{"id":16,"date":"2009-11-19T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2009\/11\/19\/continuing-an-ongoing-mental-conversation-part-6-other-powers-iv\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T12:40:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:40:31","slug":"continuing-an-ongoing-mental-conversation-part-6-other-powers-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2009\/11\/19\/continuing-an-ongoing-mental-conversation-part-6-other-powers-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing an ongoing mental conversation, part 6: Other powers IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conjuration presents challenges of its own. I don&#8217;t know that I like it as-is. The boundaries are ill-defined &#8211; like so much of the ADRPG &#8211; and it&#8217;s easy as pie to make this overpowered. Not to mention that nowhere is there a reasonable explanation for things like the Pattern blades and the spikards. What, were they accidental creations? &#8220;Oh, whoops, I walked the Pattern and now my sword can kill werewolves&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, &#8220;It&#8217;s become part of your personal legend&#8221; is only really reasonable &#8211; to me &#8211; for things created in backstory. What if you pay points for something mid-game? How does that work?<\/p>\n<p>And where do you draw the line between conjuration and summoning sorcery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conjuration presents challenges of its own. I don&#8217;t know that I like it as-is. The boundaries are ill-defined &#8211; like so much of the ADRPG &#8211; and it&#8217;s easy as pie to make this overpowered. Not to mention that nowhere is there a reasonable explanation for t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory","tag-amber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}