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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 7719059" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>With Ki, it really depends on what it is modeling (and what you are trying to model is what I think most of these discussions boil down to). If it is the kind the stuff from wuxia where you are cultivating actual energy that your character is aware of in your own body, it makes perfect sense to me that it is a resource you can manage. In those kinds of stories the characters often express acute awareness of their Qi cultivation. </p><p></p><p>One of the things I often do at the start of a campaign is try to get everyone on the same page in terms of what sort of reality they believe they inhabit. This is even beyond mechanics or system because it plays into assumptions about what kinds of cunning plans will yield results and how NPCs will react to them. I find a lot of disagreements over the kinds of things we are discussing here, often come down to people having different expectations (for example you may be expecting a reality more based on movie logic and Lord Mhoram might have more of a gritty reality in mind---even if the world happens to have magic as part of that reality). Even if you are going for cinematic, there is a universe of difference between say Back-to-the-Future and a Few Good Men. Doc Browns schemes are probably going to fail miserably in the reality of A Few Good Men.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 7719059, member: 85555"] With Ki, it really depends on what it is modeling (and what you are trying to model is what I think most of these discussions boil down to). If it is the kind the stuff from wuxia where you are cultivating actual energy that your character is aware of in your own body, it makes perfect sense to me that it is a resource you can manage. In those kinds of stories the characters often express acute awareness of their Qi cultivation. One of the things I often do at the start of a campaign is try to get everyone on the same page in terms of what sort of reality they believe they inhabit. This is even beyond mechanics or system because it plays into assumptions about what kinds of cunning plans will yield results and how NPCs will react to them. I find a lot of disagreements over the kinds of things we are discussing here, often come down to people having different expectations (for example you may be expecting a reality more based on movie logic and Lord Mhoram might have more of a gritty reality in mind---even if the world happens to have magic as part of that reality). Even if you are going for cinematic, there is a universe of difference between say Back-to-the-Future and a Few Good Men. Doc Browns schemes are probably going to fail miserably in the reality of A Few Good Men. [/QUOTE]
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