Re: [spoon-discuss] Fwd: RE: [Thermo] Proposals File

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, April 19, 2003, at 01:44  AM, Glotmorf wrote:

> > Actually, why restrict it to a subgame? What if we just made some
> > random powers that could be granted to players in the game? We'd need 
> > a
> > minister to track who had what, but some pretty spiffy powers could be
> > made...
> >
> >
> > Or would that overcomplicate things?
>
> Probably, but some of the things you mention would make some things 
> that exist worthwhile.  For example, we're not really using gender for 
> anything except siren avoidance, and in that one case females have a 
> big advantage over non-females. (We could make sirens have random 
> gender, so that some of them are surf studs, some are plug-in pleasure 
> consoles, etc., just to make it fair.) But Extreme Sexiness could work 
> for either gender.
>
> In the OO system, would a special power be a property, a method, or an 
> object?  I could make a case for object.

Definitely. If worst comes to worst, we could think of them as little 
things you carry... sort of like enchantments in Magic - if you've got 
the card with you, you have the corresponding properties.

In terms of overcomplicating things, I'm working on simplifying things 
at least a bit...

--
Wonko

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