I've been having some problems applying the magical determinants. Basically I'd like to know what the boundaries of these values are. It doesn't make sense to me that Tolerance would represent the percentage of the population that isn't actively hostile to magic. So tolerance represents the percentage of population that is generally positive towards magic? So at Great (+2) between 81% and 94% of Exquaestio is positive towards rohain and espiri magic (with the remainder probably being neutral)? I assume Prevalence isn't just those individuals who actively practice magic? It also includes people who study it without practicing it? In the case of Exquaestio this would also include those who can support espiri without being able to focus the magic themselves? At Terrible (-3), between 2% and 6% of can actively work or support magic? Now what does Diversity mean? At Poor (-2) does this mean that Exquaestio's magic covers between 7% and 19% of the potential range? Now, 24 "terms" cover the whole potential of espiri magic, so at Poor they should have access to 1 to 5 "terms?" (Oops, I wanted them to have access to 6.) Rohain, on the other hand, have only 10 "terms" and so should use only 1 to 2 of them? How does the range of ability within each "term" work out? The big problem is Sophistication. What can be accomplished with a Fair (0)? What sort of Guidelines are there? If an espiri can gather 100 people and move 7.3 metric tons at 1.0 kilometers per hour for an entire work shift is this Fair Sophistication? What about moving 3.6 metric tons at 10 kilometers per hour for one minute? How does the limited number of people who can actually do this (as opposed to something else) fit in? Jefferson (Exquaestio) http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
