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(Date Posted:10/02/2005 14:21:21)
Exploit weakness in it self was never a problem to me. What is became a problem was the fact that it was too easy to make it mostly worthless, due to the fact, that there are far to many schools, both the published, and the prodigious amount of fan-made ones. EW easily becomes a hole into which players have to sink points while not really gaining anything from it.There have been several suggestions on these fora for changes, and quite a few for workarounds (one I have always liked was simply tomostlyrestrict yourself (as a gamemaster) to the main nation schools from the players Guide, on the other hand, this is, however, an unsatisfactory restriction to place on oneself, there are many fun schools, and the master is the only one who can really pick and choose among them.My idea (which I had while showering this morning, always a good time to think) was first to create a sort of matrix, delineating how the EW of each school would interact. I then realised how ridiculously HUGE this matrix would become... Then I remembered and old topic on the boards, where someone (I admit I can't remember who, and I haven't the time to search atm.) suggested replacing all EWs with a short number of knacks, e.g. EW (patterned) or EW (aggressive) and I thought, what if you combine the two, and with a rememberance from a certain other game it struck me: you create alignments for the schools, and then you find some way of describing how these alignments interact... my suggestions for alignments run over two axis, aggressive-defensive, and wild-patterned. (my immediate thought is that you can be neutral on one or the other axis, but not both, there is no such thing as a fully balanced martial art) an exploit weakness could then for example be: EW (Eisenfaust - defensive patterned) and you could then gain full bonus if your opponent has the same weakness, i.e. defensive patterned, a smaller bonus ifit has a EW with the same alignment, an even smaller bonus ifit has one alignment component in common with Eisenfaust.Together with this idea also runs my idea, that EW should be used as EW-opponents mastery level. (actually this opens for simply allowing people to use two EWs against Grand masters at once, this gives only a max result of two unkept dice (which hopefully for you at this level should have a reasonable chance of converting to kept)well, what do you think?
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Lord Nabu
Cand.theol
Pater Familias
Grande de Gajol
Commander of the Mammuth
Grandmaster
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