I have just got the Fate's Screen pdf and have a couple of issues / questions about its content.
1) In the Miracles and Terror panel I was expecting to find all the cost factor tables (i.e. Scale, Duration, Location, Inclination & Domain) as well as the base cost tables, however these were missing. Why were such crucial tables missing?
2) In the same panel the rules for determining terror gained are not summarised, though the multiplier table is shown (and even the rules for Genocide). It could do with a few words that simply state:
"To gain Terror, cast a frightening Miracle and declare that you consume the Terror it creates (teh GM may determine you get terror even if you don't specify that you consume the Terror). Roll a d6 and multiply it by a number based on the Miracle’s scale, as shown on the table. That’s how much Terror you get. If you draw this Terror from people who worship another god, that god loses a like amount of Belief."
3) The Celestial Realms panel seems to summarise rules specific to the new Celestial Gardens book - unfortunately as I don't own this book it made little sense. I perhaps would have liked the screen to have contained a Top 10 things to know about the setting e.g. cotinent names, races, other gods, celestial realm names etc.
4) In the Conflict and Belief panel I was surprised that a summary of how to determine the number of enemy tokens affected when you win a conflict, i.e. the bit from NGH p77 that states:
"If [the conflict] was trying to affect the other side’s resources (by killing them, converting them, entrapping them, and so on), it succeeds to a degree. The winning side destroys (or otherwise affects) a number of the opponent’s tokens equal to the number of dice it rolled that scored higher than the opponent’s high number."I would have expected such a phrase to be inserted between "The side with the highest high number wins." and "The losing player chooses which tokens are affected."
Sorry if this sounds overly critical but I have at least tried to provide constructive criticism - has the screen made it to the printers yet? If not any chance of a few changes?
Overall it is a nice screen and as it is PDF I can print off the Miracles Worksheet from NGH and use that in place of the Celestial Realms panel for now..