Re: Olympia Lore Sheets for PCs

From: chuk@giskard.acns.nwu.edu (Chuk Craig)

Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 19:46:36 +0000

M22367@mwvm.mitre.org writes
> Howbout lore sheets on PCs?  Each player would submit level 0 and level 1
> lore sheet about the character, limited to 80 or 160 characters each...
>
> Maybe even lore sheets on NPCs! Level 0 might simply be their appearance and
> any major achievements (ie - "Killed Dr. Pain"), and level 1 might indicate
> who created the unit, when, what they are currently studying.

I think if you added lore sheets for PCs and NPCs you would have to
significantly change the way that the LORE command and the Lore skill work.
I really don't want to have wade through 50 stupid PC lore sheets, each
taking my people a week to get, to get some lore sheet for something useful.

A lore sheet telling me I can't get through Summerbridge in the winter is
much much more valuable than one saying

HEY D00DZ, MY CHARACTER IS SO K00L!!!!!  DR. PAIN BITES IT ROYAL!!!!!!!!!

And let's face it, most PC lore sheets are going to be pure fluff.

I can see that NPC lore sheet could be valuable, if they gave you interesting
information, like one hinting that the Dragon Smaug can only be killed by
using Archery, or one that said that the Vizier of Arabia is rumored to have
a magic lamp that can summon a Djinn, or that the Great Bird of Ultimate Doom
only comes to Kircarth in High Summer.

chuk
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References

Olympia Lore Sheets for PCs
M22367@mwvm.mitre.org
Thu, 14 May 1992 14:55:27 +0000