Re: HeroQuesting

From: SimonPhipp_at_aol.com
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 19:28:35 -0400


> in the "whatever is believed is true" universe, some future
> heroquester can retroactively rearrange history so that he and his
> sister saved the city, or the city was never in danger, or we failed
> and the city *was* eaten by chaos. Anything we did is ultimately
> meaningless and futile, because it may never actually have happened.

Hero Questing can only alter God Time events. Anything that has happened in Time will continue to have happened.

However, Quests can affect the results of earlier Quests. For instance, curing the Curse of Kin will not turn all trollkin into trolls, nor will it alter the fact that Gbaji cursed the trolls. However, it may mean that all new trolls born will not be trollkin. In this case, will multiple births be trolkin? I doubt it.

Somebody once asked in my campaign what would happen if he tried to prove that the humans cheated in the Waha Covenant contests and how would he do it. The how was very difficult, so he gavce up, but the what is interesting. I think that the Quest would have to be performed for each nation involved in the Covenant. Any victorious quest would mean that animals from those nations could raise herd men in the same way that morokanth do. It would then create two forms of each nation, one animals herding men, the other men herding animals. It would not turn all praxian men into herd men and vice versa.


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