From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sun Dec 19 21:28:05 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id VAA06291; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:19:44 +1300 Message-Id: <199912190819.VAA06291@mail.sf.org.nz> Received: from smtp1.ihug.co.nz (tk1.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.13]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id VAA06287 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:19:41 +1300 Received: from [206.18.99.200] (p8-max28.akl.ihug.co.nz [206.18.99.200]) by smtp1.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id VAA15260; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:12:05 +1300 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:16:03 +1300 Subject: Re: Hey You From: flamis@pop.ihug.co.nz (Jacqui Smith) To: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Precedence: bulk X-Loop: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a request to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. To unsubscribe from all lists on this site, send a request to all-request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz >Jacqui Smith wrote: >> >> >If Phaeton's a dove then it's the only one of it's kind armed with a light >> >ballista. >> >> "A rather blunt light ballista I think you'll find," Flamis chuckles. >> "Considering he's pacted to that Healer Power, so he's not actually allowed >> to kill anyone..." > >How did that healer power become such a wimp? He's most famous for >murdering his own son in a fit of jealousy. "Guilt, maybe? I dunno, the ways of powers are a mystery to me. Being not pacted myself and all." Flamis -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers -- From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sun Dec 19 21:28:27 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id VAA06299; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:20:01 +1300 Message-Id: <199912190820.VAA06299@mail.sf.org.nz> Received: from smtp1.ihug.co.nz (tk1.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.13]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id VAA06295 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:19:56 +1300 Received: from [206.18.99.200] (p8-max28.akl.ihug.co.nz [206.18.99.200]) by smtp1.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id VAA15285 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:12:22 +1300 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:16:20 +1300 Subject: Re: Hey You From: flamis@pop.ihug.co.nz (Jacqui Smith) To: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Precedence: bulk X-Loop: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a request to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. To unsubscribe from all lists on this site, send a request to all-request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz >Anyone is not such a broad catergory little girl. Once you throw in undead, >demons, manavores and so on he's still got a range of enemies. Oh, sorry >about the little girl remark. I have trouble remembering that people half my >hieght are not children. Don't you think I make a nice stone giantess? >Happened a few days ago. It's a far superior species. "But can you actually kill something that's dead already? Or was never alive? Or isn't even material?" "And I had noticed you'd grown up in the world. Hard not to notice actually. Did you used to have trouble with hobbits and so on? When you were human, that is?" Flamis -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers -- From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sun Dec 19 21:29:06 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id VAA06280; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:19:32 +1300 Message-Id: <199912190819.VAA06280@mail.sf.org.nz> Received: from smtp1.ihug.co.nz (tk1.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.13]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id VAA06276 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:19:21 +1300 Received: from [206.18.99.200] (p8-max28.akl.ihug.co.nz [206.18.99.200]) by smtp1.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id VAA15249 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:11:49 +1300 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:15:47 +1300 Subject: Re: Minutes from the Guild Meeting From: flamis@pop.ihug.co.nz (Jacqui Smith) To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Precedence: bulk X-Loop: dq@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a request to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. To unsubscribe from all lists on this site, send a request to all-request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz >Big world events are fine - but at least half the adventures should be in some >way involved with them (at least, if the event is this big) rather than, um, >zero. It might help if I tell people that I was informed that at least six of the adventures going out would involve the Dark Circle when I was assembling the Seagate Times. Which should have been about half... Would someone like to explain what happened? (I'd even done the ranking for Flamis on the assumption that she would be needed, that I'd need a med-high character ready. Instead I found that the only suitable adventure was med-low, so I'm playing Brigetta!) Jacqui -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers -- From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sun Dec 19 21:29:24 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id VAA06281; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:19:33 +1300 Message-Id: <199912190819.VAA06281@mail.sf.org.nz> Received: from smtp1.ihug.co.nz (tk1.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.13]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id VAA06271 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:19:15 +1300 Received: from [206.18.99.200] (p8-max28.akl.ihug.co.nz [206.18.99.200]) by smtp1.