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I just wanted to pop in and check on the progress of the housekeeping and/or the character creation system.

I probably wouldn't buy an errata deck. I'm already stretching to afford this game (don't get me wrong, it's worth it, but that doesn't change my financial situation). I'm perfectly capable of remembering the errata from the faq and I don't really have a problem relating that information to newcomers. As you say, Vic, most of the changes have no effect on gameplay. I just can't justify the cost for the handful of cards that are affected.

I don't sleeve my cards but I would happily accept the PDF solution. It's not that I would print them out, it's that a PDF would provide a superior visual reference to errata than a simple faq. But that's such a minor thing that I'm not certain it's worth the effort on your end, using the valuable time of those three employees. But if your determined to see it through, I will tell you that I'd very likely be willing to pitch in a dollar for the PDF, to help recoup the costs in man hours.

As an additional thought, I'd probably prefer seeing a PDF because they are easily alterable. As you say, there will *always* be errata. You might need to errata the errata. Then you'd have to wait for those subsequent changes to stack up and create another deck to fix the first one. That's a lot of trouble, both for you and us, to go through for something so intensely minor.

But that's just the way I see it. Most of the folks I talk to would prefer to pay out to have their cards *just so*. So probably both is the best option, based on my very, very, limited understanding.

I apologize if this has been cleared up already, but I figured I would ask since I can only find bits and pieces.

The rulebook gives us a sidebar that tells us the stripped down mechanics of how to build our own characters. Boxes and numbers only, though. A clear issue comes about when trying to determine powers and balancing them with the existing characters. Now, I'm a roleplayer (I also enjoy design) and so my instinct is just to muck about with creating my own powers from scratch and playtesting the crap out of them. But a few of the people I play this game with are better described as board or card gamers. There will also be some people I play with who are new-ish to games in general. They might prefer the comfort of an official system.

I read somewhere, here or at bgg I'm sure, Mr. Selinker saying in August he was going to work on some kind of character creator or creation thread here in about a month. Is that still in the works? Or did I just skip over it?

I also read that these rules weren't included in the base game because the designers wanted to see how the fans might go about creation first and to judge whether there was significant interest in doing so. Which is totally understandable. I just wondered if that data had been gathered and if any such rules were forthcoming. And if so, when.