On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Rupert Boleyn wrote: > Anthony Jackson wrote: > > > One. It implies that about 14% of the general population has the gene. > > > > Now, the reason you are stuck at only 2% is harder to guess. There has > > to be some evolutionary disadvantage associated with the magery gene, or > > you'd eventually wind up at 100%. > > I've entertained the notion of a gene that grants Magery when someone > has one copy of it, and is fatal when they have two. That provides > pressure against it becoming universal. Variations could include it only > sometimes being fatal, and so on. >
You could also make a model where in some locations only the mixed version gives magery. AA and BB are mundane, AB is a mage. Then you never run out of mundanes. One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Johannes Trimmel @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
