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transmetahuman · 06-18-2009, 09:39 AM

Serendipity with Wishing is hard for me to get my mind around, I guess. Under GM control, plausibility is anything that has an explanation that holds together (whether or not the players ever learn it) - the guard is a telepath, has been reconsidering his career choice for a while, just found Jesus, recently developed a grudge against his employer, whatever. With Wishing, obviously the restraints have to be a bit tighter - but, really, any greatly fortuitous coincidence strains plausibility for me as a reader, so I'm at a loss to define boundaries beyond the GM ruling on a case-by-case basis "no, I don't want that to happen". If you're going to have an ability that circumvents that, there's really no fair point cost for it - it's basically saying "What's the point cost for me to be the GM?"

06-18-2009, 09:39 AM	#15
transmetahuman Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA, USA	Re: Will of the Gods, Help with Serendipity Serendipity with Wishing is hard for me to get my mind around, I guess. Under GM control, plausibility is anything that has an explanation that holds together (whether or not the players ever learn it) - the guard is a telepath, has been reconsidering his career choice for a while, just found Jesus, recently developed a grudge against his employer, whatever. With Wishing, obviously the restraints have to be a bit tighter - but, really, any greatly fortuitous coincidence strains plausibility for me as a reader, so I'm at a loss to define boundaries beyond the GM ruling on a case-by-case basis "no, I don't want that to happen". If you're going to have an ability that circumvents that, there's really no fair point cost for it - it's basically saying "What's the point cost for me to be the GM?"