By the way, sorry for not getting back to you with comments. My head has been squiffy the last few months.

..but if chracter gen is dragging – is it possible to take a leaf from Spirt of the century. Allow people to have a concept – get some key stuff down – but then just allow them to add other stuff when it becomes useful……

However once I’m done with Monkey, I will be in the market for a Narrative style system and PDQ is being considered (along with Graham Spearing’s Wordplay, Mike Homles and co’s Otherworlds and as an outside shot Fate3 when it finally emerges).

This is probably not very helpful at this point, to put it mildly, but it’s sounding to me like the game could work pretty well under PDQ, perhaps especially that from Zorcerer of Zo. *If* you ever want to explore that as a version I expect Chad would be very interested.