Re: Beauty vs. Beasts (was"Not about pics")

From: melstra_at_...
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:20:25 -0000

> Great quote!
>
>
> >is there a
> > "beauty" keyword that would equate to this?
>
> Sure! This is the great joy of Hero Wars. As long as the skill is
appropriate enough that the ref says you can use it, and its modifiers aren't too bad (or the skill is huge enough to overcome the modifiers) then you can oppose a character's beauty vs. another character's Close Combat, or whatever.
>
> Look at Helen (I'd be happy to) in the Illiad...

[extensive statistical analysis deleted for space and sanity]

Um, er, thanks. I should have known. I sort of suspected as much. Although...ironically, most of the female attributes mentioned in TR seem to be focused more on healing, creativity, nature and fertility in general rather than pure 'swoon' power--I guess the sex appeal is just an understood by product...

-Melanie, who usually feels safer and more skilled fighting with words than either swords or beauty.