New character sheet, many fixes!


Hey there! I've got a big update for you today, and as a result I have decided to keep the attention-drawing japes to a minimum. The joy of reading real fixes should be more than enough for you.

  • Uploaded a fancier character sheet, which should look a lot nicer! The original is being kept as a "simple" printer-friendly version (including a form-fillable version by Colin Chapman)
  • During development I decided I should start using the term "unhoused" instead of "homeless", as the latter has derogatory uses. I never got around to fixing the times I'd already used it, though. It's fixed now. A couple instances of "homeless" have been kept where they'd make someone look like a jerk
  • Incredibly-minor-NPC-who-somehow-got-a-portrait-in-the-OST-booklet Aleph Asamiya's name has been changed to Aleph Acosta, as Aleph + a Japanese surname can make people think of a cult
  • During developmental editing I managed to insert the phrase "defence roll" instead of "defence" a few times out of habit. They're gone now
  • The Hacking actions have new names to avoid overlap with Social actions: Charm is Access, Interrogate is Search
  • Placate has been tweaked to make its limits clearer
  • The Stealth section now has a sidebar about using it in social situations
  • For consistency reasons, references to the Piloting Specialty have been replaced with the Drone Specialty
  • Made Drone defenses clearer: their Defenses are all 7, but they use their operator's Defenses if they're actively piloted
  • Changed how Memory Worm works, but not by much
  • Made it clearer that It's Complicated gives you a Specialty in one action of your choice on top of the usual two you get from an Origin
  • Various typo, formatting, page number reference fixes
  • Removed the "Miami Mike" Origin for further playtesting
  • My Mori Calliope CD came in. This isn't a patch note, I just want you to know what a great week I'm having
  • Added ten pages explaining all the Australia references, because nobody noticed that I slipped in a joke about a mid-2000s-era meme in the Australian gaming magazine Hyper and it made me sad
  • Station workers can no longer be persuaded to walk out of an airlock by explaining your Dungeons & Dragons character to them, but they're definitely still thinking about it
  • For people who don't like K-pop, we made a second version of the game where Soyeong is bringing glam metal back
  • Fixed a bug where players shopping in Lunokhod could buy infinite oregano, instantly filling the station
  • Someone noticed that one of the NPCs is literally just an Arknights character, so I hid the evidence of my crimes
  • Removed the "Dad Joke" action because it was too powerful
  • Added Vancian casting
  • Miscellaneous wolfboys

Files

Hard Wired Island.pdf 35 MB
May 06, 2021
Hard Wired Island (low res).pdf 18 MB
May 06, 2021
Character Sheet.pdf 64 kB
May 06, 2021
Character Sheet (Simple).pdf 1 MB
May 06, 2021
Hard Wired Island - Character Sheet (Simple Fillable).pdf 1 MB
May 06, 2021

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Small quibble: Search is still called Interrogate in the Network Mood and Example Hack sections. Love the game so far!