RE: Charms for friends

From: Tony Davis <gallows_brother_at_...>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:22:38 -0800 (PST)

Well sure, Mike, that's how it goes. But it just seems to be a very roundabout way to do things... here, make a character... no no just describe it... describe it however you want. Oh yeah, be specific, but don't worry about describing...

And then we say 'oh yeah, but your character can't actually have these things because there's a whole culture you knew nothing about when you started writing up your stuff.'

It makes the Words Method a much more complicated chargen than it was advertised as being.

tony

>
> >From: Tony Davis <gallows_brother_at_...>
> >
> >For sure.� I mean, they wouldn't write a rules
> system
> >where you could put 'anything' in your hero
> >description and then tell you you couldn't do it...
> >right?� Right?
>
> To play devil's advocate, Tony, though the rules do
> say you can put anything
> in your description, where those abilities are
> standard, they're handled in
> a standard way. For example, there's the "broad
> ability" rules, the "pompous
> magic" rules, etc, that say all inform that
> abilities really are only in a
> certain range of sorts. And there are other
> implications in the rules about
> limits as well, yes. Basically you can make up
> abilities, yes, but that's
> not quite the same as saying that your character can
> have "anything." The
> structure is a good thing, generally.
>
> (Now just how much structure is best and which
> structural elements are
> actually beneficial are separate considerations).
> :-)
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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