insaniak wrote:
oni wrote: Do you own a rulebook? Read it again, it's right there in bold lettering. Unless you're trying to be difficult, are choosing to be blind or you're That Guy, it's irrefutable.
It's really not.
As Azrael13 pointed out, the introduction to the psychic section mentions a relationship between Mastery Level and casting, but doesn't actually define it. That intro is a direct copy and past from last edition, when that relationship
was a 1 for 1 deal... but the rest of the psychic phase rules have changed, and that direct correlation no longer exists. Instead, we have a psychic section that explicitly allows you to keep casting powers until you run out of warp charges.
So either it's supposed to be limited by your mastery level but they accidentally left that bit out of the rules, or it's supposed to be limited solely by the number of warp charges you generate and they didn't realise that the copy-paste intro would cause issues... but which of those possibilities is the
right way to play it is in doubt. Hence the need for an
FAQ.
Given the current games' strong leanings towards second edition, my personal assumption is that it's only supposed to be limited by warp charges, as that's how it worked in 2nd edition.
It's hardly the only problem with the current psychic rules...
Actually, specifically what it says is that the number of psychic powers a psyker can use per turn 'Depends on'(exact words) their mastery level. Which is why this whole discussion happens, because you could argue literally anything is what it means as long as their is correlation and still be just as correct as anyone else. A librarius conclave player would take that to mean the psyker can cast every power he has access to, his opponent, however, can claim that it's actually 7 mastery levels per 1 power and still be exactly right as per the literal interpretation of
RAW. So they both argue until they physically can't speak anymore, never finish their game and go home angry.
This is why
FAQs like ITC have to exist for competitive play.
I'm just now realizing that this was just a long winded way of say 'yes i agree' apologies.
