[UA] Channelling Multiple Archetypes

[S. Ben Melhuish]

>Archetypes seem alot more welcoming of "fellow travellers" than schools of 
>magick. The downside, of course, is that you could lose out on the 
>"archetypalness" and such a thing could lend to munchkinism of the darkest 
>stripe.

Ooo, good phrase.

>Thoughts?

A couple.

First, if you decide it's possible (more on that in a moment), there are a 
couple of things you could do to reduce munchkinism. You could say that an 
increase of one Avatar skill must come with a reduction of another (i.e. to 
raise my Avatar: The Gamer from 10 to 12, I'd have to lower my Avatar: 
Computer Programmer from 30 to 28). Or, you could say that any two Avatar 
skills can coexist, but only if both are in the first channel. To get a 
second channel (i.e. to raise the skill above 50), you must completely 
renounce the other path. (The latter has a slight problem in that a 
munchkin could have two Avatar skills at 50, which could be problematic.) 
Or you could do both.

Second, is it possible? Hm. Certain ones (as you indicated) are 
incompatible. Others are compatible to varying degrees.

The Messenger fiction in the main rulebook suggested something interesting. 
Don't know if I was the only one who read it this way, but it sounded like 
he [forgot his name, don't have the book handy] thought he was getting 
distracted by the WECHBY archetype, and (here's the interesting part) it 
sounded to me like he was falling off the path of the Messenger and onto 
the WECHBY path. Probably a misreading of the passage, but that kind of 
inspired me to decide that yes, it is possible to follow two paths at once, 
but maybe not consciously.

Okay, I'm starting to ramble. I'd go for it, especially for GMCs. But I 
wouldn't allow high-powered dual avatars, and I might hide the second path 
from a player and just let him think he's following a single path.

-- Sben


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