: I suppose I should have mailed this to WW instead of
: filling up the forum, but I wanted to see what
: everyone else thought. If it's already included in the
: eRPG, please let me know and mock me to your heart's
: content.
: Just a suggested addition to the
: advantages/abilities/skills: the ability to
: temporarily redistribute the points of your character
: between certain attributes and abilities in-game.
: As an example, consider someone who, being a mutant or a
: robot or (in the Myth world) an archmage, can
: consciously alter the structure of his nervous system,
: building or destroying neural pathways at will. Such a
: person might choose to, say, restructure parts of his
: brain ordinarily used for abstract thought so that
: they could be employed for sensory processing
: instead--his "intelligence" would go down
: but his senses would be sharpened. In GURPS terms,
: this person would be allowed to lower his IQ attribute
: by one unit, and put the resulting surplus points into
: boosting his Alertness advantage. Or think of a
: shapeshifter, who might want to thicken his skin,
: lowering his DEX and using the surplus points to raise
: his DR. Or a cyborg, who can insert chips into his
: brain to temporarily give himself new knowledge but
: only has room for one chip at a time, moving points
: from one mental skill to another depending on which
: chip he's using. That sort of thing.
: Obviously such an ability shouldn't be free; its cost
: should depend on how many attributes and abilities the
: character can move points between, and on how quickly
: the movement can take place (reading the skills from a
: chip might be nearly instantaneous, while growing
: thicker skin might take days). Anyway, I think this
: ability would enhance the RPG experience. I wasn't
: planning on giving it to my current character Ieuan,
: but I had ideas for a couple of other characters that
: could use it. Tell me what you think.
: --SiliconDream
