[UA] Risk: It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax!

[Greg Stolze]

>My problem lies in this:
>
>If Entropomancy is not subjective to the adept, then,
>whenever an adept does something on purpose which has
>an element of risk -even an element of risk the
>Entropomancer does not immediately recognize- then the
>Entropomancer should get a charge.
>
>If, on the other hand, Entropomancy is really based on
>subjective events, then an Entropomancer would not get
>the benefit of "danger sense."  Instead, the
>Entropomancer would get the benefit of charges as long
>as the player arranged things so that the character
>beleived pretty strongly that a situation was "risky."

Dude, it's all about the intersection.  The entropomancer has to believe
he's in danger AND he has to genuinely BE in danger.

When I was a teenager fooling around with modem BBS (well, actually a
friend of mine did the fooling and I was the spectator) there was one set
up with a fake computer crash.  It would give you what looked like a
genuine C> prompt.  (Yes, this was before GUI.)  But if you tried typing
anything clever (like "dir") it would print "Aha!  Gotcha!"

Here's four situations that may illustrate it.

1) Entropomancer sees a train coming, decides to race it across the tracks.
Succeed or fail, he's charged.  He saw the danger and the danger was real.

2) Entropomancer sees a thuggish looking guy in a bar and as he walks by he
mutters "I fucked your wife."  What he does not know is that this
particular thug is deaf.  The danger, being nugatory, is not sufficient to
yield a charge.  He saw the danger, but the danger wasn't really there.

3) He leaves his house, not knowing that a sniper perched opposite him has
been waiting to blow his head off.  He gets no charge. There's danger, but
because he is not aware of it, he can't take advantage of it.

4) He buys a carton of milk.  There's nothing wrong with the milk.  He
drinks the milk, confident that it's safe.  It is.  No charge.  He
perceived no danger, and no danger was present.

Make more sense now?  It's not an on/off light switch: More like a light
where two switches must be turned on.

-G.

Another taste of cheap delight.



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