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A late complaint on Scion

Started by Spike, February 28, 2016, 12:54:03 AM

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Christopher Brady

#15
February 29, 2016, 09:57:03 PM
OK, in a game with clearly mechanically based game breaking bugs, with Dexterity being the main culprit, you focus on THAT?  Really?  Are you really that bored?
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#16
March 01, 2016, 12:51:25 AM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;882382OK, in a game with clearly mechanically based game breaking bugs, with Dexterity being the main culprit, you focus on THAT?  Really?  Are you really that bored?

1) Some people actually care more about the setting.
2) Scion's mechanical failures, also known as "Scion's rules", are relatively well-known. Conversely, some people still live under the false impression that it's another Exalted-like case of "good setting and a system that sucks".
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Sytthas

#17
March 01, 2016, 08:03:05 AM
Quote from: Future Villain Band;882379Dionysus leaps to mind.

I discounted Dionysus (and Aesclepius) because of the mortal mother and the apotheosis kinda -after- death and rebirth.

Skarg

#18
March 01, 2016, 02:06:28 PM
Quote from: Spike;882301Sure, I've seen that in the norse sagas, though I don't think its quite that universal as to be a fundamental state of the gods themselves, rather than being a means in which they are used in some stories.

Rather similarly, I don't expect to say that the deep meditation on death that the Illiad is, or the repeated focus on Nostos in the Illiad and the Odyssy means that the greek gods are all about homecomings... if that rather too crude analogy makes sense.  In both cases, more the Illiad, the Gods are used as literary devices but that doesn't mean the Gods were meant to be mere literary devices, right?

Myth and literature work on multiple levels. But generally the literal level only gets you plot. Sure you can relate to it that way, and that's as far as most people get, consciously, but the literal physical forms of gods don't capture all that they and the stories about them are about. So when an RPG just decides to list gods as high-powered monsters with certain powers and personalities and so on, it's all at the literal, physical, superficial level, and doesn't touch much on what they were originally about.

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March 04, 2016, 03:59:32 AM
You should play Lords of Olympus instead!
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#20
March 04, 2016, 04:17:30 PM
FYI, why not post this over at http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/scion ?

The mechanics of Scion 1E on that board are fairly well known to be completely borked - even for the fans - and there are numerous attempts to fix them.
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