>it seems like there are an awful lot of really long threads on how
>to resolve fairly straightforward tasks (archery, in the latest
>go-round).
For the record, I don't know how to make horse archery other than boring in RuneQuest, either.
Argh, I'm drawn back into that infamous feat debate by Benedict:
>Firstly, the term 'Sunset Leap' does impose *some* structure and
>limit on creativity: the feat must have something to do with sunsets
>and leaping.
If it were the Salmon Leap feat (a feat from Celtic sagas), would it have to have anything to do with salmon? I don't believe so, but rather it would allow jumping vertically. It's jumping *like* a salmon.
I don't think that the Sunset Leap really has anything to do with sunsets, but it allows horizontal jumps (with similar logic -- toward sunset is not towards the noon sun). I think people are reading more into it than is required, and it's just a name. Any more than the "Enhance Gustbran" spell from RQ3 actually did anything to the god Gustbran.
But as in Doyle's example, it's not necessarily wrong for your game to require a connection with sunset (chronological or directional).
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