02-03-2014, 12:34 PM | #181 | |
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I'm not sure this is a good idea. The potential for abuse is so great that the GM must engage in overt metagaming, just to keep it under control.
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02-03-2014, 03:49 PM | #183 | |
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02-04-2014, 06:12 PM | #184 | |
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This is a magical device that grows equipment out of scrap parts or other resources. Since it functions by magic, I'd say anything that disrupts magic disrupts it, as opposed to an EMP. However, the outcome strongly resembles dry nanotech, so many of the problems with the in-game abuse of dry nanotech also applies to this, I'd think. About the only thing that prevents those abuses is a sort of "GM fiat" by way of saying, "the spirits don't like it." It's the sort of heavy-handed GM intervention that happens in campaigns, sometimes, which I find rather inelegant. Frankly, I think the "gizmos" advantage works just fine, for most "small-but-clever" devices (and allows for characters such as James West, as portrayed by Robert Conrad), while preventing a campaign from getting out of control because the magi-tech is too powerful, or has too many unfortunate implications. That's just my take though, and part of it is due to the fact that, while I really do enjoy exploration of the social and cultural conflicts inherent in this setting, I really don't like supers games. Were I to use this setting, I'd back the power levels down a notch or three. More pulp, less four-color, with people such as the Vampire Slayer, Doc Savage, Steve Rogers, Kent Allard, Fu Manchu, Merlin from the movie "Excalibur," and James Moriarity defining the high end of the power scale. No Kal-El, and no Lantern rings.
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02-04-2014, 07:29 PM | #185 | |
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02-06-2014, 09:33 AM | #186 | |
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There's not need for a GM fiat to avoid a 'bronze goo' scenario, the GM fiat is needed to make them fast enough to be useful.
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02-06-2014, 12:16 PM | #187 |
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Hey, no problem. Those were just my thoughts.
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02-06-2014, 04:34 PM | #188 | |
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Yeah, sorry. Didn't want to look like I was loosing my temper, but it seemed like you were ignoring the first time I said it, or like you'd just missed it.
Also, it seems to be a slight hot-button issue with me, at least since I found out that the nightmare grey goo scenario had been so very exaggerated. On another note, an entry from the timeline, in the hope that historical scholars here might be able to answer a question: Quote:
When you imagine the Day Ward and Night Watch, do note where she's getting her information from. Arthur's ambassadors are outsiders to everyone, and only have long experience with the Roman groups. They've observed the Metropolitan Police, and reported it to the scribes on Fa-Earth, and it's from those reports that the ambassador to Clp-Britannia learned about the Met, and described them to Her Majesty. On the bright side, they do at least have the concept of 'professional detectives' and 'crime-scene technicians'. On the first part of that entry, I'm wondering if the date of 'Quick Hand' should be moved, but I can easily see Bobby having the poor taste to pick that day for his rampage.
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02-06-2014, 06:03 PM | #189 |
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Seems legit to me. McVeigh deliberately picked April 19th for his attack for similar reasons.
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02-07-2014, 06:20 AM | #190 |
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Hey Charon have you talked with anyone here about the worldline data you showed me in a PM on SB?
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