Re: Feats and their Descriptions

From: David Cake <dave_at_...>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:42:00 +0800


At 12:57 PM -0700 20/6/00, Wesley Quadros wrote:
>I will give you advance warning then about She Guards Us. We are
>putting feats in that are
>deliberately designed to be ambiguous.

        You suck.

>I still see Sunset Leap as being open to interpretation. Does this
>mean that they player
>can leap across the country? ACross the tula? Across the creak?
>Or does it mean he can
>leap as high as the planet?

        This actually opens a nasty nasty can of worms that caused big arguments during playtest, and is not answered in the rules - should the resistance for magical feats be the same as the resistance for the same thing by another ability? On one hand, it must be different or a lot of feats are pointless (ie Leap Over Tree would let you leap over small shrubs), on the other hand it seems that such feats should depend on some vaguely consistent scale.

        You entirely missed the point of the question about Lightning Sword - is the word lightning to be interpreted literally or metaphorically? - your examples all use it literally, but you don't say this, and instead deride the questioner for asking as this obviously shows a 'lack of imagination'. I also agree that its to be interpreted literally, not metaphorically.

>If you do not like using your imagination when you FRP then go play
>Rulemonster.

        If you enjoy engaging in word games, then go play them and stop trying to turn RPGs into word games.

        If on the other hand, as I suspect from your descriptions, you play with a more consistent of what the words in feats actually mean, but a very broad interpretation of how that is applied in practice, thats cool, and just try to be more understanding of others problems with the rules.

	Cheers
		David

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