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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3799617" data-attributes="member: 29014">I think Mastery of the Mind died a horrible death/became renamed because it became redundant with the new stuff that also has a Comprehend effect.  Don't worry about it--the Comprehend should be on the speech Emotion Control now, and I believe it is.The reason why Lesser Polyglot is in powers is because she doesn't actually speak the languages without the power, and I'm going to build up on it when I get more points until it becomes a total Comprehend, but it makes no sense to do that with real skill points because those represent actually learning the languages (in other words, if I upgraded to full Comprehension by reusing the same points put into the normal language skill, it would be like unlearning the languages, which is weird).  Plus, she can use Extra Effort to speak other languages with those and exhaust herself, which just seems cool to me.The Judges make up half the active PCs in LS that aren't me (at least, from what I've seen anyway).  Don't worry--I told Bront the fluff.  You can grok the character if you know that her archetype/concept is enchantress/sorceress with a Circe theme (kind of like the Resolute Pandora has a sort of Pandora theme <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).  [SBLOCK=Musings on Forcing Public Judge Knowledge of Character Backstories] Sierra is significantly less fun to play if she can't be mysterious.  And metagamed ignorance for the sake of consistency is never as fun for anyone as real ignorance (One exchange between Archeville and Sierra was one of my favourites ever in LS, actually, and it stems from the dramatic irony I got from the info D.A. was missing).  This is something I do in LEW, actually, and no other judges have had a problem with it--I mean, I have a concept.  It's a strongly fluffy one, and I plan on roleplaying it heavily, but I just don't want to tell anyone more than necessary (in LEW, my characters' histories have never been listed to anyone, here I did tell Bront to make sure the background was legit for LS, and it was).  I think if you asked people in LEW (particularly in her current adventure) if my character Lasair had a strong personality, backstory, etc, the answer would be a resounding yes.  I guess what I'm saying is--as long as the backstory is allowable, why should anyone need to know it except me, as I slowly reveal it (and in Lasair's case, bits and pieces have been revealed over the OOC years such that it would be possible to determine much of her backstory to a careful reader)?  I'll end with a strong point, since a lot of the above was opinion--Sierra's backstory is a spoiler for Ionian Dreams, which has a judge as a player.  It is also a spoiler for my really really cool follow-up to Ionian Dreams that I hope to run if we finish ID.  Spoilers to fun plot twists and stories of my adventures are dealbreakers for me--I would rather not run an adventure at all than run an adventure that contained one or more characters whose players have the adventure spoiled[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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