[UA] Anyone watching the news?

[Bryant Durrell]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:59:56PM -0500, Kintaro Oe wrote:
> 
> > > And getting more into comic-book magic, could Bibliomancers draw skills 
> > off them?  Some collections do get pretty thick, and expensive limited 
> > editions are on the rise...
> >
> >I certainly don't see why not.
> 
> What kind of skill would they draw, however? Does the skill that the 
> bibliomancer draws from the book need to actually be _real_, or can they 
> draw fake ones? I like that idea, their power doesn't follow real logic, 
> but book rules. It'll probably be a lot harder, but it does make them 
> significantly stranger :)

You probably don't want your Bibliomancers drawing Cypher's 'grok any
language' skill, and the line between a talent and a skill is pretty thin.
On the other hand, it'd be pretty cool if one could figure out a good
balancing point...

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  Bryant Durrell [] durrell at innocence.com [] http://www.innocence.com/~durrell
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