You may also attempt this in a purely wilderness setting, but if you do, you must spend 1
-+additional point from Speed or Intellect, whichever Pool you activated this power with.) While you are invisible, this
-+asset eases your stealth and Speed defense tasks by two steps. This effect ends if you do something to reveal your
-+presence or position—attacking, using an ability, moving a large object, and so on. If this occurs, you can regain the
-+remaining invisibility effect by taking an action to focus on hiding your position. Action to initiate or reinitiate.
-+
- Water Adaptation: You can breathe water as easily as you breathe air. Enabler.
- 
- Weapon and Body (5 Speed points): After making a melee weapon or ranged weapon attack, you follow up with a punch or
-@@ -15424,6 +15518,9 @@
- 
- Weapon Defense: While your chosen weapon is in your hand(s), you are trained in Speed defense rolls. Enabler.
- 
-+Weapon at Hand: You're practiced with all weapons. To gain this benefit with a weapon you've never used before, you must
-+spend at least ten minutes practicing with it first. Enabler.
-+
- Weapon Master: You inflict an additional 1 point of damage with your chosen weapon. Enabler.
- 
- Weaponization: One light or medium melee weapon of your choice is built into your body, and you are trained in using it.
-@@ -39380,9 +39477,7 @@
- 
- Ability Choice: Choose either Assisted Sight or Machine Telepathy as your tier 4 ability.
- 
--Assisted Sight (3 Intellect points): You can activate a visual overlay that helps you analyze threats and boons in your
--environment. When you trigger this ability, you gain an asset on one attack or defense roll of any type, due to your
--knowledge about the situation. Enabler.
-+Assisted Sight
- 
- Machine Telepathy
- 
-@@ -39437,28 +39532,11 @@
- 
- Tier 1:P
- 
--Practiced in Light Armor: You can wear light armor for long periods of time without tiring and can compensate for slowed
--reactions from wearing light armor. You reduce the Speed cost for wearing light armor by 1. You start the game with a
--type of light armor available in the area, such as a leather jacket. Enabler.
--
--Prepared Caches: You have a prepped secret hideout with shelter and basic supplies capable of seeing you through a year
--or more, or up to six people through about three months. In addition, you have knowledge of three different secret
--supply caches you put together and hid before everything fell apart, chosen from the following. The caches are located
--no closer than about 5 miles (8 km) from each other.
--
--• Food cache (enough food for six people for twelve weeks)
--
--• Water cache (enough clean water for six people for twelve weeks)
--
--• Ammunition cache (400 shells or bullets for four different weapons)
--
--• Firearm cache (six firearms; a mix of light, medium, and heavy weapons, each usually found with about ten bullets or
--shells)
-+Practiced in Light Armor
- 
--Enabler.
-+Prepared Caches
- 
--Trained for Toughing It: Choose one noncombat skill that would be helpful for surviving after the apocalypse, such as
--hunting, tracking, carpentry, or stealth. You are trained in that skill. Enabler.
-+Trained for Toughing It
- 
- Tier 2:
- 
-@@ -39470,23 +39548,13 @@
- 
- Ability Choice: Choose either Fruitfully Pass the Time or Stashed Vehicle as your tier 3 ability.
- 
--Fruitfully Pass the Time (4 Intellect points): You are trained in one performance skill, such as singing; playing a
--fiddle, harmonica, or other instrument; or something else that others would enjoy watching or hearing you do. When you
--perform with the skill gained through this ability for one minute and you succeed on a difficulty 3 performance roll,
--you and all allies within short range who can hear and see you immediately gain a one‑action recovery roll. You can't
--use this on someone again until you use a one‑hour or ten‑hour recovery roll. Action to initiate, one minute to
--complete.
-+Fruitfully Pass the Time
- 
--Stashed Vehicle: You track down where you or a fellow prepper stashed a vehicle, pristinely stored to remain in working
--order with minimal repairs required. The vehicle has a viable power source (such as hundreds of gallons of gasoline
--treated to resist decomposition, or a rechargeable battery with options for solar or wind recharging). The vehicle could
--be an all‑terrain vehicle (ATV), a truck, or something else; work with your GM to figure out the particulars. Enabler
-+Stashed Vehicle
- 
- Tier 4:
- 
--Know Where to Look: Whenever the GM obtains a result for you on the Useful Stuff table, you get two results instead of
--one. If the GM is using some other method to generate rewards for finding valuables, you gain double the result you
--would otherwise obtain. Enabler.
