Re: Digest Number 571

From: Thom Baguley <t.s.baguley_at_...>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:51:19 +0100


>>re "stop time"
>>OK, again assuming one would accept this, what would be the result in GAME
>>terms? You're having a fight with Old Perk the Troll, and you succcefully
>>stop time. What happens game-mechanically? Do you get an augment like
>>anything else? That seems pretty wimpy result for otherwise mondo cool
>>ability.
>
> Time, it seems to me, is the province of Aracne Solera. Screwing
>with time seems like a bad idea. It touches on the Great Compromise.
>Imagine -- really high penalties to use, and if you role successfully, you
>get "Come to the Attention of Extremely Unfriendly Gods Who Are Still
>Pissed about That Red Goddess Thing" at 12....

Yes, it strikes me as either i) chaos, or ii) Lunar illuminate type of thing, or both! He'd be dead in the first session of a Heortling game.

Thom

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