Mar 10, 2016, 5:10 PM

@Ganymede I could lay out a lot of whining, but the core is that the system fiction isn't designed around that arrangement at all, and so the Arcana don't feel linked to such things. I can see muscles when I think physical force, but I don't when I see lightning (See The Three Storms). That combines with the problem that the stats are not that interesting, and get little actual descriptive service save as the base of skill pools.

I'd sooner see Arcana linked to personality traits (choose one or more from this list of 3), or having the limits set according to an initial template of merits (could be done by pure numbers, or templates based on kind of mage or culture of origin what have you). By template I mean something like One Arcana limit set to 4, two at 3, one to 1 (or 0!). And you improve those by in game actions and then XP.

It's as clear as purple crayon!