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id VAA15220 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:11:28 +1300 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:15:27 +1300 Subject: RE: Namer Draft Special Rituals From: flamis@pop.ihug.co.nz (Jacqui Smith) To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Precedence: bulk X-Loop: dq@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a request to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. To unsubscribe from all lists on this site, send a request to all-request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz >Well if you posit it should be in one college only, then clearly it must be >Namer. I'm not sure I understand why... >If Communication is your focus, then you must "translate" a lie for a lie. >Civilised communication is more to do with *avoiding* the truth than >forceably including it. However my initial comments, which Jacqui partially >quoted were wrong in that I had misunderstood the original write up. As >Martin clarified it [Fri 12/11/99 13:45], the intent was: > >The target must answer -- if they do not know the answer, that is still an >answer. >The target may not "take the fifth." >The target need only answer the question as put to them -- this is not a >compulsion to co-operate. What happens then if you combine this with the Bardic "Compel Speech" spell? Jacqui -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers -- From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sun Dec 19 23:28:05 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id XAA06930; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:14:03 +1300 Message-Id: <199912191014.XAA06930@mail.sf.org.nz> Received: from smtp2.ihug.co.nz (tk2.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.14]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id XAA06926 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:14:00 +1300 Received: from jimarona.ihug.co.nz (p32-tnt2.akl.ihug.co.nz [203.109.245.32]) by smtp2.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id XAA19242 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:06:25 +1300 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:04:37 +1300 Subject: Re: Hey You From: "Jim Arona" To: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Precedence: bulk X-Loop: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a request to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. To unsubscribe from all lists on this site, send a request to all-request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz -----Original Message----- From: Jacqui Smith To: dq-pub@dq.sf.org.nz Date: Sunday, 19 December 1999 21:28 Subject: Re: Hey You >>Jacqui Smith wrote: >>> >>> >If Phaeton's a dove then it's the only one of it's kind armed with a light >>> >ballista. >>> >>> "A rather blunt light ballista I think you'll find," Flamis chuckles. >>> "Considering he's pacted to that Healer Power, so he's not actually allowed >>> to kill anyone..." >> >>How did that healer power become such a wimp? He's most famous for >>murdering his own son in a fit of jealousy. > >"Guilt, maybe? I dunno, the ways of powers are a mystery to me. Being not >pacted myself and all." > >Flamis > >Apollo! - Jacqui> > Apollo? Oi. Jim -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers -- From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sun Dec 19 23:28:22 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id XAA06920; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:13:13 +1300 Message-Id: <199912191013.XAA06920@mail.sf.org.nz> Received: from smtp2.ihug.co.nz (tk2.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.14]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id XAA06916 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:13:09 +1300 Received: from jimarona.ihug.co.nz (p32-tnt2.akl.ihug.co.nz [203.109.245.32]) by smtp2.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id XAA19133 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:05:22 +1300 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:03:32 +1300 Subject: Re: Minutes from the Guild Meeting From: "Jim Arona" To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Precedence: bulk X-Loop: dq@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a request to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. To unsubscribe from all lists on this site, send a request to all-request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz Jacqui Smith wrote: > >It might help if I tell people that I was informed that at least six of the >adventures going out would involve the Dark Circle when I was assembling >the Seagate Times. Which should have been about half... > >Would someone like to explain what happened? > >(I'd even done the ranking for Flamis on the assumption that she would be >needed, that I'd need a med-high character ready. Instead I found that the >only suitable adventure was med-low, so I'm playing Brigetta!) > This is irrelevant, really. You can rank your character anyway you like, and it's always going to be an open question as to what abilities are going to be useful on your next adventure. This season, the players got more warning than on previous ones, if your post is anything to go by. If you take advantage of the information on that basis, all well and good. If it pans out, fine, you reap such rewards that attentiveness to the game world offers. If it doesn't pan out, that's just tough. You take that risk. There is no sure thing. It seems to me that players don't have any idea how to rank for their character in the usual course of events. You, and others that took advantage of the situation got a break in that direction, this season. You cannot expect to be told what sorts of things you need to advance for your character. It has never been the case in the past, with the exception of a very few games. Why should this situation be any different? Jim. -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers --