There seems to be some confusion regarding the Progress Tracker. Page 25 in ToA mentions an 11-space track. The accompanying picture shows that the first piece of the track is an event space. Now the text says that the two tokens should be placed on the first space of the tracker, but the picture shows that the tokens are actually placed on the second space, as if the initial event space doesn't count. So the question is, why was the first piece of the tracker (the event space) necessary? And shouldn't this be actually called a 10-space track and not 11?

Page 27 mentions a "simple...10-space track". Does it refer to what was shown the picture in page 25, or to something else?

Also, if an 11-space track has only 10 spaces that are actually used, then when the text in an adventure says to build an X-long track, does it actually mean that the first space is taken by an unused event space, so there are actually only X-2 spaces to advance forward on?

I'll appreciate if people would let me know how the following trackers are supposed to look like exactly:

1. Page 27 of the ToA mentions a 5-space long tracker with an event marker on the last space. How would that look like?

2. Page 3 of "A Day Late, A Shilling Short" asks the GM to assemble a progress tracker that "should be eight spaces long, with an event marker on the 4th and 8th spaces". How would that look like?

Thanks!

Just take your pick of the options and then stick with it; I'm not sure there is a "right" answer and it probably doesn't matter much anyway.

I think any events on the first space in examples are just really there to make the track design look "complete"; I'd always start the tokens on the first space (unless rules say they should start on a different space) and not class it as an event space, even if i put one of those pieces there.

Pumpkin is right, set it and forget it.

but if you are adament on sticking the the rules, On a 8 step tracker and they say the 4th and 8th is event. That means the 4th step would be a neutral track and the 8th would be a neutral track.

For example

[ ][ ][ ][X][ ][ ][ ][X]

[ ]= regular track step

[X}= neutral track step aka event space!