When you say beta packet are you referring to the first playtest packet, or something newer?
13th Age 2E update!
Weiley31
Legend
The email makes it sound like it is the revised version of the Alpha packet I would assume. So new stuff.
13th Age Second Edition
pelgranepress.com
We’re going to do a shorter playtest window on the Beta Packet, which we’ll release during the crowdfunding campaign to backers and already-enrolled playtesters. We’ll focus our feedback requests on some of the newest elements, including the musically talented bard, the simmering barbarian, rushing rogues, overspill-effect sorcerers, and drastic dragons.
Wofano Wotanto
Hero
Has that ever not functionally been the case in 13th Age? Getting a night's sleep doesn't count as a full reset rest until the GM says so, and that's based on how much your resources have been taxed and/or the oppositions plans have advanced rather than the day of the week changing. "Arc" is a better term than day for that, but it doesn't seem like a change mechanically, just better phraseology.
Phraseology that I was previously unable to avoid pointing out the absurdity of at nearly every opportunity in play. So, yes, small change for most sane people. Big change for my 13th Age GMs.
Wofano Wotanto
Hero
Fair enough. We certainly had enough of the One-Encounter Workday guff back in 4e too.
Selling something as daily, when the day lasts a weeks long boat ride with another solar day after deboating before we get to the next battle was painful. Calling it arc should change a lot in terms of perception of what characters can do, especially when D&D has actual dailies and that's where a lot of us were coming from there.
I wonder if it could also serve as a reason the non adventurers aren't doing them all the time - it's a heroic adventuring (aka arc undertaking) thing.
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Yeah, this took a while for my players to get used to. I started calling it a full refresh instead of a day just to try to set expectations. Arc is a better term imo.
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