-+Know Where to Look
- 
- Tier 5:
- 
-@@ -39498,10 +39566,7 @@
- 
- Discipline of Watchfulness
- 
--Escape the Ruins (6 Intellect points): While in any area containing ruins from before the apocalypse, you find or create
--a significant shortcut, secret entrance, or emergency escape route where it looked like none existed. Doing so requires
--that you succeed on an Intellect action whose difficulty is set by the GM based on the situation. You and the GM should
--work out the details. Action.
-+Escape the Ruins
- 
- Raids
- 
-@@ -39540,7 +39605,7 @@
- 
- Tier 2:
- 
--Careful Tracker: You are trained in stealth and tracking tasks. Enabler.
-+Careful Tracker
- 
- Fearsome Reputation
- 
-@@ -39548,10 +39613,7 @@
- 
- Ability Choice: Choose either Raider Follower or Grand Deception as your tier 3 ability.
- 
--Raider Follower: You gain a level 3 follower (initiative, stealth, and defense as level 4). The follower does as you say
--and, generally speaking, isn't someone who makes the other PCs in your group feel uncomfortable because of their
--
--presence. Enabler.
-+Raider Follower
- 
- Grand Deception
- 
-@@ -39603,33 +39665,21 @@
- 
- Tier 1:
- 
--Ruin Lore: You are trained in scavenging, which means you're more likely to find useful things (and junk that can
--potentially be turned into useful things) in the ruins of what came before. Enabler.
-+Ruin Lore
- 
- Knowledge Skills
- 
- Tier 2:
- 
--Fixer: You've learned enough of the past that you are trained in tasks to repair and build before‑times equipment, or
--equipment made with before‑times parts. In addition, repairing and building tasks take you about 20% less time to
--complete. Enabler.
-+Fixer
- 
--Know the Way: You are familiar with before‑times buildings and other structures, which extends to ruins of the same. You
--are trained in tasks related to getting around inside those buildings quickly, finding alternate routes, finding places
--to hide, and other tasks associated with gaining a benefit by being able to picture a likely floor plan of any given
--building. Enabler.
-+Know the Way
- 
- Tier 3:
- 
- Ability Choice: Choose either Disable Mechanisms or Resource Seeker as your tier 3 ability. Disable Mechanisms
- 
--Resource Seeker (3+ Intellect points): When you are looking for a specific inexpensive item you'd like to scavenge from
--nearby ruins, such as a candle, an aspirin, or a can of preserved chili, you can focus your attention on it so that you
--are more likely to find it. For the next ten minutes, if what you are seeking is within long range, you find it if you
--succeed on a difficulty 2 Intellect roll. Each time you use this ability again in the same area, the difficulty is
--hindered by one additional step. For each level of Effort you apply, you can attempt to find an object of one higher
--expense category, but the base difficulty of the Intellect roll also increases by 1 per higher expense category. Action
--to initiate.
-+Resource Seeker
- 
- Tier 4:
- 
-@@ -39647,12 +39697,7 @@
- 
- Skill With Defense
- 
--Use the Network (5 Intellect points): With a few minutes of looking around and preparing, you can access remnants of the
--before‑times internet and satellite network (or an active network on which AIs who are not immediately dangerous
--reside). The GM may decide there is no such connection in the area, but if there is, you can ask one basic question
--about anything happening within 10 miles (16 km) and receive a simple answer. For example, you could ask about the
--location of a specific creature or individual, and if they are within the range of this ability, you'll learn about it
--from a still‑functioning camera feed, satellite feed, or AI interaction. Action to initiate.
-+Use the Network
- 
- Walks the Wasteland
- 
-@@ -39693,21 +39738,17 @@
- 
- Tier 1:
- 
--Surviving the Wasteland: Given about half a day of walking and scavenging, you find enough edible food and potable water
--in the ruins or surrounding wasteland for you and up to one other person for one day. The resources might be scavenged
--from before‑times supplies, living flora and fauna, and uncontaminated water sources. Enabler.
-+Surviving the Wasteland
- 
--Tolerance: This hard life has built up your resistance over time, so you are trained in resisting the effects of natural
--poisons (such as those from plants or living creatures) and radiation. You're also immune to natural diseases. Enabler.
-+Tolerance
- 
--Weapon at Hand: You're practiced with all weapons. To gain this benefit with a weapon you've never used before, you must
--spend at least ten minutes practicing with it first. Enabler.
-+Weapon at Hand
- 
- Tier 2:
- 
- Devoted Defender
- 
--Hardened by the End: You're trained in Might defense tasks.
-+Hardened by the End
- 
- Tier 3:
- 
-@@ -39718,7 +39759,7 @@
- 
- Rapid Attack
- 
--Apocalyptic Stare: Your demeanor is of someone who shouldn't be trifled with. You are trained in intimidation. Enabler.
