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Why Backgrounds

The Background of Backgrounds Feng Shui 2nd Edition (I don't know if the same applies to Feng Shui 1st ed) has this brilliant point that your skills don't just represent what you can do. They represent your area of knowledge, your contacts, and the whole range of your character's experience and knowledge. For example, if have some sort of sword fighting as a skill (sorry, I don't remember the exact skill names), you'll know how to fight with swords, how to identify swords, you'll be familiar with prominent and historical sword masters, and you'll know the people that trained you or trained with you. The resistance system (Spire: The City Must Fall & Heart: The City Beneath) has something a bit similar. In a way it is more general, but it is more nuanced in how it provides your bonus.. In this system, you have Domains. When a person, place, or thing is related to one of your Domains, you add a die to your pool. For example, if I have the Domain Academia, ...
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Welcome to the Ætherlayer

 What is the  Æ therlayer? The  Æ therlayer is the mass entanglement of emitted frequencies and energies that blankets the world. The currents and frequencies are referred to as  Æther. Special optical enhancers enable the user to see an overlay of this layer over real space. The technology most often represents the  Æ theric currents as a cyan hued fog. The fog seems to flow along the currents in the direction of the emitted frequencies. Data packages can be seen as motes of sparkling dust riding upon the currents. Entities that emit frequencies seem to glow. The brightness is relative to how much energy they are emitting. Why is it important? The  Ætherlayer is of great importance to modern humanity. First, it enables long distance communication, as well as, highspeed data transfer. Second, it serves as a repository. It is possible to submit a holding frequency that will float within the Ætherlayer until it is dispersed by a unlocking code. Finally, the f...
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