--- "Ryan S. Dancey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 10:14, Fred wrote: > > On the other hand, I can't see how one could make a new system for magic > that > > was designed to be used with the MSRD and not be derivative of it. > > You could certainly do a new magic system (that is, a system for > determining what, when, and how often a user could use magic power) that > was not derivative of OGC. If you implemented spell effects in a > universal way that didn't interact with the stats of the game, your > spells themselves might not be derivative of OGC.
You could do a magic system that was not derivative of OGC. I didn't say that. On the other hand, I can't see how one could make a new system for magic THAT WAS DESIGNED TO BE USED WITH THE MSRD and not be derivative of it. > I could see that kind of system working, for example, in a Lord of the > Rings environment where magic was atmospheric, not quantitative. Or > even the Force powers as seen in the first Star Wars movie (EPIV) which > pretty much amounted to "the power to cloud the mind" and "the power to > act with total concentration", etc. That sounds like a system that is a lack of system. ===== **************************************************************** "Let me be clear: Analysts differed on several important aspects of these programs and those debates were spelled out in the [national intelligence] estimate [of october 2002]. They never said there was an imminent threat. " -- CIA director George Tenet, 2/5/2004, Georgetown University **************************************************************** ""Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. . . . The terrorists could fulfill their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country or any other." -- "President" George Bush, 3/17/2003, 48-hour warning to Saddam Hussein **************************************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
