Thank you both for your replies.  They have helped me understand the potential of making cool new Styles with nice flavor. I also can understand the benefits of things like Two-Weapon Combo, and the other styles that give a -1 discount.  But I guess I'm stuck on the ones that need a prerequisite like Archery or Sword & Board.

If you plan on buying lots of moves (if you want to master Sanju for example), the first option may become cheaper in the long run.

With fewer ranks, this may not seem as a huge benefit, but over time, with more and more rank in the skills, the cost savings do add up.

At a certain point I can see how it would be cheaper if you are getting many moves; if you buy them all Archery is a savings of 16 and S&B is a savings of 22. But I guess my issue is this: eventually it seems to me that it'll always cost more to use these styles.  The reason for this is that to raise these skills, you have to upkeep the other skill, so you're paying double.
For example, to get Archery to 12, I would also need to get Bows to 12, and the 16 points I've saved from discounted moves has been used up because of having to buy ranks for two skills instead of one.  And in the future, I'd have to keep buying double ranks because I can't use those Archery Moves with my Bow skill.  (I think that's right.  You can't use Archery moves with your Bows skill, right?)

So, thanks for the explanation. I guess at this point I'm just stuck on these two Styles. Because once you've bought all the moves, there seems to be no benefit, only downside from having to buy ranks in two skills.

Hello,

A few weeks ago, I bought everything from the base book to Libram Novus 6 due to the sale that was going on.  I'm pretty excited for the actual book to arrive.  Anyway,  I was reading through the Librams and some of the early ones make reference to out-of-date beta versions of the game.  It's not a huge deal, but it does make initial reading a little more confusing than it has to be.

For example, page 2 of Libram Novus 2 talks about changes that happened in beta 0.5.  It is confusing at first to a newcomer, and it makes me think that maybe this Libram is also a little out of date (even though I assume it's completely fine).

Page 3 of Libram Novus 3 also talks about Beta 0.6 in the future tense which is odd.  I suppose it made sense at the time, but maybe it's unnecessary now.

Anyway, as I said, these are only minor points, but just things that make it a little confusing with references to things that aren't up-to-date.