Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-38197834-20190213063122/@comment-454133-20190313192222

'tis true. You have to drink deeply to develop a clear sense of how the rules work, especially in the edge cases. But that's why I'm here -- I'm pretty good at the rules and I'm happy to help people out! Hopefully my explanation helped instead of adding to the confusion. ^_^

IMO 2E rules are far better and more consistent than 1E's. There are still problems, but it's an across-the-board improvement. They fixed a lot of past problems and structured things very consistently all in one go, so once you understand some things, it helps with others. You do have to read the full rules reference and spend some time struggling with some of its meaning, but that may be par for the course with tabletop games. ;)  The main thing they failed was not explicitly saying "hey players, this rulebook is incomplete!  You need the full rules reference online at (this address)".  They dropped the ball there.