[projectaon] The Grey Star business
- From: Thomas Wolmer <angantyr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:04:13 +0200
Alright, I have now updated the XML files (being checked in as this is
sent) with the non-contested footnotes and small illustration changes.
Among the contested ones, here are my new proposed footnotes for
the out-of-WP issue:
Footnote in the Game Rules:
"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. You may choose to simply
subtract the specified number of WILLPOWER points, even though your
WILLPOWER score may be negative even before the subtraction.
Alternatively, you may may wish to use a method given in Section 175
of War of the Wizards, which contains one such case of mandated use of
magic: If you do not have enough WILLPOWER points, then you 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). If your
ENDURANCE score falls to zero, you are dead and the adventure is over.
Note that you may never <em>choose</em> 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."
--
Footnote in sections where you out of the blue are told that you a
Magical Power or your Staff:
"If you do not have sufficient WILLPOWER points, you may choose to
simply subtract the specified number of WILLPOWER points, even though
your WILLPOWER score may be negative even before the subtraction.
Alternatively, 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 use ENDURANCE points at a rate of 2 ENDURANCE points for
every 1 WILLPOWER point (i.e. 2 ENDURANCE points = 1 WILLPOWER
point)."
--
Footnote in sections where you are forced to choose to use a Magical
Power or your Staff:
"You are forced to choose to use a Magical Power, even though all the
Powers that are available to you may require you to use more WILLPOWER
points than you currently possess. If you do not have sufficient
WILLPOWER points, you may choose to simply subtract the number of
WILLPOWER points required to use the Power you select, even though
your WILLPOWER score may be negative even before the subtraction.
Alternatively, 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 use ENDURANCE points at a rate of 2 ENDURANCE points for
every 1 WILLPOWER point (i.e. 2 ENDURANCE points = 1 WILLPOWER
point)."
Then there's the tricky Section 37 of 02tfc. Note that unlike the
two other paths from the previous "circular cave", here you are told
you are climbing upwards, so from a geographical point of view you
may be somewhere up in a mountain above the Desolation Valley.
> The "light of the full moon" business must be a mistake unless this
> really isn't a cave. I know this is somewhat drastic, but how about
> either dropping the full moon stuff (which would make this not match
> small7 or changing the text to read (instead of "cave"):
>
> "You walk along the west passage. It rises steadily and eventually
> opens into a small (canyon | gorge | chasm | ravine | valley)."
>
> and
>
> "You search the (canyon | gorge | chasm | ravine | valley) and find a
> Silver Knife."
>
> Another option would be to somehow mention that the cave itself opens
> up to this chasm which would make more sense that you search the cave
> and not the entire chasm, now that I think about it. Maybe this would
> be the best option.
Yep, deleting "Beneath the light of the full moon you see miles and
miles of contorted rock." would be a quite small operation that would
solve the worst problems. "It looks as if it has been melted in a
furnace." could remain? small7 would have to go somewher else - in
fact it fits perfectly in Section 245 (but if we ever implement the
multiple occurances of the large illustrations, Illustration III would
go here).
Replacing "cave" with "gorge" would be somewhat OK, though small7
seems to show something larger than a gorge that can be quickly
searched.
And finally, there's the option to add something like "Through a crack
in the northern cave wall you catch a glimpse of a desolate plain far
below." This would also require a paragraph break before "You find the
skeletal remains of several bodies ...".
Finally, there's small1 of 02tfc. I'm now leaning more towards the
Mind Gem (174/292, 266, 282, 305) than a bold from your Staff, but if
it's really the Staff I want to remove it from Section 132.
--
Thomas
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