[UA] The End of the World, and so on.

[john nixon]

> >What we're looking at here involves doing lots of work and creating
> >great art without benefitting from it or sharing it. Good foundation for
> >a magical school, except it's not very _playable_ (Changeling had the
> >same problem). How do you create art in-game? "Um, so, uh, I paint a
> >great painting." "Okay... it takes a month. Roll the dice." BORING.
> >
> >It's similar in concept to Plutomancy (get money, but can't use it) or
> >Pornomancy (get sex, but don't like it) or Entropomancy (take chances,
> >but don't benefit from them). But unless it's more playable than those,
> >it should be more or less restricted to NPCs.

Been lurking on here for a bit, figured I would add in my two cents.

Actually I see schools such as these or others that would require a lot of
out of game time to things are more geared towards campaigns.  In one game
(although no UA) I play in I have a painter who practices magic through his
art.  Some of the stuff I have slowly made my character capable of include -
trapping souls, cleansing locations of evil, anything runic based, creating
gates etc.  But this would be a completely unusable character in short term
series of adventures or one shot games.

Just my views

PeterAmthor



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