Hi everyone - checking in again. Ran a test session with my core group here in Longmont - me as GM, had three players (I tweeted an outline of the group's progress). All in all our impressions of it were pretty solid. The only thing that generated confusion in the first session is the opposed roll mechanic - I see in the linked thread and elsewhere that this mechanic generated confusion. Since so many people have gone into it I'm gonna have to dig a bit to see what I think I'll go with long term. My immediate impulse was to just to decrease Attacker MoS by Defender MoS. I don't like the all or nothing mechanic. Weird situations like "You got everything out of the way.... except your head" seem to be covered by the critical mechanic. I like the idea that you can make yourself difficult to hit, maybe keeping a sideways profile and leading with your shoulder, so that you get hit in the arm instead of the face, and I think Fray should cover these sort of combat composure possibilities. I really like the system though. The char gen process is admittedly a bit complex - I think allowing people to re-tweak chars through the first 3-4 sessions is going to be an ongoing thing. The frequently rec'd spreadsheets really simplify the process, though, and I think you get a lot of bang for your buck - chars have to have meaningful backgrounds and skillsets - so anyone who gets through the char-gen process has a character that's roleplay ready, not just mechanics ready. Combat was very slow at first, but by the end of the first combat session, things were going super quick. I feel pretty confident that I can keep combat pace. I also limited the mechanic exposure to my core group - this is basically a combat / intrusion sort of mission (it's actually not too far off Glory - which was entirely an accident, as I hadn't even looked at the copy of Glory that came with my GM screen until after writing my adventure notes. Guess it was just an obvious sort of scenario!) - and I left space flight and more specific hacking stuff to an NPC, where it follows story bullet points, not rolls. All in all, I'm very impressed with the setting and its possibilities. I'll probably open up the core group and try to recruit some other players from here in early September (moving, business trip, and I'd like 2 more games or so with the core group to get confident with the rules to keep a satisfying pace). One thing I'm interested in doing is filming a session or parts of a session and posting it to YouTube. So, if you might be interested in participating in something like that specifically, let me know. I purchased the "Ego Hunter" module a little while back, and that or something homebrew will probably be my choice if I go through with this.