I agree with Chris's reasoning below, and furthermore do we have any canonical basis for changing it?
To be honest, it's a bit like that thing were a kid in school asks the teacher "Please Miss, can I go to the toilet?" and she says "I don't know, can you?" and they apparently should have asked "May I got to the toilet?" (Well, they used to do that in the UK in my day, at least.... it's probably illegal now or something ;) i.e. it's pedantic and we could add a footnote musing about the possible interpretations if you want, but they seem to pain some people.
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Neilson
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 12:19 AM To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [projectaon] Re: Book 13 Erratum On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 15:56 -0700, Jonathan Blake wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> Over on the forum is a post about something we intend to alter for the > next> release of Book 13, specifically the hoary old chestnut about re-picking > stats when transitioning from Book 12 -> 13. Since you don;t repick your> starts in transitioning from Book 1 -> 2 (just in case you might get > better> numbers), it seems obvious to me that you do NOT re-pick stats, but some > feel otherwise. > > <http://projectaon.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=helpwanted&action=display&thread=2248> > > Anyone want to field a reply/response? Are we happy with the changes we> intend to make? Am currently laid low with a very unpleasant bug, so > I'll> leave it in the capable hands of the rest of the PA staff! ;-) Hope you're feeling better now. This seems to have gotten very little discussion the first go 'round because we got caught up with +3/+5 Bow bonus. I can see the point of someone being at a disadvantage if they started in the middle of the series (although I wonder if anyone does that now that all of the books are freely available online). Should we just reverse our decision and leave it as "can"?
I believe we should leave it as "can". Its my opinion that the Grandmaster books are balanced for a player not carrying stats over from previous books. Therefore playing with stats that are lower than the lowest possible book13-only stats puts you at a distinct disadvantage (especially if you have not obtained the Sommerswerd for whatever reason) - I actually get the impression this whole thing was a way to nerf the CS imbalance by those with the sword and those without (it would have been much better if the sword set your base CS to X while wielding it rather than adding X - ah well). I cant see any reason why a veteran player should not have the option of dumping all their stats and resetting them for books 13+ if they so choose. The word "can" implies you have this option, as does "should" - but "should" is pushing an interpretation of the rules that is not backed by any official (ie from Joe or newsletters) recommendation (as far as I am aware). Basically it seems like a case of changing wording for no benefit. ~~~~~~ Manage your subscription at //www.freelists.org/list/projectaon ~~~~~~ Manage your subscription at //www.freelists.org/list/projectaon
