Re: About Anaxials Roster, and the otherworlds

From: Nick_at_...
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:09:20 -0000

Maybe the rules list is the wrong place to mention this, but Greg's (unpublished) fiction does include examples of people who, while heroquesting or otherwise interacting with myths, either perceive themselves as insignificant motes buffeted by cosmic forces beyond their comprehension, or else take on cosmic dimensions themselves.

I think (in general) that attempting to measure anything on the Hero Plane is mistaken. Measure is a technique that applies to the Mundane World; on the eternal, cyclical, symbolic Gods' World it cannot and does not work. The key thing is that your sense of time, scale, size, etc. is skewed in the otherworld. Sometimes you're a gnat squeaking in giants' ears; other times you stride from one mountain-peak to the next.

Follow the story. Don't sweat the small stuff. I agree that having modifiers bite in two directions at once (they get +20 on their home plane, and I get -20 for being there) sounds severe -- any Anaxial buffs want to comment on this?

Cheers, Nick

PS: the Invisible Measure of the Sorcerous World is, of course, the reverse. *Everything* there is precisely quantifiable and measurable. This is the uncanny place where every family would have *exactly* 2.6 children, where pop-up boxes appear as your eyes pass over entities detailing their elemental make-up, where rangefinders and perspective lines appear to suit your convenience, where Adepts can read runic Matrix-code scrolling down their perceptions. Confused? You should be!