I'm loving Age of Ambition. I have a couple quick questions about character creation:

1.) If a People provide a trait like Night Vision, which has a requirement of Per-5, does the character get that trait even if they don't meet the requirement? If they don't pick up the trait, do they get experiences?

2.) During a sample character generation, I picked up Night Vision on the Birth Fortune table *and* as training from being a laborer. Does the second one just convert to experiences or is it ignored?

Thanks in advance!

Happy to hear that you're enjoying the game! To answer your questions:

1) If the character's People gives a trait like Night Vision, then they don't need to meet the stat requirement, they just get the trait.

2) That's right. If they would get the trait a second time, it instead converts to experiences.

Good gaming!

Thanks! I've yet to find anything I don't like, system or setting-wise. I'll be going all-in on your pdf/print combos over at DriveThru.

AoA is far and away the most interesting RPG I've run across in the last several years. I had no idea it even existed until I stumbled upon a recent thread at RPG.net you started about retrocloning the old Saga system from TSR. I think I had that back in the 90s. Is the Saga Machine engine based on the old SAGA system? Or is it one of your own design?

While Beholdsa can give you a more detailed answer about all the specific influences that have gone into Saga Machine, it stemmed from a homebrew system we made while in high school. It has changed a lot since then but the setting in AoA, Trystell, was our original setting that we started working on as 9th graders.

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Thanks! I've yet to find anything I don't like, system or setting-wise. I'll be going all-in on your pdf/print combos over at DriveThru. AoA is far and away the most interesting RPG I've run across in the last several years. I had no idea it even existed until I stumbled upon a recent thread at RPG.net you started about retrocloning the old Saga system from TSR. I think I had that back in the 90s. Is the Saga Machine engine based on the old SAGA system? Or is it one of your own design?

Thanks for checking out our game!

Saga Machine - and my gaming in general - has been heavily influenced by the old SAGA system. It's one of the first RPGs I played a ton and it holds a special place for me.