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

[Greg Stolze]

>If you were to try doing UA like a traditional rpg setting.  Not being able
>to let other people take risks for you (the entropomancer taboo) makes being
>part of a team a bitch.

Actually, the taboo is "GET someone to take a risk you're UNWILLING to
take."  If your buddy volunteers to do something you're scared to do,
that's fine -- you didn't persuade him to do it.  Similarly, if someone
else takes a risk you would have taken but which you were (for whatever
reason) unable to take -- no problem.

Now, one could have a lot -- and I mean a LOT -- of fun with adepts whose
understanding of their schools are imperfect.  Most adepts are probably
poor teachers.  Neil Brinker didn't know how to get a major charge until
midway through "Roll Your Bones."  Similarly, in the fiction for WEEP (I
don't think this is a spoiler) we find out that Violet McIntyre doesn't
know exactly how much money it takes to get a Major.

An adept with an imperfect understanding of taboo would be even more
confused and vulnerable.  Whee!

-G.

If the reinstatement of capital punishment was clearly doing nothing to
reduce the number of murders in those states permitting it, it certainly
appeared to be cutting down on the number of confessions.
        -Dr. Douglas Ubelaker

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