I like fitting seemingly incongruous things into the picture I make; I'm not afraid to change these kinds of things, but I liked the idea of 'canny heroes' -- most of the Gloranthan heroes I've seen are fairly direct in approach. I'm a big fan of the clever viking heroes of the sagas, and this gives me a clan patron who emphasizes that in what I think is a particularly Heortling way.
> When I saw 'Restore Wyter' I thought that there was some sort
> of Save Game function - if you've screwed up, it can be restored
> to its orignal form.
To some extent, I wanted to have a way for newbie players to save their clan if they screw the pooch. 'There's Always Another Way.'
> In a pure 'game's sense, it probably allows the hero to spend
> HP to increase the wyter's abilites instead of his own.
> Probably at some RUINOUS rate (say spend HP to Ablity = +1 to
> ability) - remember one man, even one who knows a secret, is
> only a small part of a Wyter which is comprised of 1300 people
> AND their ancestors AND all the acts of will that have been
> done with it for the last very, very, very long time.
This makes great sense, and works pretty well. Although, one man can indeed make a difference. It just takes an extraordinarily successful investment. And I think such HP expenditure is a pretty good measure of it.
Thanks.
Roland
Powered by hypermail