[Rq-rules] *** JUNK MAIL ***App and plot

[John Haverkamp]

Hello

Thought I might weigh in on the APP stat controversy.
I can imagine a campaign involving dynastic politics
in which the APP of eligible heirs could have and
enormous effect on potential political alliances. 

Imagine the scenario of the spoiled princess rejecting
suitors merely based on their low APP. She's able to
pit the various courtiers against one another because
of her alluring natural APP of  15 which is raised to
18 by cosmetics and good diet. 

Or the prince who even won't consider an advantageous
marriage proposal that would end centuries of
hostility between kingdoms because the proposed bride
is a homely APP 9. While he's more interesting in the
nubile daughter of the local war faction who has a APP
of 16+. She has instructions from her scheming father
the Count to twist the shallow princely twit around
her little finger. 

Just some examples for thought.

I might add that shallowness has much play in
literature. When tales are examined; superficiality
and the need to overcome it often drives the plot of
many a fairy tale: witness The Frog Prince, Iron John,
and  Beauty and the Beast.

In the Iliad, the Trojan war is caused by Helen's
elopement with her pretty boy Paris. “The face that
launched a thousand ships” – need I say more.


John Haverkamp


 
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