Gates, Gate keys, and Gate locks

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Originally Posted by Steve Jackson

If I had a player as interested as you, the end result would probably be a couple of pages of house rules, called the Liber Portorum or something of the sort. But I *know* that you can come up with cases like those faster than I can one-shot consistent replies. Do you have a general solution?

I don't - I think it would be really hard to make gates that are useful and fun without also making gate networks "Turing complete", i.e. a gate network is a computer. Computation is so fundamental to reality that is surprising how little you need to make a computer.

I like gates. They have always been one of the coolest things about TFT!

How technological Cidri ends up feeling will be entirely up to GMs. You can't -- and shouldn't -- try to stop it.

Also, Cidri is so huge and magic is so dangerous and volatile that there will always be room for any published campaigns and materials, even on a totally whacked-out Cidri, because empires will always be falling!