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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Death By Surfeit" data-source="post: 677483" data-attributes="member: 8646">Psychosama: Whilst your pregnancy rules are indeed good, they are best placed in the GUCK forum, which is designed for brainstorming, posting new ideas, rules, and suchlike and discussing them - your rules are fine posted there, and in no way will be ignored.The GUCK development forum is a focused attempt to edit all the material we’ve come across step by step, spearheaded by Kolvar, Sorn, myself and our newcomer, the delightful VVrayven. Rest assured that we’ll come to your pregnancy rules when its appropriate (we’re running a very structured schedule here) and include them in the final edition.VVrayven: My goodness, I’m used to dispensing compliments, not receiving them! Nevertheless, I’m glad you liked the draft edition I proposed, and unless anyone has revisions to make, we can get underway with the next stage of editing: I feel that circumstantial modifiers are quickly sorted, and serve to round out the core rather effectively.With regards your own contributions, the fundamental nature of kinks and turn-offs is good indeed, but as you say we could indeed do with a little bulking out. Check my comments on Bastoche’s writing for more details, but perhaps they should be generated randomly for a character, with some races having inherent kinks?To revert to the conceptual for a moment, I need to know whether we are operating a ‘sexual alignment’ system, a la the DbS conversion: a Drive of Abstinent, Moderant or Indulgent; and an Orientation of Homo, Bi-Homo, Bi, Bi-Hetero or Hetero; kinks would be used to build on this frame.And another question, this time of terminology. In the DbS conversion, Kinks were a catch-all term for Philias and Phobias. What are we going to use with regards the things people are aroused by, put off by, and (if anything) a term for both? Philias and Phobias intermesh with the terminology nicely, but are a little clinical; on the flip side, to use Turn-ons and Turn-offs is clear but a little colloquial or contemporary. What do people reckon? Are there any other options, or do you like either of the above?Bastoche: I feel that kinks don’t have too much of a balance issue, as they are both beneficial (in allowing for greater pleasure or dropping the ease of pleasure) and a weak point (too much ease getting aroused gives another person power over you, and a begative kink can hamper things soewhat and limit your choice of partner). I dilsike the feat option somewhat: too weak and too limited for anyone to consider taking. I heard some ideas floating around about Prowess being done as a Perform-esque skill, which would cater to deviant practices easily: each one is learnt as a different application of your Prowess bonus.This raises some concern as to the nature of Sex Tricks - as a skill addition, they don’t really conform to the ‘flavour’ of 3rd ed. As a feat, an awful lot of them pale somewhat. What stance are we going to take? I suppose we really need to address the issue of the Prowess skill. The two options that spring to mind are to have Prowess as a standard skill that gives Sex Tricks (as used in the NUCK), an open-ended skill with tricks used as feats (as used in the DbS) or, my present inclination, having it as Perform-esque, with particularly notable effects being codified as feats instead. Anyone?To put forward something of my own, I’ve assembled a few generic modifiers to Prowess check DCs:+4 when making more than one Prowess check in a round, cumulative for further checks+2 when subject of check is Fatigued+6 when subject of check is Exhausted+2 odd technique+5 very odd technique, or involving a Turn-on/Philia/Whatever that the person does not share+10 extremely odd technique, or involving a Turn-off/Phobia/Whatever of the person+total damage received in round if subject receives damage (lethal or subdual)-total damage received in round if subject is masochistic-total damage dealt in round if sunject is sadisticMost of these are rather general, and I’m bound to have missed something. Let me know what you think.Keep that feedback circulating, and may fate bless you with good ideas!Death By Surfeit</blockquote>

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