[UA] RE: Graffiti artists and a charging scheme

Mon Feb 28 00:51:13 PST 2005

A school around stereotypes? Hmmm... Every time *I* hear "stereotype" I
tend to to think in terms of archetypes (wich might as well be called
stereotypes, ti's the same thing really) rather than magick schools. Also
the charging and taboo structure makes it really easy - pretty much
neccesary actually - to follow some stereotype/archeotype, and I feel that
schools and paths shouldn't come in "matched pairs, get the whole set!".
Makes the players life to easy.

Mattias Östklint             tel:   036-146856
EM-OKA                          fax: 036-146064
56182 Huskvarna

----- Message from "Ja ke" <high_healedblues at hotmail.com> on Sun, 27 Feb
2005 05:47:30 +0000 -----

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 Subject: [UA] Graffiti artists and a      
          charging scheme                  

Oh and while I'm at it, does this seem like a decent charging structure for

a racial stereotype based magick school to you peeps? (is the sig too
difficult/too hard to portray and work within the gaming system?):

Paradox: You gain power enforcing a negative stereotype that isn't really
representative of either you or your ethnic group, and empower yourself
while at the same time negatively affecting your community.

Generate minor charge: Cause someone to make a stress check or set off a
persons passion stimuli in a way that reinforces in that person's mind your

chosen negative stereotype.

Generate a Significant charge: Cause someone to become a racist or
discriminate against your 'kind of people' who didn't before hand.

Generate a major: be the direct cause of an entire large community
attacking
or ostracising 'your type of people' in such a way that it causes many of
the affected group to die or be killed.

Taboo: A Playa taboos whenever someone challenges their behaviour in
someway
and gets away with it and also when they are seen acting in a manner that
doesn't fit the stereotype they are supposed to be portraying