Re: Re : Questions from our first session

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:54:46 +1300

At 12:14 7/01/01 +0100, you wrote:

> > Um, this is not my example. My example made reference to the
> > Shield Destroyer in Humakt's Combat Affinity and the "Throw
> > Melee Weapon" that bryan neff thought of (but wasn't in Humakt's
> > listed combat feats - however "Throw Sword" might be better). For
> > an initiate, both can be improvised at the standard penalty (-3)
> > according to the rules. Nothing is said about whether the
> > improvised feat has to be similar to a standard feat or not.

>I don't like that because it implies that initiates and devotees of Humakt
>who have the same score in their Combat Affinity would have the same target
>number while improvising the "Throw Sword" feat.

But a devotee can cement the feat making it no penalty, while the initiate can't. I don't see why devotees should have an added advantages on feats.

>Wulf's solution seems to me
>much more elegant and logical: -3 penalty for the devotees, -6 for the
>initiates.

I'm getting confused as to who proposed what. In addition to the above, I've heard the following:

• first time you improvise a new feat, the penalty is -6 with an opportunity to improve it to -3. This looks like far too much bookkeeping for me.
• if a improvised feat is inappropriate for the affinity then it should have additional penalties. Some people wanted the improvised feats to be similar to existing feats without penalty but with feats like Vinga's or Yanafal's, I think it much easier to go by the general look-and-feel of the god, rather than by to eyeball it by existing feats.

--Peter Metcalfe