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<blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 8106409" data-attributes="member: 70468">When I talk about mechanics, I generally mean the model of the rules that results from internalizing the text rather than the text itself. I think I’ve mentioned a few times the poor job the text does helping players form those models. For example, I had to diagram perception and afflictions for myself and my group. They’re actually pretty simple, but the text spends too many pages trying to convey that (and failing for my group since we didn’t even come away with fully understanding them).I have no argument with you here. The rules as written do not communicate the game clearly. I want to be hopeful they just messed up and released the reference first (though as a reference the CRB is not great either), and the Beginner’s Box will actually be written in a way that helps people learn the game, but I’m not particularly confident in that hope.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kenada, post: 8106409, member: 70468"] When I talk about mechanics, I generally mean the model of the rules that results from internalizing the text rather than the text itself. I think I’ve mentioned a few times the poor job the text does helping players form those models. For example, I had to diagram perception and afflictions for myself and my group. They’re actually pretty simple, but the text spends too many pages trying to convey that (and failing for my group since we didn’t even come away with fully understanding them). I have no argument with you here. The rules as [I]written[/I] do not communicate the game clearly. I want to be hopeful they just messed up and released the reference first (though as a reference the CRB is not great either), and the Beginner’s Box will actually be written in a way that helps people learn the game, but I’m not particularly confident in that hope. [/QUOTE]

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