The Battle Century Errata, Troubleshooting & Balance Changes Documents

Monsterpunk is on the horizon, but before I fully reveal it to the world I want to do one last thing for BCG. That's these three documents here:

Errata

This is the most important document and the one that will could get integrated into the books proper. Most of it are fixes editorial mistakes, clarifying complex rules text or rewrites to rules that just plain didn't work properly. There are a couple of mechanical changes, but they're the kind that address multiple issues with the game rather than being pure balance changes. It saves me time to change a general rule as errata here instead of adding a bunch of balance change suggestions in its place for the documents below.

Troubleshooting

This section is too large to add it to the books, so it's going to stay as a google document. As the name says, it is basically a FAQ, mostly involving quirky rules interactions. Most of the questions come from the comments section and the discord server. Some of the answers may contradict things I've said in the past, and if they do, you should consider what is in this document to be my final word on the subject.

Balance Changes

Last, but not least, a bunch of suggestions to improve your BCG + BCZ experience. They're just that, though, suggestions. Most of them are strict improvements to the rules, but if there's something you don't like in them, you can just pick and choose what to use what to leave in there. Want to nerf Absolute Barrier but don't want to cap Tension? Cool, that's why this is a google doc of suggestions only.

And now a quick FAQ:

Are you going to make more content for BCG?
No. Consider these documents a parting gift to the game, at least until I decide it is time to rebuild the whole system for a second edition.

What if the errata needs its own errata?
The documents are open to comments, so if you spot a typo, are confused about a ruling or have a suggestion about a balance change, leave it there.

So you will be updating these documents?
I'll probably do a round of typo fixes later at the least and continue to answer more questions for eternity. Mmmaybe I'll add some additional suggestions or tweak existing ones later, but no promises there. If I do it, don't expect it to be a regular thing.

I found another typo, can you add it to the errata doc?
Leave it in the errata document as a comment somewhere and I will get to it eventually.

When can we expect the PDFs to be errataed?
Probably by the end of the year. I want this to be the last errata update, so I'll wait to make sure that we won't need future errata fixes.

That's it! I may do the rest of BCZ as a Retrospective at some point, but the next thing I want to talk about is my new game. With any luck, the next post will be about Monsterpunk's open beta.

Until then!

Gimmick Out.