Abridged and expanded rules comparison¶
The supplied abridged and full references are two profiles of the same rules
generation. Public source identifiers are abridged-2004 and full-2008; printing
details appear in provenance. A broader catalogue does not imply
that the underlying resolution system was replaced.
| Area | Shared mechanics | Full-reference additions or differences | Interim support |
|---|---|---|---|
| Character accounting | Purchased attributes, traits and skills | Independent secondary purchases and wider construction choices | Secondary purchases and owned feature contributions |
| Skills | Attribute-relative trained levels and defaults | Very-hard difficulty, richer defaults, specialties, prerequisites and techniques | Authored definitions and explicit supported procedures; no full catalogue |
| Traits | Signed point costs and existing trait effects | Wider catalogue, modifiers and self-control pricing | Price specifications plus existing Lite effects; no generic effect engine |
| Templates | Character purchases remain accountable | Occupational composition and ancestry packages | Occupational templates and choices; ancestry pending |
| Reputation | Recognition and reactions depend on context | Faceted audiences, recognition frequencies and richer modifiers | Owned reputation, retained recognition and source pricing |
| Social interaction | Reaction rolls and authored NPC decisions | Expanded decision tables, information and trade procedures | Private reactions, structured decisions, information delivery and loyalty |
| Fear | A Will-based check can precede consequences | Full-reference failed fear resolution uses its own consequence table | Existing abridged behavior; expanded consequences not supplied |
| Critical combat outcomes | Critical success/failure categories | The full reference supplies additional outcome tables | No expanded combat implementation in this branch |
The last two rows describe different procedures, not merely additional options. Including character/social modules does not silently replace the abridged fear or combat procedures. Expanded world, health, tactical, supernatural and technology systems belong to the separate full-suite project.
The library catalogue lists every shipped include and its dependencies. The integration guide identifies the interim boundaries. The implementation remains an experimental subset; this comparison is not a complete source-to-test coverage claim.