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Improvement suggestion: Eliminate redundancies. While it is understandable to create a section for new players so they are not overwhelmed with all of the information, it is unproductive to have the same entries repeated over multiple pages all with slightly different information. This is extremely frustrating. My table has had multiple instances of 'I KNOW I saw that rule under XYZ heading' and then disputes occurring because we are reading under XYZ heading... but on different pages with different information. Instead keep your smaller, need-to-know guides and then make a link stating 'for full rules on XYZ, click here.'
Example: One of my players contracted zombie rot, a particularly lethal disease for low level, non-tank players even with the more generous stat distributions of 2nd ed. We were searching the rules to see if PCs can donate their downtime to treat illness of other PCs. Some of us ended up in 'Downtime' under Organized Play Basics while others ended up looking at 'Downtime' under Player basics. They have vastly different contents and the one links to the other... and neither mention dealing with afflictions which is actually under 'negative effects', it's own unique heading found only in the Player Basics' guide... but NOT the 'negative effects' header that is found under pre-gen characters which you find first on the page... It also doesn't have any of the keywords one might use with Ctrl+F to quickly find it... like 'disease' or 'affliction' or 'curse'... beyond that the section outright lies. " Most of these negative effects can be cleared by spending Fame for the appropriate service on Table 2: All-Factions Boons. " is an untrue statement. There is a resurrection plan that is tier zero and costs 25 fame... and that's it. Ultimately a boon for disease seems unnecessary however, because it seems like it falls under the catch-most of the Society taking care of it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is get it together. Decide what verbiage you want to use and stick with it, consistently, across all your materials. Create more user friendly organization of reference material. Don't publish things which are not true, even if you intend them to be true in the future.