Re: Re: One More Sunset Leap Post

From: David Cake <dave_at_...>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 16:48:32 +0800

> > This leads to the question: should feats do only one thing? Or can they do
>> many things? It also question how much should be pre-interpreted and
>> pre-digested for the players. For me it is clearly limiting creativity
>> and innovation if there is only one possible interpretation. I think this
>> might be what we are disagreeing about.
>
>
>I think Robin Laws, Roderick and other folks have stated repeatedly that
>there's more than one way to use or interperet a feat. I'd go with
>that.

	Use is not the same as interpret.
	Bears Strength, for example, can be used as a combat augment, 

to lift things, to resist weakness attacks, and heaps of other things, with several different rules. Its also unproblematic.

        Sunset Leap, for example, is problematic because there is more than one way to interpret it. Is sunset a time? A direction? A metaphor for something? A reference to an obscure myth?

        Even in multiple interpretations, there are interpretations that are basically variants on the intended meaning, and those that are not.

        Multiple uses good. Multiple interpretations bad.

	Cheers
		David