[UA] Risking it

[Gareth Hanrahan]

> Everything I know about Statistics says there's a
> risk.  It's a PERSONAL risk, but a risk just the same.
>  Also, you CAN get hurt with blanks, as someone
> mentioned, but that's not the point.
> If someone hands you a gun with a Shit-eating grin and
> says, "hey, let's play Russian Roulette. You go
> first." and you have every reason to suspect there's
> real bullets in the gun, you are taking a risk.
> You have to calculate the odds from a personal
> viewpoint.  Probability is a very relative
> mathematical field.  It attempts to take data gained
> from a subjective viewpoint and make an objective
> statement with it.  The same thing either has to be
> true with magic, making it a risk to shot yourself
> with a gun loaded with blanks a real risk because you
> beleive it is or it is universally untrue with magic
> -meaning that the example given to start this whole
> thread was untrue as well.  That was a personal
> instance where magic punished the entropomancer, there
> was no "significant" objective element to it.
> You just can't have it both ways and call it fair.

My personal take on it: If an entropomancer does something to gain a charge,
and either the player or the GM _rolls dice_ to see if he gets injured or
not, then that's a valid charge-building exercise. Otherwise, it isn't. The
above example of getting handed a gun by a stranger would only work if the
stranger were in the habit of randomly loading some guns and not others.

Gar
http://www.mytholder.f2s.com


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