Here's my suggested fix. Since I'm slightly the worse (better?) for drink (though the hefeweiß is not so sweet as at tentacles -- *poignant pause*), I shan't trouble to re-edit the original, filled though it is with ad hominem swipes and generally shoddy chit-chat).
> OK, here's my meta-mod: use the Ordinary column of the printed table,
> before the slash numbers only. Apply twee or obscene doodles to rest
> of table, as per taste.
>
> Then calculate total support as follows:
>
> Each total supporter is worth the equivalent of 4 ordinary guys;
> Each extra-ordinary supporter is worth the equivalent of 8 ordinary guys.
>
> So to take a pathologically 'bitty' case, if I have 5 extraordinary,
> 22 total, and 125 ordinary supporters, then that's a 'net'
> 8x5+22x4+125 = 40+88+125 = 253, just enough to get me into the +10
> bracket.
>
> If you prefer, you can 'convert' to 'equivalent-total' (extra- = x2,
> ord. = x1/4), or 'equivalent-extra' (total = x1/2, ord. = x1/8),
> if that seems easier in a given case, then use the corresponding
> column).
>
>
> This actually corresponds almost exactly to the printed tables, in
> the case of 'unmixed' support, apart from some wobbles at the
> top of the tables: +5's or +10's? I'm still minded to have a
> smoother table, personally, maybe something like a flat +2 per
> doubling, say, maybe +3 per. If anything, the table seems slightly
> on the modest side: if you get extraordinary support from every
> man in your clan, you'll get a mere +W? But the printed table
> will do for the time being, I think.
>
>
> Traditionally at this point, David D. would complain this is Too
> Much Maths. Personally, I say it's not bad, bearing in mind that
> a ritual of that sort is a pretty big event, and not sometimes
> one ends up doing 18 times a session, so two multiplications (at
> most) won't kill anyone. Also, if support is _not_ mixed, you
> can still use the tables directly. (Oops, delete those doodles...)
> And if it really seems like too much work, and support is shamelessly
> mixed, then calculating them separately and picking the best bonus
> will give a reasonably close match. (Tradition being that if
> one does this, and then miss one's roll by 2, _then_ one starts to
> whinge and reach for calculators...)
>
>
> Probably you still want to tot up supporters and dissenters
> separately, convert to one bonus and one malus, and then add them
> together. Otherwise the dissenters would be too easily swamped,
> which I don't think is the intent, or the most reasonable thing.
>
> Comments?
>
> Cheers,
> Alex.
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