Duke Frost said:
Now if only Tupac and Biggie could have figured out their East Coast/West Coast issues before it was too late like Bryan and I have
Something to throw out there on this point...
There's a fair number of differences in
style between different "groups" of chapters (in the past this has commonly been termed WC and EC, but I think at this point I'd call it 3 groups, WC/EC/MW (midwest)), but everyone does their best to get an honest interpretation of the rules from their perspective. The last rulebook went a fair way towards cleaning up some language that led to different interpretations, and further ARC clarifications have helped even more.
Style will always be different (and this is a good thing in my opinion), but if you know of something that's a major difference in the way a
rule is interpreted from one chapter to another, go ahead and bring it up in the public Rules forum - and if there's enough interest there, post the question in the ARC questions forum. Don't just let it languish and complain about it in the style of "bleah, this is how we do it, but they do it differently!" - that doesn't get us anywhere useful.
I've done my share of whining over the years but honestly we are in a way better spot for coherent rules interpretations now than we were even 3 or 4 years ago, and it's great to see.
-Bryan