deluge wrote:
Southernskies (who I game with) suggests that 50% or Martial builds and 75% of Expert builds will be invalidated. I would expect the number of players affected by this to be a smaller number. It will, as he says, impact most on Martial and Expert builds because they are the main builds with access to chosen Talents and Martial Techniques. Most will have to choose a different Talent or Martial Technique.
Actually, I think the percentages may be even higher. Many Martials take Sweeping Strikes and many Experts take Quick (there are certainly others taken where requirements are not met but those seem to be the most common).
deluge wrote:
I don't think that the number of exempt Talents involved here is the problem. I think that an unclear rule has been used to overlook the Requirements necessary to access Talents and by extension Martial Techniques. I cannot think of a reason why these Requirements should be overlooked. They were written into the rules to provide flavour and context for the Talents and Martial Techniques.
I completely disagree. The rule was explicitly clarified (for Archetypes) in the Errata. It very clearly allows ignoring requirements for chosen Talents (specifically named Talents
always ignore all requirements). Given that it was specifically clarified to allow choosing things regardless of most requirements (for Archetype), I strongly feel it would be a
very bad idea to reverse that now.
I have much less of an opinion on Backgrounds and Paths.