From: Personal friend of Little Elvis (WALLMAN@VAX2.Winona.MSUS.EDU)
Date: Wed 06 Oct 1993 - 19:46:20 EET
We tried traits for a few months and found little use for them.
Dislikes:
Their uses seemed to be small. If they aren't used to decide what a character does, they don't seem to be more than bookkeeping method that records the character's past actions. I think we can remember.
Some traits are easier than others. Opportunities abound to be indulgent, greedy, and deceitful. Actions that are wordly, temperate, or modest required more effort and thought. Some worshippers seem to have a harder time emulating their god.
They don't seem to fit Glorantha. This is just a feeling of mine, but they were designed for another game universe. The alignment system (lawful good, chaotic evil, etc.) wouldn't fit Glorantha either (too bad, huh?).
I would prefer something including runes (as in RUNEquest) and the particular culture (using the same traits used for both trolls and humans bothers me).
Likes:
The one thing I did find traits useful for was designing scenarios. I tried to think of situations when a character would use one trait or another (mainly just to try to get some use out of them). The result was more scenarios that had to do with personal decisions and social interactions than fighting.
Ed Wallman@vax2.winona.msus.edu
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