Hi,

I've been enjoying reading Fantasy Express and there are many things I like about it. However, I've always had problems with weaknesses / flaws as "bonus points". Some players try to min/max them to make absurd characters and GM needs to remember to apply them. What if they worked more like passions? You get something out of them (Drive maybe) when they actually complicate the character's life or when they make the adventure more interesting. This way it's harder to game them and players are themselves incentivized to remember them and bring them up. This might also have the bonus of giving characters that have gained weaknesses like crippled a "consolation prize". What do you ppl think?

... my fear is that it creates a fantastic level one character but doesn't really much help progress or advance the character further once past character creation for non-magic characters.

Like... I get it, everyone accrues skills. Magic users accrue spells as levels are gained. But martial type characters have only Milestones to spend on Revelations, correct? (and Milestones are a very GM-centric mechanic - the players are waiting for the GM to indicate when they can take a Revelation) Anything on that list of Special Skills can't be bought past level one? (On pg 55 of current document, it says that Milestones _can_ be spent on buying SS but pg 80 only indicates that Milestones can be spent on Revelations.)

I totally get that this isn't Pathfinder 2e or something with endless Feat and Ability gains... and I don't want that. I guess I'm just worried that simply building more skills won't be interesting enough for players to further differentiate their characters as progression continues in long-term play.

Maybe I'm misreading things or don't understand some fundamental progression mechanic, please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks.

P.S. I still love the game.

uploaded the Quickstart - In Search of Jarfry to DrivethruRPG this morning.

I am starting work on converting  The Tomb of Aosath Bak to get it uploaded.

Then will be starting work on the next module,  "The Wizard's Apprentice" (wizard comes into posession of a cursed book, which possesses hi apprentice - severely injuring the Wizard just after the group arrives in town. They then git hired by the Wizard and an elderly priest to go stop the apprentice (preferably saving him in the process) from summoning an unknown number of demons to Anwyn...

Ooooh. I thought they could only be done with Martial Weapons. Sorry, still learning. Having lots of fun though.

Yup ANY weapon can be used with Martial Moves (though they may not be able to perform every move, depending upon the weapon - we leave it to the GM to determine what seems right - i.e. you cannot do a Shield Bash with a Quarterstaff....)

Martial Weapons simply gain a +4 when performing Martial Moves.