Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] A cookie to the first person to identify the quote...

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Another way of doing things would be to make being an Aes'Sedai, or a 
> > > Jedi, or whatever, be something that you can purchase with a new 
> > > currency, something like Character Creation Points, or something, that 
> > > you get when you become a player and after each grid reset, and you have 
> > > to repurchase with those points if you wish to keep your rank.  That 
> > > would make things accessible to everyone and fair, and yet maintain the 
> > > idea that not all people in a population have these powers.
> > -Not liking that as much. Game resets can come at inopportune times.
>
> I'm meaning if we were to rework the whole game reset thing, and let anyone 
> preserve what they had aquired over time with these Points, or, if they 
> hadn't achieved too much, buy new stuff so they can catch up a little 
> faster.

-Well, we can protect this from game resets by not adding it to the reset 
rule... that's easy enough.-
> > One thing that occurs to me, though... if you'll notice, most Jedi appear 
> > to be male.
>
> But not all.  I think that the males just tend to stand out more in the 
> movies and such.  Though of course it could favor males.  Like color 
> blindness.

-Well, and there aren't a lot of male channelers, either, but there are 
some. I'm just suggesting we make it a lot more black-and-white than it 
really is.-
> > All Aes Sedai are female - males who can use their power eventually go 
> > insane and kill people
>
> Well, there's three ways to deal with that.  The first is to use the fact 
> that at the time given in the books, the male part of the Source is 
> tainted, causing all the bad stuff.  We can say that our Source isn't.  
> Second, we can incorporate the madness into the game, causing males to have 
> a Madness attribute that increases with power use, and causes the player to 
> do random Bad Things.  Third, we can say that the male players are already 
> insane and out to kill others, and dealing with the Source won't change any 
> of that.

-First: Probably the easiest way to do it.
Second: Eh... no. Too complicated and too nasty - you can change your gender 
easily enough, so why risk the madness and living rot?
Third: Let's see... I don't think we /have/ any female players, and all of 
our players appear to be crazy and out to destroy things, like Dave's 
sanity, so this one is really just a given from the start.-
> > Gender does very little right now, so maybe it should be related to this.-
>
> Gender should be very much related to Aes'Sedai, determing what -'angraels 
> they can use in what way, and how powerful they tend to be in each of the 5 
> areas.  Those areas are Fire, Water, Spirit, and two others, I believe.  I 
> remember that healing used Water and Spirit.
-The four elements - Earth, Fire, Water, Air - and Spirit. Males are better 
with Fire and Earth, females with Water and Air, both equal with Spirit. 
Healing takes Water, Air, and Spirit. Some other good common ones were 
sheilding people from the Source - that's pure Spirit, Rand's sword of fire 
(made of... yes, good guess.), and a nifty Air-based way of tying someone 
up. I almost feel the easiest way to do this would be to have the Minister 
of the True Source be like a GM. You could post an action which describes 
what you do and what you intend it to do in terms defined by the ruleset ("I 
weave Earth and Water to create several feet of mud under Orc's feet - e 
cannot move until it dries next nweek"), and the GM/Minister decides what 
happens to you. ("Well, it worked, but the ward he had in place lobbed a 
fireball at you. Consider yourself Crispy Style.") Perhaps there would have 
to be a way to appeal if the decision seemed unfair.-

[[BvS]]

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