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From: hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: High/Low Level
Message-ID: <715@oliven.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 20:31:10 EST
Article-I.D.: oliven.715
Posted: Wed Nov 14 20:31:10 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 03:03:54 EST
References: <1995@ucla-cs.ARPA> <203@tilt.FUN>
Organization: Symposium on Alchoholism
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>> Let me slip back to my Flatland analogy.  Suppose your FRP universe is
>> represented on a flat piece of paper, and a particularly tough character as
>> a tangled mass of lines.  A Ghod doesn't have to be *tough* - in game terms -
>> to wipe out your character.  Ghod is three dimensional, and he simply has
>> to pick up an eraser and "erase" you out of existence.  So the question of
>> conflict never comes up.  Ghods, after all, are GHODs!
>
>Personally, I think this is a lousy analogy and a lousy interpretation.
>For one thing, it doesn't answer the question of WHY gods would want or even
>care about being worshipped nor why gods can have a differing amount of
>apparent power.

Hey, that's easy.  Their power is proportional to sin theta, where theta is
smallest the angle at which their extra dimension intersects the first two!

rick