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> On 23 Apr 2007, at 15:33, Chris Lemens wrote:
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>> I agree with Michael on this point. There is a table in one of the old RQ
>> books that assigns chaos features randomly. This is what I have always
>> understood "chaos feature" to mean. If that has changed, I missed it.
>> Defining ogres' ogreness as a chaos feature does nothing helpful.
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> I've got to admit that defining "being chaotic" as "having a chaos feature"
> and then insisting that "being chaotic" is a chaotic feature in itself seems
> to be rather begging the question.
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> However, I think the basic idea is salvageable. As well as Random Chaotic
> Features - the chart - there seem to be others, that are non-random. The
> strength and sharp teeth of ogres. The unnatural fertility of broo. The
> Thanatari tarnishing of silver. If you include these it may be workable.
I still disagree. I think these are physical manifestations of the underlying taint of chaos, not the taint itself. Could they be called chaos features? Yes. In fact, that makes a little more sense of the "random chaos feature". The things you list are "non-random chaos features". Non-random in that they are shared by all members of a race. Chaos being unpredictable and having no hard and fast rules means that it can sometimes have hard and fast rules. :-) But they are symptoms of the chaos taint, not the chaos taint itself.
Michael
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