I agree re: dilutions, just not quite convinced about the extra chips of ice making a huge difference.

And to keep Pom happy, how about adding more ?'s to the title reqs, or is that less?

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Oderint dum metuant.

>Glances at the thread

>Points back at the title

Dont use ice

>Grins and dives back into the chaos


Pomae

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actually i'd put that not on regular jail, but for that one on mriss.

sort of like people that do that ranger/paladin quest get special title of "emerald knight".

and no, i haven't been imprisoned there yet.


<<Because it's a gigantic can of worms. Eldritch, necrotic, squamous worms, writhing in a vile stew of coagulating ichor, crushed from the living gullets of a thousand infant puppies, ululating in wordless terror. - Lorz>>

Was wondering if we were going to get any titles that were khri related? Never saw anything if it was in the works or even planned.

Dun


A thief believes everybody steals.
Edward W. Howe

Inspired by your other post,

Jellyfish
150 swimming
100 brawling
Can use poison


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"Close your eyes -
For your eyes will only tell the truth..
And the truth isn't what you want to see.
In the dark, it is easy to pretend
That the truth is what it ought to be." - Erik Claudin

I was reading an interesting article in SciAm and an idea popped into my head.

The article is called "What would Blackbeard do?" and is an economist's look at the golden age of piracy. (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=pirates-rational-choice)

One of the topics was about the Jolly Roger and why everyone didn't just hoist the flag even though they would instigate attacks on other merchant ships like a pirate would. The section follows:

Can you please clarify the term "separating equilibrium" that pops up in your chapter on the Jolly Roger?

A separating equilibrium is to be contrasted with what's called a pooling equilibrium. It's part of signaling theory, the idea that people want to engage in various behaviors to communicate something about themselves that isn't directly observable. What makes for a successful signal is if it's more costly for some types to send than it is for others. Think about it this way: if the Jolly Roger was so effective at facilitating merchant ship surrender, then why didn't the legitimate belligerents, the other guys attacking merchant ships, also want to hoist the Jolly Roger? Because it could have facilitated easier surrender for them, too. My point is that they did want to. A pooling equilibrium was threatened but was largely prevented by what is called the single-crossing property in economics?the fact that it's more costly for the one type than for the other. And it was more costly for a privateer ship, which was legitimate, because if they raised the Jolly Roger, all of a sudden their status moves from legitimate ... to criminal?they could be caught and hanged. So that's an added cost for them. But pirates, since they were already outlaws, they had already incurred that cost.

Now my line of thinking was that Criminal titles in DR generally parallels the use of the Jolly Roger back in those days. But i feel the titles aren't really "costly" enough in their current incarnation. I don't know if Z had coded anything into justice about criminal titles, I kind of doubt he would. So my suggestion is to essentially put the justice system into the criminal titles. I know that some title require active warrants in one of more providence and i like to see this expanded to all criminal titles. The minimum being one active warrant in any providence for those not members of the Thieves guild.


Yamcer

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"You know, while I understand the importance of seeing the (personal) validity in other's arguments, it's impossible for me to believe fully that others are correct. If their argument was correct, I'd change mine." - My GF

Social Outrage should become a part of every character.


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"Close your eyes -
For your eyes will only tell the truth..
And the truth isn't what you want to see.
In the dark, it is easy to pretend
That the truth is what it ought to be." - Erik Claudin

I've been begging for that title for ages but the only answers i've got were basically 'not happening' :( Apparently no matter how hard I steal my soul will never be blacker than that of a paladin!

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"When I grow up, I want to be a soulless monster trapped in a suit of enchanted armor and compelled into violent service for a commercial institution through torturous psychic conditioning." -- Armifer

Curious if anyone has rank and skill reqs for the Nightmare title. I'd imagine the first two are hiding/stalking, just curious what the third might be and what range it falls in.

Honest

(This could be a thief or a criminal title, really)

For the sake of sanity could we please, please have the titles from Astrology moved to Moon Mages and the titles in Survival1/2/3 that require guild-specific skills be moved to their respective guilds? There's some in criminal, weapons, and I think ownership that should also be moved. It makes little sense to have a guild with the ability to impersonate another guild that can't use those specific titles.

Criminal Title: Psychopath
Requires high ranks of two weapons (say 300 to 400 each? maybe more), and very high ranks in stealing, maybe as high a req as the weapons.