Re: Re: Runes & personalities

From: John Machin <trithemius_at_...>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 14:43:12 +1000


2009/5/15 Bryan <bethexton_at_...>

> And yes, I'm one of those ones who likes playing characters who gifts and
> abilities don't always line up well with their roles. The big hulking
> wizard, the hunter who has a way with words, the happy farmer who needs to
> become a priest of a war god....so it is most probable that at some point
> I'll be making a character whose runes don't line up with their magic so
> well.

In a narrative game building a flawed character is like min-maxing in a tactical game! You drama min-maxer you!

(Seriously, are we really talking about whether min-maxing - or its reverse - is a good, bad, virtuous, unvirtuous thing?)

-- 
John Machin
"Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All."
- Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.

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