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Would these duelling rules preclude the speed stat? Sort of a 'gentleman's agreement' that you each only draw and fire once, and even then only when it seems like the other guy is ready? Because otherwise, people with a higher speed stat would seem likely to win almost every time. Or is that expected?

Even if the book itself was cancelled, is there anyone who has a full write-up of characters from the era, such as Sherlock Holmes, Dr Jekyll, and Dr Van Helsing?

Regardless of the actual book surfacing or not, is there any chance of getting any sort of character builds or write-ups of any of the Public Domain characters from the Victorian era from anyone? Surbrook? 

Abraham Van Helsing?

Dr Jekyll?

Sherlock Holmes?

I always love seeing the classic Victorian literary characters of the public domain get a modern-made, era-appropriate crossover story. And to have it be the classic monster stories of the late Victorian is even better.

To make Marco Polo's story a more typical Hero's Journey, while keeping it following the actual story, I think you would need to have the plot follow a kind of 'hidden' series of events occurring alongside the official 'known' events.

This is why you have an army of the undead. Or robots. Or, the best of both worlds, cyborgs composed of dead people mixed with cybernetics!

Beatlegeusemania - A large number of young adults become obsessed with music performed by four pale, mouldy, clown-like ghosts.