Re: what is it about angels?

On Jan 31, 11:09 am, mkkuh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Mary K.
Kuhner) wrote:
> In article <1170252376.875993.75...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Will in New Haven <bill.re...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >Of course, why they should KNOW that they can't take on
> >the angel succesfully, if that is what they want to do, is another
> >story. Encounters that are so transparent that the outcome is known to
> >the players are not my cuppa tea.
>
> Because they're professionals.
>
> If you are a professional dragon-hunter, you may know that old black
> dragons have skin so tough it will turn any arrow.  If all you have
> are bows, and it is on the wing, you can see that you will lose.  I
> don't have a problem with this; and I can't play someone as a
professional
> dragon-hunter who is consistently ignorant about this sort of thing.
> I just can't believe in such a character.

I couldn't either. If there are professional dragon-hunters, then
dragons are common enough and well-known enought that the information,
while probably not available to the general public, is available to
the pros. There are no campaigns that I know of with professional
ANGEL-hunters. Angel encounters are singular events.

The closest things in my gaming experience to an angel encounter are
some encounters with avatars (one avatar per encounter) of a powerful
god. Even the priest (of the same god) in the party would not know if
this were a seeming called up by a priest, in which case the group
might kick its butt, or a sending by the god himself, in which case
they had almost no chance.

>
> Here, the GM assumed he could trust the game-system's ranking, so
> was led into making statements about world history and PC understanding
> which turned out to be obviously false--not because he had some good
> in-game reason for making them false, but because the system ranking
> was spectacularly (IMO) broken.

Sounds broken but, elsethread, Mr. Boff seems to have come up with a
very good explanation. Which doesn't mean that it isn't broken but
it's broken the way the designers wanted to break it.

>
> If the PCs had known they couldn't win, they might have done the exact
> same things, but player and GM would have been a lot less distracted
> and put off by the sudden discovery that things weren't what they were
> supposed to be.

Armed with the "Angels are always bigger than they appear in the
mirror" warning, I should imagine things will go smoother from now
on.

Will in New Haven

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> Mary Kuhner mkkuh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]