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<LI><em>From</em>: Maddy <<A HREF="mailto:maddy#fysh,org">maddy#fysh,org</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:28:14 +0100 (BST)</LI>
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Previously, Nathan Yospe wrote....
> On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
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> :On Wednesday, September 24, 1997 4:48 AM, Maddy [SMTP:maddy#fysh,org]
> :wrote:
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> :> There could be a religion that requires its members to kill
> :> anyone with blond hair.
>
> :There could be all sorts of things. What exactly does this religion add to
> :the game? Ummm... pissed off players and roving groups of antisocial dorks.
> :Maybe we should do something different.
>
> The most fun I've ever had on any game was engineering an escape from just
> such a horde (donut cult), where said horde was played by other gamers. The
> most fun on a mud was in defending my own Order of the Dew against a
> bloodthirsty lot of wargod worshippers. Sounds like there are exceptions to
> your own preferences. Ever stop to think that maybe YOU are trying to lump
> ALL players into your own mold, as much as any of the rest of us are trying
> to lump OUR MUD'S players into our molds? Lay off the righteous trip already,
> it is starting to piss me off.
<cheek position="in tongue">Could this be another idea for a mud
religion?</cheek>
> :> Well the problem is, is that all your balance problems seem to be based
> :upon
> :> XP/Level based systems and they don't really make sense if you don't have
> :> either of them. I'm sure that I'll have loads of balance problems to
> :start
> :> with, which is why I'm going to take most of my system from an already
> :> stable PnP system.
>
> :I'm basing my examples on level/XP based systems because it's relatively
> :certain that we all understand how those work. I could always base it on
> :the attribute/skill based system White Wolf uses, but that's very MUSHlike
> :and people would complain. I could also base it on Amber diceless, but
> :people would still complain. I could base it on Man, Myth, and Magic which
> :had a dozen nationalities and a hundred odd skills and sixty some classes,
> :but I don't think anyone here has any experience with it. What *should* I
> :target toward? 'Level' is a generic term we all understand. Race, class,
> :experience, spell, we all understand what these mean. There IS an
> :equivalent in your system, regardless of how you classify it. Ars Magica
> :doesn't really *need* a canned spellbook; you can do anything you like,
> :magic is infinitely mutable, and really a 'spell' ought to be a foreign
> :concept under this system. But there ARE established 'standard' magic uses,
> :because people demanded them -- thus, they are spells just like any other
> :game might have.
>
> Unless I misremember, Maddy had his own developed PnP? In any case, there is
> not going to be an analogous concept in any game. Certainly, the analogy is
> tenuous at best for my system, nonexistant for JCL's...
I think you may have misremembered - my GM has developed his PnP (Lucky13)
but at the moment I've not really thought much about exactly what system
I'll use although I was originally planning on using RuneQuest. Lucky13 is
very similiar to RuneQuest anyway, so it's only when I get down to the finer
details will I have to make up my mind.
Either way you're right - the similarities are few & far between.
Maddy
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Usability and interface</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01473" HREF="msg01473.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Usability and interface</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 26 Sep 1997, 05:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01520" HREF="msg01520.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Usability and interface</A></strong>,
Alex Oren <a href="mailto:alexo#bigfoot,com">alexo#bigfoot,com</a>, Sun 28 Sep 1997, 15:35 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01466" HREF="msg01466.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Usability and interface</A></strong>,
Travis Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#polaris,net">efindel#polaris,net</a>, Fri 26 Sep 1997, 00:10 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01483" HREF="msg01483.html">[MUD-Dev] Usability and interface</A></strong>,
Maddy <a href="mailto:maddy#fysh,org">maddy#fysh,org</a>, Fri 26 Sep 1997, 13:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01488" HREF="msg01488.html">[MUD-Dev] Usability and interface</A></strong>,
Maddy <a href="mailto:maddy#fysh,org">maddy#fysh,org</a>, Fri 26 Sep 1997, 14:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01504" HREF="msg01504.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Usability and interface</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sat 27 Sep 1997, 06:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01515" HREF="msg01515.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Usability and interface</A></strong>,
Travis Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#polaris,net">efindel#polaris,net</a>, Sat 27 Sep 1997, 23:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01323" HREF="msg01323.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Types of game</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Sat 20 Sep 1997, 19:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01334" HREF="msg01334.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Types of game</A></strong>,
Travis Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#polaris,net">efindel#polaris,net</a>, Sun 21 Sep 1997, 02:24 GMT
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