Fair, I can see that being hard to work past. Maybe, as a favour to me, next time you play try replacing Finding a Surplus’ text with:
“When you Zoom Out after your character did something useful to your family, gain an appropriate Surplus or lose an appropriate Need.”

Mark Diaz Truman that’d be cool! I’m really hoping that it’ll be financially feasible to travel across the pond to Metatopia/Origins/Pax Unplugged/Gen Con/whatever one of these days. Unless Magpie wants to visit one of our European conventions 😀