The best thread on the egregor is here, which should get folks up to date on what that's all about. There are also more concise articles in the wiki that are must reads. What Does Barbelith Mean, and Using Barbelith In Changework. There's your homework, quiz friday.
As for characters and stats, the format we're using is more a narrative one than a die rolling one, so stats are less important than in a normal RPG. However, they are also useful. I would suggest we be a bit loose on that, adopting a general system. Use the Storyteller 1-5 rankings for skills, with 3 being professional level and 5 being the maximum of human potential. People shouldn't have scores above 3 unless its a major power point of the character. 4 is like "better than any other PC" while 5 is like "better than any NPC, too". Define the skills as you need, allowing for general ones if appropriate. The point here is more to define the character than to empower them, so use your judgement. Think of it like Over The Edge, if you've played that one.
As for magick, I think for those who are active mages a description of basic approaches and abilities will suffice, leaving the details and mechanincs more a matter of description when the magick is played. To a certain extent, the abilities of your mage are dependent on the abilities of the player to rationalize and describe the working in a believable way in the story. This is, after all, a working for the player. So in a way, its *you* doing the magick when your character does 
I'll try to get a sample done in this format for Horser soon as an example to start with.
As for pronouns, I'm just interested in keeping it readable. Te for he/she and ta for him/her is fine. I mainly don't like tai for his/her, I think its a bit clumsy. I read that and want to hear "their" instead every time, and it throws me off. But I'm willing to budge on that for the sake of this being a part of Entitything's working if need be. Just try to not overuse them where the character's name will suffice, allowing the interspersed use of the pronouns to be understood gradually by context. That way the reader is trained on their use as they are introduced. The more natural they appear in the text, the better they'll stick in the reader's head as valid speech. And do post a sample declention chart for the record, so everyone can keep it straight. |
