Sleeping like a log (naturally).

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_...>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:38:09 -0000

Discussions of this sort traditionally founder on a number of points:

        o  People (not just Issaries, let's be fair) double-glaze-over
           at mention of logarithms, tables, maths in general, and 
worst
           of all, LaTeX in otherwise innocent lists.  (Well, speaking
           relatively...)

        o  It's far from a given what it's appropriate to "simulate"
           here (setting aside appropriateness of simulation to a 
given
           degree at all).  Is 10W2 twice as good as 10W?  Five times
           as good?  Ten times?  When figuring augments, is it 
necessarily
           the case that the two abilities participate equally?  e.g.
           you bop someone using your CC[*] augmented by your 
Swordhelp,
           ought the two to have "equal weight"?

        o  The natural desire for a degree of compatibility with the
           existing rules on augments (et al), which is pretty wildly
           incompatible with the first point, and may or may not be
           on the second (all depending what one thinks is a funky/
           appropriate/Heroic/etc sort of effect, anyway).

Absent consensus on the second point (or effective fiat, which seems unlikely), soft-pedalling our way past the first is necessarily going to
be even more difficult. And as far as the official rules are concerned,
my betting would be that the third will be pretty decisive.

Cheers,
Alex.

[*] Did someone say that HQ is going for explicitly _narrower_ abilities
than CC? Well, I'll be...