[UA] Regis and such

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 02:50 PM 06/26/2000 CDT, you wrote:
>>Given the time taken to cast a spell -- and the fact that the qualifying
>>questions to get to the hot seat would require multiple castings to put the
>>answers in order -- a cliomancer who didn't actually know wouldn't have a
>>chance in hell against someone who genuinely knew their stuff.
>
>Why wouldn't the cliomancer know his stuff?  These people are obsessed with 
>history as a path to supernatural power.  Knowing the answers is what a 
>cliomancer would do.

But then the question becomes, "Why doesn't a cliomancer go on the show and
win without magick?"  And the answer is "Nothing's stopping him, any more
than it's stopping anybody with a high 'Trivia' skill."

-G.
It's an honor just to be nominated.

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