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[kol]

on the back of that last post.

what kind of character do/did you play at the LT and what kind of things do you think you should be able to do?

feel free to use as many first hand examples as you want, as long as they are characetrs that you have played.

I'll keep this one public so anyone can post, but I don't allow anons on this journal. sorry.

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[thewhitespider]

Hmm.... I could be persuaded that these are bad iadeas, but I think I want:

A lack of immunities - there are few things more frustrating than the realisation that you just can't hurt something. There are better ways to give things vulnerabilities.

To see the discrimination between sharp and blunt damage removed (except maybe in a few specific monsters.) I don't actually have a problem with the mechanic in itself - it's just the fact that it's become so common that it's stupid not to carry both blunt and sharp weapons. I understand I'm likely to be made happy by the new rules.

A flatter power level between players. Now, I really like the OSP system pretty much as it is* - most OSP's make you broader rather than outright harder. I grant that there are a few which give you an extra hit or an uprated damage call, but these pale into insignificance next to special effects from rituals

[kol]

mmm... fair points. Most of this thread is curiousity. My thing is the ref team.

but if there is a perception of cliqueyness then I may need to sort that out. Perhaps along with an explanation of what a ref is and how to complain about them.

[oneneoeno]

It sounds like the rule book should definitely contain a section about how the system is organised in an OOC manner - the role of senior refs, refs, marshalls, battle marshalls, plot teams, faction npcs, guild npcs, how they interact, and how one becomes part of them.

[thewhitespider]

Sounds like a good idea. Well, actually perhaps not the rulebook, because these are things which will be quite fluid, and you'd want to avoid releasing new versions of the rulebook to avoid confusion over whether the old rules were invalid. It might make more sense to have a Rulebook (with the OSP system taken into it), a Setting Book, and a How The LT Works Book

[thewhitespider]

Actually, I wrote a really long revised version of that comment, starting from "So, I just realised that didn't even touch on the question you asked..." But I'm posting from a naval base with horrifically slow computers (and I'm not just talking about the internet connection - the computers themselves are MMX Pentium 1's), the post got eaten by Livejournal, and I gave up.

I'm not sure there is a pervasive perception of cliqueiness, but it certainly couldn't help to have more information available about how things are run.

Incidentally, who is responsible for the website?

[kol]

phhh, not a clue.

even slightly.

I'd guess the same people responsible for the books...