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admin [Starting your character]
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     - Create a new "home" for your character and the setting (country, space station, island, city, planet, alternate dimension, etc)
     - Create a new "faction" for your character and the setting (political, military, religious, academic/scholarly, criminal, terrorist group, etc).   You may or may not still be aligned with this faction.
-  - Fill out your Concept
+  - Fill out your Concept:
-  - Choose your Skills.  Start with +2, +1, 0, -1, -2
+    - include a single strength And weakness.
+    - You have an additional strength/weakness that you may "Reveal" at any time.
+  - Choose your Skills.  Assign:
+    - +2, +1, 0, -1, -2
+    - or +1, 0, 0, -1
   - Notable equipment.  Discuss if you should own or have access to any notable (uncommon) equipment.
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 Three cases when deciding if your character has an item/weapon/knowledge/contact/resource/skill
-  - It makes a reasonable amount of sense, you have it.
+  - It aligns reasonably with your concept: you have it.
-  - If is a stretch.  Either you don't have it or it comes with some cost.  E.g. -1 to your roll, it's not quite what you need, strings attached, extra cost, etc.
+  - It is counter to your concept: you don't have it or cannot perform that particular action.
-  - It is counter to your concept.  You don't have it or cannot perform that particular action.
+  - It is a stretch:  It comes with some cost.  E.g. -1 to your roll, it's not quite what you need, strings attached, extra cost, etc.
 ==== Strengths and weaknesses ====
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 ===== Skills =====
 Actions in this game typically rely on one of the following skills:
-  * Education - Formal education.  University training, literacy, trade school, etiquette, etc.
+  * <del>Education - Formal education.  University training, literacy, trade school, etiquette, etc.
-  * Experience - Training by hard knocks.  Life on the streets, three years in the trenches, intuition, etc.
+  * Experience - Training by hard knocks.  Life on the streets, three years in the trenches, intuition, etc.</del>
+  * Knowledge - Education, literacy, experience, life on the streets
   * Grit - Focus, discipline, determination, mental flexibility, attitude, etc.
   * Athleticism - Your physical abilities.  Fitness, strength, reaction time, and stamina.
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   * logistics - cargo, supplies, resource management
   * mission specialists - scientists, diplomats
+====== Setting expectations ======
+At the beginning of the first session, address the following:
+  * High or low-pulp.
+    * Lethality,
+    * amount of realism,
+    * amount of silliness,
+    * your ability to strongly influence the world
+  * Setting : Sci-fi, fantasy, etc.
+    * Soft/hardness of setting.  (Hard/soft sci-fi,  Magic is rare or commonplace in a fantasy, etc.)
+    * specific technologies/magics (FTL is possible/impossible, etc)
+  *

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