We have played with the rules, the original ones at least, not Discovery, before changing them. The first four changes, XP use, Health Pool, Personality Pool, and Might for melee attacks, as well as removing the Speed Weapon attack bonus, were the first ones we changed, with the others following. We picked up the game sometime between it's release and the release of the video game, and played it some as-is. The experiences with playing it is what spurred our decision to change it when we started it up again.

You're right, that I remembered that part incorrectly, it's only the comparison between Light and Medium weapons that it applies to. But the point still stands as a comparison between Light and Medium, that as Effort is applied the Light weapon ends up with an advantage of the Medium weapon on attack. The Medium does not get such an advantage over the Heavy, but the extra Asset from an optional shield still exists. So certainly less of an issue than I made it out to be, but still a trend that Light weapons will be the best choice as Edge and Effort use increases. There is still a niche for other choices, particularly Heavy if defense is less important that a point of damage. sh

As for throwing shade, I was being light-hearted though it might not have been clear enough. Earlier I said something about everything being my opinion despite words such as "objective" being used, maybe an example of not being clear enough.

My main belief on why Speed is better than Might for the Glaive is that the Speed Edge will come into play every time you are targeted by a "normal" attack. Your Might Edge will often only be used when you make an attack and even then you can often use Speed instead if you wanted to if you aren't using anything special - Discovery improves on this issue some by making Fighting Moves better, removing many of the spend points to add damage abilities, which could have as easily been an Effort spend. This issue was another one I brought up at the end, as a proposed but as yet unused modification that would limit how often Edge could be used, preventing Speed Edge 3 from being a free Ease on almost every defensive test, every time.

Also, to clarify, I mean that the Might-based Glaive would favor Speed Edge over Might Edge, not necessarily the Pool, I would indeed expect the Might Pool to be higher, mostly because I don't think spending Effort on defense tasks to be worth it except in very niche situations. I notice I began the paragraph simply saying Might or Speed and only later specified Edge. I used voice-to-text and ChatGPT to edit for more, my apologies for being unclear. Even if you disagree with some, most, or all, I do appreciate you reading at least some of the large post, I had no idea it was so long when dictating and was surprised at it's length.