Mark Delsing I’m thinking through that now!

I feel like a Hope/Shadow gap = Heart (depends on the character) would be about right. So either lower hope or raise shadow or whatever. The simple answer that doesn’t require/allow any gaming of my hope-for-skills tradeoff I mentioned above is just to work out the baseline Shadow (per the questioning, where each answer grants someone Shadow), then just add + Heart to whatever that ended up being (up to max Hope, can’t imagine it could possibly get that high).

I also like the idea of jamming a Fellowship phase into a long con format (3 sesh), and the players will reliably choose “get rid of this fucking Shadow” for at least one of their actions, so you’d want to account for that too.