Skilled parens and opening the arts

[Berengar]

@Jabir

If you want to reference a later game supplement that suggests troupes use discretion on core rules and call this reference RAW, fine.

Apprentices is without doubt rules as written.

It was some seven years in the making, hence its planning should have started soon after corebook release. Already at corebook release it was quite clear, that apprenticeships in the Order of Hermes were more diverse than p.106f Training Your Apprentice could cover. With more books appearing, that diversity increased while Apprentices was being worked on.

When it finally appeared 2012, Apprentices contained p.10f Inherited Virtues and Flaws, which allow apprentices to 'discover' Virtues and Flaws at convenient times during their apprenticeship, without the need of teaching or initiation. This is only a part:

@"Apprentices p.10f [i

Inherited Virtues and Flaws[/i]"]A child character may not have developed such strengths and weaknesses at the point in life at which the player creates him. That is, the player wants the character to develop in a certain way, but wants to play the character before those developments manifest. Inherited Virtues and Flaws allow the player to create that situation. Only magus and companion characters can start play with Inherited Virtues and Flaws.
An Inherited Virtue or Flaw is one that hasn’t yet manifested, but will under certain conditions.
Use your common sense when selecting which Virtues and Flaws can be Inherited. It need not be a biological event that triggers the Virtue or Flaw manifesting. “Inherited” merely means the potential for the Virtue or Flaw exists within the character or his environment and hasn’t yet materialized.
All Inherited Virtues and Flaws must materialize by adulthood (age 21). They can manifest at any age, either through player decision — “I want this to happen when Rufus is 10” — or in response to a gaming session — “That was a very fun encounter and would explain Rufus’ growth spurt; let’s do it!”

Apprentices is meant to provide rules for role-playing an apprenticeship. So it has indeed lots of calls for troupe adjudication, both within its text and in the comments of its author on this forum.

Cheers