[projectaon] Re: 14tcok erratum
- From: "David Davis" <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:44:21 +0100
as far as I can recall,
Joe Dever introduced/explained the Special Item limit in a Lone Wolf Club
Newsletter
by saying "it just didn't seem realistic to be carrying all those goodies
around"
(and that this influenced the "progressive encumbrance" aspect of the
Freeway Warrior rules)
You may already have looked into this, but could the statuette (notice the
"-ette") not
perhaps be just a little minature? cf. the Effigy of the Akraa Neonor from
Ikaya?
And if it is made of a light stone (as opposed to granite or sthg) it could
be both, say,
palm-sized and pretty light. In which case, your backpack may be the most
sensible
place to put it, but Dever might conceed it wouldn't merit taking up space.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Osborne" <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:39 PM
Subject: [projectaon] Re: 14tcok erratum
Thomas Wolmer wrote:
2008/10/21 Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Jonathan Blake wrote:
My recommendation is that we standardize on the following:
"If you wish to keep this Statuette of _____, mark it on your Action
Chart as a Special Item which you keep in your Backpack. If you
already carry the maximum number of Special Items allowed, you must
discard one item in its favour."
But if it is a Special Item stored in the Backpack, why discard another
Special Item in its favour, since other Special Items are /not/ stored
in
the Backpack?
Well, why is there a limit on Special Items at all, and why do some
very small ones count against this limit while some don't? :-)
I'm afraid that there is no item-logistical logic here, only game
mechanisms.
I don't buy it! :-p
If you kept this in your pocket (you'd need very big pockets and) you'd
have to discard whatever was already in your pocket. If you keep it in
your Backpack, it shouldn't count toward your Special Items limit because
it isn't taking up any "space" that has been allocated for other Special
Item storage, IMHO. If anything, you should need to discard a Backpack
Item if you're already carrying 10 to fit the statuette in there--but that
starts getting unnecessarily confusing. Surely it's better to remove the
source of the confusion.
--
Simon Osborne
Project Aon
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