[Rq-rules] thoughts onAPP

[Tom Cantine]

It IS potentially enormously complex, and I've had a lot fun just 
analyzing it and that's why I shared the three distinct dice model I 
came up with. Not as something to actually play, but as a theoretical 
exploration possibly to shed light on what we're trying to model here.


On 17-Jan-07, at 7:11 AM, Peter Maranci wrote:

> I agree - although it would be necessary to apply cross-species 
> penalties in many cases, I think. A troll might have an 18 APP to 
> another troll, but at a guess, to a human their effective APP would be 
> at least 4-8 points lower. I'd imagine that would be a standard 
> adjustment for the entire species.
>   
> Likewise, it's imaginable that a species could have a cross-species 
> *bonus*. Elves could appear more attractive to humans than they do to 
> each other, no?
>  
> The fascinating thing is that the issue is so potentially complex. To 
> address it properly, you'd need a chart giving the relative 
> attractiveness of every species to every other individual species! And 
> it probably wouldn't be a mirror-image chart; if one species sees 
> another at a -6 APP, say, that doesn't mean that the other species 
> sees the first one at -6, or even +6. I don't think there would 
> necessarily be any direct relationship between the two factors.
>   
> Not to mention individual and group differences *within* a species! 
> For example, some humans see cats as beautiful; others don't. This 
> seems to go much deeper than simple opinion or taste. How could 
> something like that be reflected in the rules?
>   
> It probably shouldn't, I suppose. I'm taking realism too far.
>
> On 1/17/07, Bjorn Stolen <stolenbjorn at hotmail.com > wrote:
> I have 3d6 App on all species; as they probably find themselves pretty
> regardless of what the humans might think. (I doubt that rinocoures are
> drepressed because of their ugly skin.) So a Troll have 3d6 app, an 
> elf have
> 3d6 app and a human have 3d6 app
>
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