01-31-2019, 08:46 PM | #11 | |
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Re: How would it feel to gain XP?
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I tried a few runs of the shuttle on an inkle loom. It gave me the same satisfactory sensation as a candy. Even as I realized I'm not interested in doing more work on one. I get a feeling not unlike mild intoxication while doing research, and have all my life. I know others with similar reactions. In fact, the hardest part of working in the National Archives was not stopping to read all the filed minutiae. That job was like a drug... except for customers. |
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02-01-2019, 06:13 AM | #12 |
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: How would it feel to gain XP?
Not quite on topic but in a GURPS game in which we were designing/discovering magic as we went along we ended up saying that a person's stock of saved xp was a real thing that a spell could detect. This was so that the PC wizards could explain why sometimes giving a person a new Advantage or curing a Disadvantage caused an equal and opposite loss elsewhere and sometimes just happened without cost.
We called it Fate I think or perhaps it was Karma. Yes, it was a very weird game.
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02-01-2019, 07:13 AM | #13 | |
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Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: How would it feel to gain XP?
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In one of the Low-Tech volumes, probably LTC1, I suggested that a critical failure on a Research roll meant "You find a totally fascinating book or article on something that has nothing to do with your original question."
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02-01-2019, 08:19 AM | #14 |
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Re: How would it feel to gain XP?
There has been a number of times in my life where, one day, I struggled with a concept/skill/language, and the next day didn't. Those instances usually resulted in a short term (a few hours or so) 'high'.
I think the closest I felt to actually europhic in a personal improvement was the day I paid off a significant debt. That high lasted three or four months. |
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02-25-2019, 04:53 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Heartland, U.S.A.
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Re: How would it feel to gain XP?
How has no one mentioned “the quicken”? (HIGHLANDER reference)
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