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09-09-2006, 09:39 PM #51
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Not the point. Glossaries and clear definitions are useless if the words themselves keep getting confused in people's minds. And by your own admission and endless support comments, they do.
I thought we were here to improve the material in all aspects, and not be slaves to previous concepts that didn't work optimally. Choice of game terms should be one of those considerations, I'd think.
Originally Posted by geeman
I have no problem with folk disagreeing with me- hell, I hope someone does, or there isn't enough thought going into it.
No one likes being dismissed. If I unloaded... well, tough.
("cunning linguist"- that one never gets old. And when a cunning linguist becomes enclitic... someone usually gets slapped. Or lucky.)
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09-10-2006, 04:06 AM #52Originally Posted by Cuchulainshound
And, no, geeman and irdeggman are both wrong, as all people with a bloodline have blue blood by default.
Seriously, now, that's why I mentioned: "IF we HAD;" in other words, should people come around and say: "You know, strength and score can actually be quite confusing, so we want something different than these two," an idea would be to use potency instead of strength.
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09-10-2006, 06:33 AM #53
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> ...or more clinical:
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> Bloodline Strength could be "Blood Pressure"
> Bloodline Score could be "Blood Count"
> Bloodline Derivation could be "Blood Type"
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Is it bad that I really like these? Should I have myself checked out? Or
checked in?
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09-10-2006, 10:00 AM #54
At 09:06 PM 9/9/2006, RaspK_FOG wrote:
>And, no, geeman and irdeggman are both wrong, as all people with a
>bloodline have blue blood by default.
Well, then I think we`ve got it covered. Bloodline Score can be red
(as in strong, red-blooded...) Bloodline Strength blue (as in the
strength of their bloodline coming from ancestors) while bloodline
derivation remains the standard black. Ipso-factor, pass the color
toner cartridge.
>Seriously, now, that`s why I mentioned: "IF we HAD;" in other words,
>should people come around and say: "You know, strength and score can
>actually be quite confusing, so we want something different than
>these two," an idea would be to use potency instead of strength.
At 11:28 PM 9/9/2006, Lord Rahvin wrote:
>>Bloodline Strength could be "Blood Pressure"
>>Bloodline Score could be "Blood Count"
>>Bloodline Derivation could be "Blood Type"
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>Is it bad that I really like these? Should I have myself checked
>out? Or checked in?
Just don`t try to explain the concept to the nurse with the
hypodermic needle next time you donate blood. They`ll flag your file.
Gary
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09-10-2006, 04:45 PM #55Originally Posted by geeman
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09-11-2006, 03:16 AM #56
At 09:45 AM 9/10/2006, RaspK_FOG wrote:
>>Just don`t try to explain the concept to the nurse with the
>>hypodermic needle next time you donate blood. They`ll flag your file.
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> Good thing you mentioned that, for I am about to donate blood in
>a couple of days. *rofl*
The last time I gave blood I actually looked around the room at all
the supine people with tubes running out of them and those who were
eating their complementary cookies and I thought, "Wow, look at all
the potential awnsheghlien in this room...." Some people carry their
totem right their on their faces, so you could see how this one would
turn into a macabre, ghostly white skeletor creature with huge claws,
that one would be some monstrous blob who enveloped his victims,
while another was clearly some sort of freakish crabman. The nurses,
of course, were slave/disciples of some epic villain draining the
lifeblood of the populace for the components to call forth the
reincarnation of Azrai from the Lake of Blood. I kept the idea mum, though.
Got to get to work on the Birthright D20 Modern sourcebook....
Gary
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04-13-2020, 06:19 PM #57
I know this is an old post but maybe useful for somebody who is searching answer:
In our campaign (running already for 3 years) it is allowed to buy bloodline: price is 1GB/score. It is very useful when we want to make a vassal/regent from an unblooded NPC follower.
Of course as we play this campaign since soooo long we already work with 3-8 NPC/PC. :-) The original PCs are going adventuring only rarely because they are busy in domain-buildings and longterm plans. Usually one of our NPCs adventuring and gaining XP instead of us. So we can enjoy "epic" political game and also simple adventures with the thrill of the beginners. :-)
Have a nice game for everyone!
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04-15-2020, 03:11 PM #58
I, for one, welcome the necro because this has been very interesting to read!
--Give me ambiguity or give me something else!--
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04-22-2020, 10:29 AM #59
In my mind the time when thread necro is wrong, is when you are commenting (particularly negatively) about an older post and the other person isn't around to defend themselves - or when the topic is obsolete, which isn't very likely on br.net.
selling bloodlines is an interesting one.
I can well see wealthy merchants, adventurers, etc marrying into a bloodline, which is effectively buying a bloodline for their children).
The blatant 'filthy lucre' approach is in my mind one that would be seen as socially repugnant however, the clergy doing the investiture ceremony are, after all, being asked to transfer the essence of a god (possibly their own god's precurser) which has major theological implications, while bloodlines = right to rule is probably a social more that came to dominate very early on as the blooded families displaced non-blooded nobles.
But of course there are always corrupt clergy and desperate nobles down on their luck and perhaps ignorant of just how intrinsic to their being the spark of godhood running in their veins is.
I played with the idea of a noble who sold their bloodline when I wrote PS Dhoesone, the idea being that Marcus Hollowman sold his bloodline while down on his luck and was then driven mad by the gnawing absence in his soul.
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