Character Creation and House Rules

Updated my 2nd post a bit (the one with all the house rules) as it occurred to me it needed a few additional precisions...

Well, somebody will have to speak Valornish so you can communicate with Korghar. The good news is Gilcyne still has 2 extra language slots to fill...

Edit: speaking or Korghar, you have 2 abilities to select as Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary. You get all six.
Edit 2: ...and Trendek should have a 2nd Secondary ability, which by the looks of things will be Knack...

The equipment list is really lacking. Whoever was supposed to check the text and content didn't do a very good job of it. For instant, in the paragraph where they're explaining how to count Things, the example is carrying a whetstone. Whetstone is not in the equipment list.

There are two different types of rations on the list, but nothing to carry water. No canteen. No waterskin.

There are no rules, I can find anyway, of how many Things a mount can carry or a way for them to carry it. I bought two backpacks, put them together and called it saddlebags.

There are no listings for saddles or horse gear, although there are images in the book of horses with these on.

Not to mention the strange listing of items with no explanations of what they are. Like - Balafon, Ngoni, and Kora. And...there's demon summoning paraphernalia, but what's in it? Does it give a bonus to summoning or binding?

I agree about the seeming lack of what I might consider obvious items. I also am not a fan of the random weapon pricing, but feel our GM made good calls.

As for the summoning paraphernalia, I imagine it is intended to be like spell component pouch in 5e. It just has all the random things you need, like candles and goats blood to do the thing. You are probably just expected to buy more from time to time. I would prefer a system like Powered by the Apocalypse where items like that have "uses" and get checked off as you go. So like that item might start with 5 uses and each summoning consums one use. Just so it feels like it matters if you have it.

Balafon, Ngoni, and Kora are musical instruments and those are described in the Griot class (probably not the best place for such descriptions). The demon summoning paraphernalia is probably described in the demon summoning section.

Rations, trail are probably nuts, fruits, and berries, while rations, dried are, well... dried food...

Ad for missing essentials, well try to find the nearest equivalent. your idea of two backpacks for a saddlebag was a good one. For a saddle, tack, and bridle, for example, le't say something where you sit (or lie down) like a bedroll, and something to tie it all up, like silk rope.

As long as you can check off 1 of the 5 uses, rather than PbtA, where you have to roll against an abstract 1d6 or other die or lose dice.