-+Apocalyptic Stare
- 
- Tier 4:
- 
-@@ -39736,13 +39777,7 @@
- 
- Using What's Available
- 
--Wasteland Camouflage (5+ Speed or Intellect points): By drawing your clothing about you just so and using various tricks
--and your deep knowledge of your surroundings, you become invisible for ten minutes in any landscape that contains ruins
--of the before‑times. (You may also attempt this in a purely wilderness setting, but if you do, you must spend 1
--additional point from Speed or Intellect, whichever Pool you activated this power with.) While you are invisible, this
--asset eases your stealth and Speed defense tasks by two steps. This effect ends if you do something to reveal your
--presence or position—attacking, using an ability, moving a large object, and so on. If this occurs, you can regain the
--remaining invisibility effect by taking an action to focus on hiding your position. Action to initiate or reinitiate.
-+Wasteland Camouflage
- 
- ### Historical
- 

patches/base/043-more-organization-through-historical.patch

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-+++ _tmp/ccsrd.new.md	2025-06-04 07:27:21.454728657 -0500
-@@ -39500,7 +39500,7 @@
- 
- Merges Mind With Machine is a focus designed for use with the Radio Quiet setting.
- 
--Prepped for the End
-+##### Prepped for the End
- 
- You prepared for ultimate disaster, unlike most of the sheeple. Which means you stashed away food, water, and other
- survival gear when things were still okay. You trained yourself for harsh conditions, for basic machine and electronic
-@@ -39568,7 +39568,7 @@
- 
- Escape the Ruins
- 
--Raids
-+##### Raids
- 
- When civilization fell, you did what you had to do to stay alive. Did you kill innocent people? Probably, insofar as
- anyone who survived the end can really be considered "innocent." You figured they'd have done the same to you. But
-@@ -39633,7 +39633,7 @@
- 
- Twisting the Knife
- 
--Remembers the Past
-+##### Remembers the Past
- 
- You are a student of the before‑times. Maybe that's because you grew up in the ruins of an old library and read
- everything as your hobby, you found a friendly AI archivist who taught you about how things once were, you're long‑lived
-@@ -39699,7 +39699,7 @@
- 
- Use the Network
- 
--Walks the Wasteland
-+##### Walks the Wasteland
- 
- Most people want to hide from the devastation or just curl up and die rather than face a hostile world. Not you. You're
- determined to see what's out there, to survive, and, more than that, to thrive. It's that or let the radioactive rats—or
-@@ -39785,7 +39785,7 @@
- ancient Greece or feudal Japan, for example, probably makes it more like fantasy without all the orcs and magic
- (although a game set in feudal Japan with orcs and magic could be fascinating).
- 
--### SUGGESTED TYPES FOR A HISTORICAL GAME
-+#### SUGGESTED TYPES FOR A HISTORICAL GAME
- 
- |                               |                                                                     |
- |-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
-@@ -39802,7 +39802,7 @@
- | Explorer                      | Explorer                                                            |
- | Priest                        | Speaker                                                             |
- 
--Basic CREATURES AND NPCs FOR A HISTORICAL GAME
-+#### Basic CREATURES AND NPCs FOR A HISTORICAL GAME
- 
- Cat: level 1, Speed defense as level 3
- 
-@@ -39827,7 +39827,7 @@
- 
- Warhorse: level 4; moves a long distance each round
- 
--creating a historical adventure
-+#### creating a historical adventure
- 
- One of the draws of playing in a historical adventure is the thrill of "being there" when something important happens.
- Thus, in many cases, historical adventures in RPGs shouldn't be designed as campaigns, but instead serve as short-term
-@@ -39865,7 +39865,7 @@
- a skewed version of events and culture. Be willing to go deeper than *Braveheart* or *The Last Samurai*, or maybe choose
- a different genre.
- 
--### RUNNING A HISTORICAL GAME
-+#### RUNNING A HISTORICAL GAME
- 
- Preparation is important in a historical game, and most of that entails choosing a historical period—or a specific
- historical event—as the setting. Given that all of history can serve, you won't lack for resources. Below are a few
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- prehistory, classical antiquity, ancient Egypt, the American revolution, ancient China, World War II, Edo Period Japan,
- Medieval Europe, and the American Old West.
- 
--### HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS
-+#### HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS
- 
- The concept of artifacts is probably inappropriate for a historical setting without some kind of supernatural,
- fantastical, or science fiction element. That said, objects of mystery such as the Antikythera mechanism (an ancient