[Rq-rules] App and plot

[Lev Lafayette]

--- John Haverkamp <magbhitu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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. 

The example is a clever use of the APP for game usage
purposes, but it also illustrates that clever use is
required for the characteristic, which does
justifiably bring into question its overall utility
and whther it could not be described as 'colour'.
 
> 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.

Again, very good examples. Which leaves two real
options; either strengthen the role of APP in game
terms or find to incorporate the effects into other
game terms - I can imagine the charismatic effects of
POW, for example, being suppressed by enchantments in
the Frog Prince and Iron John and Beauty having
sufficient "glamour" POW to overcome the beast.

All the best,


Lev
> 
> 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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