I understand what communities are about and what they aren ' t . However , if we are going to discuss authorial intentions of Terry Nation one day , bringing up Helen Raynor would be out of place , except as an example of later interpretation . While past works tend to be relevant for later ones , it does not go another way . Bringing up Daleks in Manhattan in discussion about Genesis of the Daleks is about as pointful as bringing up an actual fan fiction in the same discussion . <| sep |> Basically we have leagues where they introduce some special leaguespecific mechanic . There are standard and hardcore versions of the league in the past there has been a different league for each as well as a normal vanilla standard and hardcore . At the end of a league all the characters of that league go into either vanilla standard or hardcore . Your stash and items and character all carry over so you can still use them . I ' d suggest getting a little familiar with the game in standard or the soonending essence league but then starting from scratch in the new breach league coming on December 2 nd , where things will be much more active .