These are changes that have been made in the light of comments and play-testing. I am trying to keep these to a minimum but it's hard to get it right first time.
| Version | Card | Change | Commentary |
| 1.1 | Abysmal Daughter | add "which affect cards in play". | This is to align her text with that of The Prof. |
| 1.1 | Chimp Shack | add "opponent's" | See the flavour text - the idea is to copy the enemy's modus operandi, not your own. |
| 1.1 | Jimmy Wai | add "Or turn to turn a card which turns and maintains and choose any legal target." | He won't take no for an answer. |
| 1.1 | Nine Cuts | add "May not be sacrificed." | He's the one doing the cutting, not the Vivisectors… |
| 1.1 | Poison Needles | replace "is turned" by "turns". | So that the toasting only happens when a card is newly turned - the intended effect. |
| 1.1 | Tanbi Guiawu | replace "an opponent controls 5 or more" with "your opponents control 10 or more". | A better effect for the multi-player game - how will the safe level of characters be shared out? |
| 1.2 | Desire Manipulator | replace "you" with "a card that you control". Add "It breaks off the attack if forced to do so." | To allow for Fox Pass, Tortured Memories etc. |
| 1.2 | Encephalon Screamer | add "Other". | So that it does not kiil itself when it attacks. |
| 1.2 | Gearhead | Add "Tactics". | She was given Mobility because her art indicates she is immune to the Illusory Bridge. But she needs an offensive boost too and Tactics will allow for more probing attacks. |
| 1.2 | Power of the Great | Add "that you control" | Should not allow you to turn other players' Masterminds too. |
| 1.2 | Safehouse | Add "unless it is attacking." | Leave the Safehouse and you're fair game. |
| 1.2 | Silver Band | Replace "All Silver cards gain +1 Fighting for each other Silver card in play." with "If there is another Silver card in play, all Silver cards gain +1 Fighting." | The first draft was better than intended - Silver Bands' fighting progressed 5, 7, 11, 17. Now it is more restrained: 5, 7, 8, 9… |
| 1.3 | Arcanoworms | Clarify adjacency between players. | Those worms get everywhere! |
| 1.3 | Nine Cuts | Replace "once per turn" with "once during that player's turn". Add much commentary. | The intention was always that he could only be brought into play during the hiring player's turn. This has been made clearer. Other timing issues have been clarified. |
| 1.4 | New Manifesto | Replace "draw an equal number of cards from your deck" with "draw cards from your deck - up to one less than the number discarded". | Without this, New Manifesto has very little opportunity cost and Jammer players would put 5 in every deck. Also, this is more consistent with the "90%" in the flavour text. |
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| 1.4 | Water Sword | Add "when it is returned to your hand". | If there is no opportunity cost then you would put 5 in every deck. |
| 1.4 | Arcanostriker | Add "Subject character gains" | To make the wording consistent with other states. |
| 1.5 | Gorilla Warfare | Add "If the site cannot be burned, then it is smoked instead." | To clarify what happens with Turtle Island and the like. |
| 1.5 | New Manifesto | Reword as "After discarding, you may draw up to X cards from your deck where X is the number of cards discarded." | Reworded for clarity. |
| 1.5 | Illusory Bridge | Add "its owner may turn it to " and "Ghosts, Spirits,". | Turning for effect makes the operation of the Bridge clearer. Ghosts and Spirits covers many characters who ought to be immune to it - they fly or are insubstantial. |
| 1.5 | Ice Falcons | Deleted from RetroFist. | Its RetroFist restriction violated the rule "accentuate the positive." As it now has protection from the Illusory Bridge because it is a Spirit, the RetroFist addition is no longer needed. |
| 1.6 | Tanbi Guiawu | Add "At the start of your turn," and "May not be sacrificed." | The start of turn clause makes the card operate in a consistent way with the Destroyer and Mooks. The sacrifice clause prevents Vivisector abuse. |
Last Updated on 29 June 1998 by Andrew S. Davidson
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