My take is that I had imagined WebMAT more as a group thing where all the wizards work together rather than us having to shepherd along each WebMAT member individually. I understand the action economy issue, but I think my preferred version would be WebMAT can only do one or two things per turn but the things it can do are BIG because there's a team of wizards on them. So it's the same amount of narrative writing from BoneyM, but the results are much more powerful.
An example from the quest would be when we were getting aid from multiple Lord Magisters and a Runelord on building the Eye of Gazul, and it at least had the potential (which we rolled high to realize) to produce a really incredible result. I don't expect our current WebMAT team could produce an Eye of Gazul level result, but I could see it able to do much more than an individual Max action or Johann action or Egrimm action could manage.
Like, what I wish we could have done this turn was have WebMAT as an institution scour the archives of the Colleges for Waystone material. We would have lost the individual Johann and Egrimm actions, but because Egrimm was part of the action he might have been able to push us immediately to "negotiate for whatever the Light College knows".
Does that make sense and would anyone else prefer it worked like that?
