Grey areas of the rules

My personal thoughts and handling:

Using Herbs/Drugs
If the PC’s already has the herbs or drugs and wants to make a concoction, I would allow 1 roll per scene (similar to a binding) assuming that time/space is available (If the scene is trapped in a dungeon, no).

Gathering Herbs
I have also allowed this 1 / scene based upon the terrain of the scene. For quantities I’ve used 1d6 + a bonus based upon how much the PC beats the TN (Usually +1 / 5 over the TN)

Mundane Item Creation
I think allowing 1 roll / adventure (assuming that an adventure is a ‘week’ of time is fair for Good items is fair and noting down on the chronicle page the progress made (or lost) and cost spent (or lost) is sufficient.

That said, I think in general crafting is going to be problematic (especially for creating items of Fine/Exceptional value) as a PC, both in terms of economy and just bookkeeping. A great many people thought keeping track of lifestyle costs was too much bookkeeping and we’ve simplified fate tracking for the same reason. Trying to track week-level progress on crafting across adventures and Chronicler’s seems a daunting task in general. There is also the potential of creating a player economy only for ‘goods’ and not ‘services’. This means that why should someone with an Artisan Skill get to make and sell items for profit if someone with “Knowledge” can’t sell their services as a sage/scribe and make a profit.

Crafting Alchemical Items
I would disallow this for PC’s. Alchemical items are one of the few ‘money sinks’ in the game and turning them into an income source has the same problems as above.

Rune Creation
I don’t think this belongs in the hands of PC’s

Advanced Spells
My personal feeling is if you created an advanced spell, the ‘combined’ spell assumes the ‘Least common denominator’ of everything (Which differs a bit based upon the rules). This means to me:
A) You get the shortest range of the 2 spells
B) You get the smallest area of the 2 spells
C) You get the fewest targets of the 2 spells
D) You attack the highest defense of the 2 spells (Different from rules)
E) You take the harshest restrictions of the 2 spells (So if one spell doesn’t affect undead, the advanced spell doesn’t affect undead)
F) You get the worst AR bypassing (if one spell bypasses and one doesn’t, the combined spell doesn’t)

In exchange for this you get the benefits
A) Casting 2 spells in one action
B) Applying either spell’s adaptations to the finished spell
C) Getting cool and useful combination effects

John

Additional things not documented well:

undisciplined psions
how expert archtype can select talents during step 2 (and why races cant)
what starting languages are

John , I give up man, I feel like you want to talk about a tangent to the subject I’m bringing up, I would much prefer that you respond to the entirety of my message rather than taking the discussion in another direction right away.

We all have opinions on the matter, I’m notably not debating my opinions on any of those matters here, I’m trying to talk about how we need specific guidance on those subjects, not what that guidance should be.

You need to be clearer with what you want. Don’t say to are starting a conversation then immediately blow off the start of one. If you just people to list gray areas, say so clearly. If you just want PCI or the campaign coordinator to make a decision say that.

I give up as well because I’m tired of you always telling me my opinion things doesn’t matter. In out of this and will imement whatever you decide you want done.

John

I thoughtthe uUndisciplined Psion thing was a future errata and not a hard ruling on the old forums. I know a player who rebuilt waiting for the errata but the errata never dropped.

Using Herbs/Drugs, Gathering Herbs, Mundane Item Creation, crafting alchemical items- This is a campaign issue, and should be covered in the campaign document.

Rune Creation – this is something that we always felt should be out of the reach of players

Advanced spells work (range and what combined means), what starting languages are, undisciplined psions – See the new errata

how expert archtype can select talents during step 2 (and why races cant) – to be covered in a future update… I intend to revisit character creation and clean it up.