[Amber DRPG] Plans / Discussion

[Thanee]

Yeah, I don't want to cut it off completely, I'm just a bit worried about the scope.

And I'm absolutely not worried about skills, but rather those powers, which take a lot of preparation time as a kind of balancing factor (i.e. Sorcery and Conjuration), which is completely negated this way. You could easily prepare hundreds of spells and conjure hundreds of items within a minute then. Or heal your wounds, even regenerate lost body parts, all within a minute of real time. And you could do that everytime it's not in some way impossible to use these powers. And that it what it would lead to IMHO, that the powers would be impossible to use a lot, so it doesn't get too easy. And there's the point with the arbitrary decisions, which I do not really like. I prefer to have most powers work most of the time, since it's kinda boring if you have a power and cannot make use of it.

One of the "problems" there is the ability to trump to such a place instantly. If it takes time to get there, that's a limit by itself, which will often prevent this, but if you can really get there and back instantly... I guess it would be reasonable to make such trump contacts difficult, since it is even preceded, that trump contacts are not working properly with such a difference in time flow. Of course, Advanced Pattern will not have such a restriction and then we are back at the beginning.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Baron Opal]

True, prep time can be a big issue. However, you can only have relativly few spells prepared at a given time. I think three if you have an Amber level Psyche. Stuff, yeah, you can get any kind of stuff that you want. I don't think that you can get powered items via conjuring, can you?

But, yes, it can be a problem when it is abused. The one time I ran it though, it wasn't an issue. Which may be because no one thought of it.

Baron Opal

 

[Thanee]

You can conjure up pretty much everything you can buy with points, not the real powers, of course, just creatures and items.

For example, you could conjure up spell containers, where you can store hundreds or thousands of spells given enough (plenty ) time.

Not going into the advanced sections, you could even have each of those spells conjure up an army of faithful warriors all with Amber rank attributes, when combining Sorcery and Conjuration.

Bye
Thanee

 

[yangnome]

I haven't read the books, though both the books and the game concepts have intrigued me for some time. I guess I'll need to pick them up and read them. i'd be interested in playing this as well. Whether or not I play Thanee, if you want, you can use my message boards to run the game; they have everythign you need. I can also set up blogs for player diaries and photo galleries as needed. You know where to find me, as time gets closer to playing, let me know and I'll set it up for you if you like.

 

[Thanee]

Get those books! They are absolutely marvellous (the first five at least).

And thanks for the offer. I'll get back to it, if I'm not going to make my own forums (don't even have my own site yet ).

Bye
Thanee

P.S. [OFF TOPIC] I guess it's safe to assume, that this modern game does not really get off then? Admittedly, I havn't put too much effort in there myself, mostly because it didn't really look like there was much progress, tho. If it will, I can be ready within a week for sure.

 

[yangnome]

P.S. [OFF TOPIC] I guess it's safe to assume, that this modern game does not really get off then? Admittedly, I havn't put too much effort in there myself, mostly because it didn't really look like there was much progress, tho. If it will, I can be ready within a week for sure.

not right now. I had a few people who expressed interest, but only one or two really worked on character concepts and even then, participation was sporadic. I've kept the forums, though they are now hidden. I may try to run this again some time in the future. If I do, I'll let you and the others know before trying to scare up more participants.