[quote=Jerkchicken]Interesting.My only concerns is just really the mechanics are rough which is expected of someone's first project along with the very sparse setting details and no spending 20 pages on the damn cosmology involving the ring and black ball doesn't count as relevant in the scheme of running the game.[/quote]

Yeah, it can be too much at times, especially for those without the books.

[quote=Jerkchicken]I'd like to personally try and use the game mechanics with a couple of tweaks.[/quote]

Okay. Having talked to Daniel, he actually cut out over 200 pages IIRC of extra rules or something and is supposedly working on additional supplements.

[quote=Jerkchicken]Namely discarding the silly appearance grid[/quote]

While interesting, it did seem kinda pointless as the player you'll decide that YOUR character looks like anyway.

[quote=Jerkchicken]simplifying the emotions grid to set of rolls at different difficulties to induce the buff/debuff dice they bring or possibly ignoring that.[/quote]

Okay, I'll get my books out tomorrow and we can maybe go into more detail?

[quote=Jerkchicken]The impulse thing is fine if a bit overloaded[/quote]

Agreed. It HAS TO be fun, and if we're fiddling with books and arguing the toss, it ceases to be that, for me anyway. It isn't so bad if we all knew each other personally, and were around a table, meaning we can discuss things or interpretations of rules. As i said start with extremely basic mechanics to begin with, and if need be dd more complexity, but I hope we don't feel the need for that.

[quote=Jerkchicken]For vehicles I'd like something more simplified than the manner involving money as the costs get stupidly big in numbers/expense which gets in the way of having your personal artifact vehicle aka Sharii Velestia or vehicle.[/quote]

I honestly never read the vehicle thing in that much depth. But yeah I can see the need to simplify it.

[quote=Jerkchicken]Char gen for PC's could also be simplified by saying you get x amount of dots in skills and traits to distribute but the XP thing isn't as bad as the vehicle making part.[/quote]

Actually there was a simplified version actually.

Chargen: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_gHUN_sT6jqMHdaZFl1dmVmSVU/edit

Just download and you can expand it so that it is easier to read.

Forum: http://essencerpg.moreforum.com/

[quote=Jerkchicken]Also I could totally help with the rules too[/quote]

Feel free.
As far as I'm concerned, the more the merrier with that :rock