SUM and GUM updated!

JeansenVaars March 9, 2025March 9, 20250

The main booklets of SUM and GUM have been updated! Why?

To make their purposes clearer than ever
To improve their explanations and how they work together
To boost their clarity and grammar thanks to the proof-editing of Kelly Wardle

SUM v8.0: What’s new?

Design exploration based scenes:
- Location features
- Core challenge
- Challenge circumstances
Design combat based scenes:
- Terrain features
- Enemy tactics
- Enemy composition
Flesh out investigation scenes:
- Type of clue
- Revealing finding
- Opposition activity

These were originally located in GUM, but were rewritten from scratch, and ported to SUM where they make much more sense in terms of Scene Unfolding capabilities. Character archetypes have been moved to GUM. This way, GUM takes care of creating things, where SUM brings them to life.

GUM v2.2: What’s new?

Character generators have been expanded with the following:

Create a character by their edge
Create a character by their flaw
Create a character by their main weapon
Create a character by their past and childhood
Quick character archetypes (brought in from SUM)

Faction generators have also been expanded with:

Create a faction by its Society
Create a faction by its Beliefs
Create a faction by its Political System

With this, your Faction world building will be upgraded with infinite amount of combinations! These changes lead to specialize GUM further in Game Preparation and World Building, leaving SUM take care of Scene Development and in-game matters.