Re: Studying an opponent and Omega Strikes

Mary K. Kuhner

  One place where I know that I, as a player, do
  *not* want realism is in the handling of injury.  
  I know that recovery from even small injuries
  is timeconsuming and painful and may leave
  permanent impairments.  But I would rather, in
  this respect, that games were like action
  movies.

I wanted people to take wounds seriously for several reasons - one of
them being that if people avoid wounding, they're less likely actually
die from carelessness, given it's a permanent death game - so my basic
system is realistic in these respects.  That said, the "time consuming
and painful" part can easily be abstracted rather than played in
detail; that it's a character cost doesn't necessarily mean it has to
be a player cost.

Of course, with somewhat magical healing, wounds become much less
serious.  Still, even with a good physician's help, it takes hours to
recover from them rather than the seconds in many games.  I like the
effect of "stopping for a day to tend to the wounded".

Warren J. Dew