10-18-2015, 11:11 PM
Edit Reason: I had an actual talk with someone and their argument made sense
I'm just going to put the argument out here in the open because reasons.
If we're going to run Mage 20th, in my opinion it's neither fair nor helpful to people who are brand new to WOD or to Mage in general to have this 600-page doorstopper of a source book that they already have to read through and then to show up all excited to jump in and it's like "Oh wait yeah no Art is Performance now but if you want to actually be good at painting and shit that's under Crafts and Esoterica is Occult but if you want to be hella good at new age non-western mysticism that's included under Medicine or you can take a Secondary Ability or something etc etc" on top of whatever else we're doing or not doing. (Arete upgrades costing x 6 instead of x 7, I'm looking at you.)
It's way easier for us old-timers to grandfather in changes to our two-year-old sheets than it is for some rookie to have to make sense of a sheet that has a bunch of subtle but significant differences on it and besides in like a year nobody will even remember the fact that we used to use the Revised sheet so I don't see using the sheet that comes with the book hurting anything.
I'm just going to put the argument out here in the open because reasons.
If we're going to run Mage 20th, in my opinion it's neither fair nor helpful to people who are brand new to WOD or to Mage in general to have this 600-page doorstopper of a source book that they already have to read through and then to show up all excited to jump in and it's like "Oh wait yeah no Art is Performance now but if you want to actually be good at painting and shit that's under Crafts and Esoterica is Occult but if you want to be hella good at new age non-western mysticism that's included under Medicine or you can take a Secondary Ability or something etc etc" on top of whatever else we're doing or not doing. (Arete upgrades costing x 6 instead of x 7, I'm looking at you.)
It's way easier for us old-timers to grandfather in changes to our two-year-old sheets than it is for some rookie to have to make sense of a sheet that has a bunch of subtle but significant differences on it and besides in like a year nobody will even remember the fact that we used to use the Revised sheet so I don't see using the sheet that comes with the book hurting anything.
Look. I have school. And RP. And all my other time is taken up by sheer, unreasoning panic. I don't have time for Reddit.
-- ixphaelaeon
-- ixphaelaeon