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 Experience has shown that there are a number of pitfalls that regularly plague new players of Demon: The Fallen, especially in the context of **Shadows over the South**. Following are a number of explanations and recommendations that are intended to help with these issues:
-  - **Ranks of Virtues bought with freebie points do not affect your Willpower.** If you wish to increase your Willpower beyond the four or five points you get from your regular allotment of Virtues, you have to do so directly. However, please note the general server rules regarding permanent Willpower scores over five.
+  - //Ranks of Virtues bought with freebie points do not affect your Willpower.// If you wish to increase your Willpower beyond the four or five points you get from your regular allotment of Virtues, you have to do so directly. However, please note the general server rules regarding permanent Willpower scores over five.
   - Since **SotS** uses (modified) Twentieth Anniversary Edition rules for combat, dodging is resolved as a Dexterity + Athletics roll. //The Dodge talent is therefore superfluous and can be ignored.//
   - The Religion knowledge ability has been replaced by the more general Belief Systems knowledge ability from M20. Please ask the Demon ST for the full text of the ability if you don't have access to the M20 core book.
-  - While most abilities receive a specialisation at four dots, there are some exceptions: **Art, Crafts, Performance,** and **Belief Systems** receive a specialisation at the first dot. **Academics** and **Science** receive a specialisation at the second dot.
   - **SotS** does not utilise the Linguistics knowledge ability. Instead additional languages are gained by purchasing the **Language** merit. The full text of the merit can be found on the [[setting:universal_merit|Universal Merits]] page.
-  - While it is not a requirement, it is strongly recommended that you take at least one dot of the **Pacts** background. While Reaping is an available option for Demons to gain Faith (see below), it is not recommended due to the fact that it involves intentionally revealing the existence of the supernatural to a regular human.
+  - In general, please note the modified ability lists used in this game. They can be found in full [[setting:general_system_house_rules#abilities|here.]]
+  - It is recommended that characters with medium to high incomes (Resources 3 or above) purchase at least one dot of the **Finance** ability. Without knowledge of financial matters the character can easily fall prey to scams or simply bad investments.
+  - Please make sure to familiarise yourself with our [[setting:lore_system|splat lore system]]. Since every character automatically receives a dot of their respective splat lore, demon characters receive one dot of **Occult** for free. Halaku characters can elect to receive a dot of Lore: Spirits instead. This dot is applied after step three of character creation, and //can// increase the rank of Occult beyond three dots.
+  - While it is not a requirement, it is strongly recommended that you take at least one dot of the **Pacts** background. While Reaping is an available option for Demons to gain Faith (see the Reaping Faith subpage for details), it is not recommended due to the fact that it involves intentionally revealing the existence of the supernatural to a regular human.
   - In the same vein it is highly recommended that you take at least one dot of the **Legacy** background. Without Legacy your character will not know (and cannot know) much about their condition as a Demon, and will thus come across as highly ignorant.

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