Category: Night Witches

Handouts & doubts & typos

Pages from the complete, 46-pages file.

Typos

Pag. 13: In Missions, there is a “Spewcial” and a “duty station. veryone”.

Pag. 17: In Honors, it’s not said the medal doesn’t increase +medals, while in all the other it’s said.

Pag. 21: In Mission A, I guess the part “All consequences are increased by one during this mission” should be red.

Pag. 25: I guess “Wingman move” should be “Vedomaya move”.

Pag. 31: I guess “Support” should be “Vedomaya”.

Pag. 40: “after the debrEIf” (inverted letters).

Pag. 40: “choose an initial GM” seems to imply the training duty station is played without a GM.

Pag. 44: “in the form of Captain barsukova” (missing capital letters).

Doubts

Pag. 18: “Adequate supplies: +0 to all Scrounge and Repair rolls.”

There is some difference between this and pag. 20, “There are no special supply rules for Peresyp’”?

Pag. 36 & 38: “As Senior Lieutenant Petrova, ask each player one question” & “As Captain Barsukova, ask each player one question”.

Questions like “What did you lie about on your regimental intake form?” and “Why does the NKVD already have a file on you, and how did you get around that black mark to join the regiment?” seems more like questions done by GM, than an NPC; the second, asked by an NKVD official, sounds almost like a request for auto-impeachment O_o

Pag. 41: “We’ll be pilots, navigators, mechanics and political oficers”.

Players characters can help mechanics, but can they also be mechanics, as an official role? O_o

One thing I’d have loved to see in the rules are examples from real women: what was their life in the base? what was like being caught being a lesbian? what was like having to scrounge for parts? But with real examples from history.

The same for Natures and Roles: there was a woman from the 588th who was a Hawk? What was she like? And a Protector?

If you know Grey Ranks, I’m thinking about the sidebars with grey ranks’ stories: I always use them when presenting the game, because I can spend ten minutes trying to explain what the Thing Held Dear is and what does it mean lose it, or I can just read Anna’s story.

Jason Morningstar, could you share some stories like those? A Hawk, a Sparrow, some good moment, someone who paid just for being herself, things like those?

A question about flying and navigating (quoting from the rules): “In an emergency, anyone can fly and anyone can navigate, both from either seat, but making a Move outside your assigned position requires a change in the fiction first”.

I was wondering, which change in the fiction? I’m not very clear about what, in reality, means trying to fly or navigate from the wrong seat, so I’m not sure about these changes. Any examples?