New teased multi-arm rules don't make sense with rules regarding wielding.

[DemonicDem]

Quote:

Good news for skittermanders who want to jump rope and wield a flamethrower at the same time: you are now going to be able to perform actions and use items with your other hands, but you can only wield items (such as shields and weapons) with your active hands.

You need to wield almost all items to use them.

You wouldn't be able to use most items in your inactive hands because you aren't wielding them.
It's not like wielding is specifically related to combat items
like, you'd need to wield a jumprope to use it, since it would require two hands to use.

Any item that is "held in one hand" is considered to need to be wielding it, such as all the items in the "Medical Items" section. Source.

Any items with the manipulate trait also require to be wielding them, unless it doesn't require to be held (so the above quote makes sense when referring to, say, a Collar of the Shifting Spider or any spell chips/gems that only have the concentrate trait). Source.

[Justnobodyfqwl]

I don't mean to be rude, but I don't see the point in making a thread about this before we see the rule.

Of course what they're saying doesn't make sense in the current rules. That's why we're about to get new specific rules that change the general rules. Thats why they say "specific beats general".

I'm sure it'll be something like "You don't need to be wielding an item in order to use it, except for guns and shields and stuff".

I'm rereading the language they used, and I get how you got tripped up. I just feel like the intention is really clear

[DemonicDem]

Justnobodyfqwl wrote:

I don't mean to be rude, but I don't see the point in making a thread about this before we see the rule.

Because I am taking their description literally, which doesn't make much sense, and I wish to notify them of that in case it's a literal description of the actual rules they are intending to use, so they don't waste time in the future fixing it with errata. If it's not, it costs them nothing, and we all go on our way.

If they wanted to say just weapons and shields needed to be wielded in main hands, they would have just said so, instead of giving them as an example of some item wielded in hands.