[Torg] Mixed Zones: A New Interpretation

[Dominick Riesland]

It's not really necessary, as the Darkness Device is probably keeping
enough track of the cosm to realize that a stelae is at risk, and as
such will advise the High Lord to send whatever forces can be spared
to respond.

Dominick Riesland, aka Rabbitball
Creator of the Cosmversal Grimoire
"There are always possibilities, my sergeant told me. But he never had
his possibilities torn away like wings from a fly."



On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Curtis Turner <curtis at curtisturner.com> wrote:
> An interesting thought is to simply take the Darkness Devices out of the
> equation.
>
> I'm not fully up on canon today, however simply require agents of the DD for
> placement of, activation of, and destruction of Stelae. Require they be
> P-rated,
> just as SK's are when out to destroy a Stelae. The High Lord/DD will reap
> the
> benefits, but remove their long range "control" over them. That is, any
> control
> beyond  the HL/DD keeping trusted agents stationed nearby to safeguard the
> at-risk/vulnerable to attack Stelae.
>
> It even builds in an encounter for your players should they go after any
> random Stelae.
>
> If you want to get fancy you can adjust difficulty for affecting Stelae
> based on
> interior, border, or "mixed" realities.
>
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Travis James Hall wrote:
>>>
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>>> James Knevitt
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>>> Subject: Re: [Torg] Mixed Zones: A New Interpretation
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM, <travisjhall at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure they could -- they do it all the time, and yet Storm
>>>> Knights still have a pretty good shot at uprooting a stelae
>>>> regardless.
>>
>> Which indicates that the PE a DD can exert upon a stelae isn't completely
>> overwhelming, and still leaves no reason for it to be greater when it's
>> someone else's stelae.
>>
>>> I would run it as an invoked reality storm between the two
>>> Darkness Devices, with a distance from the nearest bridge
>>> being a factor for both attacker and defender.
>>
>> Distance measured how? Actually distance, or number of zones? Because if
>> number of zones, remember that you are talking about jumping from one
>> network to another, so there aren't any actual zones between them.
>>
>> Also, shouldn't the connected DD get a big advantage for having the stelae
>> in a network that is built for channelling PE? Even DDs can't normally
>> invoke reality storms at large distances. They can't even use their full
>> reality skill to defend any but the very closest stelae.
>>
>> Not to mention the fact that having connected stelae is not all that
>> determines the nature of a zone. Producing a normal invader-reality
>> dominant
>> or pure zone requires having a certain number of supporters for that
>> reality
>> within the zone. The stelae network just bounds the area off from the
>> reality of the local cosm, to make reality changes possible. Perhaps a
>> huge
>> enough expenditure of PE could shift the reality of a zone without
>> supporters, but it certainly doesn't sound like the sort of exercise that
>> would make a PE profit for a DD, especially if the resulting zone is
>> mixed.
>>
>> Also, you haven't addressed the issue of why the DDs want to create mixed
>> zones. As I said, they don't generate PE for the DDs. They do cost PE to
>> create and maintain. So, why?
>>
>> I just don't think you've thought through all the implications of your
>> idea.
>>
>>>>        Now, you can change the base assumptions if you just
>>>> want more mixed zones, but in that case, just justify it by
>>>> saying "I want more mixed zones," not "Here's why the canon
>>>> makes no sense."
>>>
>>> Why not? It's not like there aren't other places where the
>>> canon is totally incongruous with itself.
>>
>> Maybe so, but that's still not reason to make up problems where they don't
>> exist. It's not that canon is sacred and beyond question, just that if
>> you're going to assert that there's a problem in need of fixing, you
>> should
>> identify an actual problem.
>>
>> Travis
>>
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