thread: 2013-12-30 : Some Basic Rules (v)
On 2013-12-31, plausiblefabulist wrote:
Apologies if I'm being dense, but I'm a little unclear on who is "you" and who is "they". Is "they" the person who you are targeting with a change, so that if a PC sings celestially, their player asks the target's player what the target wants to know the truth about, and if the PC sings infernally, the PC's player asks the target's player what the target wants the PC to know the truth about? And if the target is a rock, at issue is how much the rock(?) trusts the PC, and what the rock wants to know the truth about?
I love that this is generative, open-ended magic. I love that its effects are woven into the two characterizations, celestial and infernal, and the way those two are opposed-but-not-exactly, how they are complementary and each is its own thing on its own terms. And I love hooking in very situationally what the character has done so far, to make someone trust them or not.
But I'm not so sure who asks what of whom, and in what stance, as it were (how I determine as GM whether a rock trusts the character, or if what's at issue is whether the GM trusts the character, in which case I wonder what that means—trust them to do what?)
