Three Questions

[thessalian]

1) Many thanks to pknight. She informed me in a comment on my last entry that Amazon was having some kind of problem getting Affils Player's Guides or something. We have emailed Lightning Source, the printer / publishers, who say that there's no reason they can see why it should have happened and they are going to email Amazon and find out what the problem is. It's entirely possible that it's just Amazon having yet another case of the spazzes (as it often seems to), but in the meantime, we have pointed pknight to Barnes and Noble. Hopefully some news that isn't just "WTF? I'll talk to Amazon" will be forthcoming. Bah. I don't know how many people on my friends list actually bought a hard copy through Amazon or anywhere else, but if any of you did, could you please let me know if you had any problems?

2) The alternate-to-Mage-Sunday game shall be Changeling. More details forthcoming soon, but suffice it to say that players should be Seelie. First session (which will probably be entirely prelude and any further character gen that needs doing) will be on 19th March. Can I please have a roll call of those who will be participating?

3) Still waiting on confirmation of my Galliard-auspice Glass Walker for The Hollow City. We're stuck on a minor point about Dex at the moment. A question for y'all: Character starts doing gymnastics and martial arts at age 8, takes up ballet at age 10. Keeps all three activities up through high school, adding cheerleading to the mix. Leaves home and high school at 17 after First Change, travels the country, fights various agents of the Wyrm, keeps in training and pole-dances at strip clubs to make ends meet. How is Dex 5 "not in keeping with the character concept"? I know it seems a little extreme, but the rules did say that Attributes could be raised above 4 with Freebies, and Dex, as can be seen in the background info, would be the one place at which this character would likely be phenomenal. And yet the STs say it's "not in keeping with the character concept". I'm also having minor problems with the whole "We don't generally let people have Attributes at 5 when they start": see above about how the rules say that Attributes can be raised above 4 with Freebies, which is what I did and paid through the nose for it. I'm curious; does it seem that unreasonable?

Comments

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me. If they don't want characters to have stats above 4 at creation, then they should simply say so, not be passive/aggessive about it.

[dodgyhoodoo.livejournal.com]

Re Changeling - me! me!

[fearmeforiampink]

On the 5 dex thing; I can see their point of not letting people have attributes at 5 when they start, and if that had been their reason for not wanting, or had they gone to you "We think you might be trying to twink your character"/"We think your character background is too implausible". But I do agree that faulting you on "it doesn't fit" seems unreasonable.

What you've mentioned as a character background is the sort of extreme dedication required to get an attribute at 5.

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

No, that's the thing. They liked my character background and said nothing about twinking; they just said that Dex 5 didn't fit that character, despite my having pointed out in the character's background that being able to use her body to its utmost limit was her whole raison d'etre. The point I was making was that she'll never be strong, and can't take a punch very well, but she can move. It just didn't seem to make sense to me.