From: David Dunham , via RadioMail (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Fri 01 Oct 1993 - 10:06:07 EET
>From: clay@cool.vortech.com (Clay Luther)
>When the SB player asked me about it, I said his Khan said is was Bad
>Magic and sorcerors were evil and chaotic. Months later when a player
>finally created a sorceror, the SB player began threatening to kill him
>(before the player was even done creating the character) since sorcery was
>chaos magic. A heated argument erupted between me and the SB player, with
>him saying the first time the sorceror character cast a spell, the SB
>character would have to kill him and me saying that he was taking a much too
>narrow view of magic and how could expect to tell that sorcery was being used.
> He countered with it should be obvious...he is using "different" magic. I
>countered with all cults use different magic and that the Storm Bull
>Bladesharp was different from the Humakti Bladesharp.
I think your error was saying that sorcery was chaotic. There's a difference between chaos and evil, even to a Storm Bull. Frex, God Learners were evil, but there's no evidence they were chaotic.
He probably could tell that the character was using different magic, but not explicitly that it was sorcery (except by the definition that sorcery is different magic...).
Intolerance is a difficult problem, and I think that's what the character's expressing. "Small chaos is all chaos" isn't even necessarily a mainstream Urox philosophy, and even if it is, all Storm Bulls hardly think and behave the same. And intolerance has little place in a gaming group. The Storm Bull doesn't have to trust the sorcerer (I can see him insisting on being on the same watch at night), but Storm Bulls who rush to kill without learning all the facts will get weeded out by natural selection...
>I hope I finally convinced the player that he would
>perceive sorcery has Bad Magic -- magic he would never accept -- and that he
>would certainly strongly dislike sorcerors, though not necessarily feeled
>compelled to kill them outright -- unless he was trully psychopathic.
Exactly.
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