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	And Tattooine would be ~ooooooooo^^^^^^^^^^.		And Tattooine would be ~ooooooooo^^^^^^^^^^.

	Underdark might be ~~19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)~~ooooo^.		Underdark might be <nowiki>~~~~~ooooo^</nowiki>.

	So the place of the Primal Pattern is technically		So the place of the Primal Pattern is technically
	~~19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)~~oooooooooo^^^^^^^^^^. Or ~o^. :)		<nowiki>~~~~~~~~~~oooooooooo^^^^^^^^^^</nowiki>. Or ~o^.

	Expanding on the thought process...		Expanding on the thought process...

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	== Sorcery ==		== Sorcery ==

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	I figure each world has a long representation and a short one. So Earth,		I figure each world has a long representation and a short one. So Earth,
	for example, would be ~o^ for short - but the long would be more like		for example, would be ~o^ for short - but the long would be more like
	~~[[User:WikiSysop\|Sarah]] 19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)~~oo^^^^^, if we assume that each element is ranked 1-5. Actually, I		<nowiki>~~~oo^^^^^</nowiki>, if we assume that each element is ranked 1-5. Actually, I
	think 1-10 would be easier; nicer ratio, at least. So Earth would be		think 1-10 would be easier; nicer ratio, at least. So Earth would be
	~~19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)~~~~ooo^^^^^^^^^^.		<nowiki>~~~~~~~ooo^^^^^^^^^^</nowiki>.

	Ooo! Ooo! Gas planet! ^^^^^^^^^^. Or ^ for short. In fact, any place		Ooo! Ooo! Gas planet! ^^^^^^^^^^. Or ^ for short. In fact, any place
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	The rest of it is GM stuff. :)		The rest of it is GM stuff. :)



	== GM Philosophy ==		== GM Philosophy ==

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New page: == Sorcery == Okay. I had some ideas about sorcery a while back, and I'm juggling them again as to how they work. If I were to run a game... Sorcery alone should not be as powerful as ...

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== Sorcery ==

Okay. I had some ideas about sorcery a while back, and I'm juggling them
again as to how they work.

If I were to run a game... Sorcery alone should not be as powerful as
Pattern. Ever. Sorcery and Pattern working together could do some really
awesome things that they can't do alone, but Pattern is the dominant
partner.

One of the other things I'd worked on was an actual //theory// of sorcery.
It was based on the three Patterns of Amber - in part because people having
Fire Patterns was making me twitch. So the three components were Sky (Tir,
represented by a triangle), Sea (Rebma, of course, represented by a pair of
squigglies like you sometimes see as a symbol for Aquarius), and Stone
(Amber, represented by a circle). Fire falls under Sky and is represented
by a v.

So each world could be represented in magical notation as a set of
characters representing the balance of the world. Let's use ^, o, and ~ as
temporary symbols. Tattooine would be ^^oo. Waterworld would be ^^~~. The
world of the Primal Pattern would be ^o~, which looks amazingly like a
smiley now that I look at it this way. *laughs* I think I'd decided Amber
would be much the same, with Rebma being ~o and Tir being ^o. I think Chaos
had a special symbol all its own, but in the end, it's also ^o~.

So the idea would be that depending on where you were, the effects of your
magic could be skewed. Water magic would be very weak on Tattooine. Earth
magic would be very weak on Waterworld. Fire spells would fizzle in the
Underdark.

The only way to bypass that would be to take either the Pattern or the
Logrus and then take Advanced Sorcery and/or Advanced in the Power to be
able to integrate the Power and the sorcery. Then your spells would always
be based in ^o~, not the local balances. Broken Pattern would be similar
but unreliable in that regard, sometimes working as Pattern, sometimes
working as the local balances, and sometimes skewing the local balances
unrecognisably. (Waterworld could react to Broken Pattern magic as ^^~~ one
spell and oo the next...)

I'm kind of thinking of the process of sorting out spell effects as a sort
of... I dunno... long division? Multiplication?

Say you're casting a fireball on Tattooine.

The spell is ^, Sky.
The world is ^^oo, Sky and Stone. Well, technically, it has to be something
more like ~oooo^^^^^ - a tiny bit of water, lots of dirt, lots of sky.
Slightly more Sky than Stone, so the effect would be just slightly
amplified.

I figure each world has a long representation and a short one. So Earth,
for example, would be ~o^ for short - but the long would be more like
[[User:WikiSysop|Sarah]] 19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)oo^^^^^, if we assume that each element is ranked 1-5. Actually, I
think 1-10 would be easier; nicer ratio, at least. So Earth would be
19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)~~ooo^^^^^^^^^^.

Ooo! Ooo! Gas planet! ^^^^^^^^^^. Or ^ for short. In fact, any place
with a wide-open sky would most likely end in ^^^^^^^^^^...

And Tattooine would be ~ooooooooo^^^^^^^^^^.

Underdark might be 19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)ooooo^.

So the place of the Primal Pattern is technically
19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)oooooooooo^^^^^^^^^^. Or ~o^. :)

Expanding on the thought process...

The player's responsibility would be:
1. Be aware that Shadows have different balances that may effect the spells.

A suggested thing for the player to know would be:
1. Roughly what elements each spell draws from
2. A way to determine the balances of a Shadow before casting spells

The rest of it is GM stuff. :)

== GM Philosophy ==

Also, have I mentioned that my Amber philosophy does NOT include auctions?
Or secret GM-spends-your-points agendas?

Those were two of my least favorite parts of the ADRPG books. Although
Grand Prize for Suckiness goes to the introduction on Shadow Knight, where I
//still// want to slap Wujick around for basically saying, "I didn't want to
write this book, and I think it's wrong, and I don't know why I spent time
on it, but here you go."

It was about group scenes. Everybody posts once. And when everyone's gone, everyone posts
again. I like that system. It's tidy.
It will also have to hold true for group threads. No burying the GM without
permission!

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