From: owner-the-edge-digest@ (The Edge Digested) To: the-edge-digest@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Subject: The Edge Digested V1 #17 Reply-To: the-edge@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Sender: owner-the-edge-digest@ Errors-To: owner-the-edge-digest@ Precedence: bulk The Edge Digested Tuesday, December 30 1997 Volume 01 : Number 017 Today's subjects from The Edge: Re: [The Edge] The Ideas, a weird concept Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM [The Edge] when your players know OnTE [The Edge] My first post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 23:01:31 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Kinney Subject: Re: [The Edge] The Ideas, a weird concept On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Perry wrote: > Oh feck! i knew i forgot something! Tulpas are an interesting case. > Ideas, being conceptual entities themselves hold a sort of kinship with > Tulpas, considering them to be "brothers". ALthough to the Ideas ((Being > the ruthless thought patterns that they are)) this really dosen't mean a > whole lot, ESPECIALLY since Tulpas can live on the real world with more > ease, a Idea may work with a Tulpa, if only temporarily, and only if it If I may mention something... the working together aspect won't work if the Idea knows what the Tulpa is -- it would cause the Tulpa to start shedding traits. However.... > dosen't compromise the Idea's current plans. Otherwise Ideas treat > Tulpas like any other realworlder=HOST ((Yes, an Idea CAN force out a > tulpa, a tulpa being possesed by an Idea will assume the form of the > person who's thoughts make up the Idea, but unlike a human host the > tulpa still has a measure of control, leading to a struggle for > dominance over the form)) > This is nice... and with the above, the power struggle is not only a matter of posession, but also immediate escape, to avoid losing traits -- or maybe, just long enough to lose the Idea-form traits, but before it completely disintegrates. And, of course, PC help will be difficult for the usual reason with Tulpas. Or perhaps it shifts forms as the two entities vie for control? An interesting development for the Idea's "friends." alberich@iglou.com | Mark Kinney | http://www.iglou.com/nations "I do not want to be devoured by a symbol of monarchy!" -- KGB Chief, "Casino Royale" [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 97 23:28:54 CST From: David Buckley Ebrey Subject: Re: [The Edge] advice for a first time GM I guess I could see the players thinking that. After the game there were a lot of "Oh my f---ing god," "What the Hell?" etc., but when I e-mailed them they said that it was disorienting and frieghtening, but they liked it. That could just be my masochistic friends. David [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 02:13:23 EST From: AtlasGames Subject: [The Edge] when your players know OnTE In a message dated 12/18/97 11:37:37 PM, you wrote: >I havehad trouble running Over The Edge because most of the people I >play with play On The Edge. So the mystery of all of the stuff seems to >not surprise them. A possible solution is explored in my article in Pyramid, "The CPC Files." Basically, run a series around the idea that your PCs are "in the know" (although of course still subject to plenty of disinformation), working for the government to track down bizarre things in the protection of Her Exaltedness's regime. - -jn [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 05:58:48 -0500 From: "B. Blackmoor" Subject: [The Edge] My first post - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello, my name is Brandon Blackmoor, and this is my first post to the OtE list. I have posted my current pet project, Under the Broken Moon (the Thundarr the Barbarian RPG) to http://www.black-gate.com/thun-000.htm Any comments or suggestions from Thundarr fans or from people more familiar with OtE's rules than I are welcome. ======================================= Brandon Blackmoor Home of The Golden Horde Black Gate Publishing The Al Leong Fan Club ==================================== - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: cp850 iQCVAgUBNKjTyCV2E2252X/xAQGyTgP/WAPvrYQpkGpWgEIbTn3kpfxky2X4O4np yEKVJbdi5TbQuljSdMKstx18tCUU9taxR7AjJQt4RUNxxVqnwFfoe025Mh3tke1s P4nd0XsMDh3VorL2nFu6WPzU0TLzDPQS7HgHzkcGno8RtWLG6ryopyTY1qB7yazY 9Jdn5aU8eQ4= =Xh64 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- For Blackmoor's public PGP key, Key fingerprint = 9A EB 73 FA 64 50 C2 F8 13 76 6D 41 68 F4 DE D3 [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ End of The Edge Digested V1 #17 ******************************* [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge-digest [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge-digest To get off digest, subscribe the-edge [O] To post a message, send it to the-edge@robin.ml.org