[projectaon] Re: 01gstw WP footnotes (and small illistrations)
- From: Thomas Wolmer <angantyr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:42:37 +0200
2005/8/16, Jonathan Blake <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 7/23/05, Thomas Wolmer <angantyr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think we may want to present the two proposed methods for dealing
> with unavoidable WP loss (by trading EP for WP or by going into
> negative WP) and let the reader decide when to use them. I can't think
> of an authoritative reason to choose one or the other, and I'd feel
> better giving the readers guidance and letting them choose something
> that they're comfortable with.
Hm, no it wasn't meant to prohibit the "continue subtracting WP"
method. The big fat Game Rules footnote I proposed look like this (and
it's basically the same as the one we put in 04wotw):
"There are sections of this book that describe how you use a Magical
Power and how many WILLPOWER points you spend, without giving you a
choice and without taking into account that you may not have the
required number of WILLPOWER points left. Section 175 of War of the
Wizards contains one such case of mandated use of magic, but it also
provides a method for resolving this problem: If you do not have
enough WILLPOWER points then you must use ENDURANCE points at a rate
of 2 ENDURANCE points for every 1 WILLPOWER point you lack (i.e. 2
ENDURANCE points = 1 WILLPOWER point).
You may wish to use this method to resolve this problem in similar
situations. If your ENDURANCE score falls to zero, you are dead and
the adventure is over.
Note that you may not choose to use a Magical Power or your Wizard's
Staff if you do not have sufficient WILLPOWER points. This method also
cannot be used in cases where you lose WILLPOWER points for a reason
other than using magic, for instance as a result of mental or magical
attacks. In these cases, you may end up with a negative WILLPOWER
score."
Should we add an "Alternatively, you may choose to subtract the
WILLPOWER points, giving you ... " ...well, something, I don't trust
my grasp of English to be able to formulate "possibly even more
negative" in a clear way?
(And change this in 04wots too.)
> > Then there's all the cases where you may not have sufficient WP. The
> > standard footnote will be:
> >
> > "If you do not have sufficient WILLPOWER points, you may choose the
> > method used in Section 175 of War of the Wizards for resolving this
> > problem: For the WILLPOWER points you lack, you must use ENDURANCE
> > points at a rate of 2 ENDURANCE points for every 1 WILLPOWER point
> > (i.e. 2 ENDURANCE points = 1 WILLPOWER point)."
>
> Is there a reason to avoid the negative WP method?
Nope. The same addendum as to the big footnote then, whatever it
should look like.
> > And one final question: The <creator class="short"> and <creator
> > class="medium"> tags in the XML file aren't used for anything, are
> > they?
>
> Not in our XHTML versions, no. But they are used in the LaTeX version
> (which is used to create the PDF versions). I hope we'll get back to
> creating PDFs one day. The only reason we quit was due to lack of
> volunteer time and LaTeX skill.
OK. Well, I have corrected in the tags where needed in all the GS books already.
--
Thomas
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