tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post3506643494600850927..comments2024-03-27T19:02:58.368-04:00Comments on BARKING ALIEN: Have You Felt It? The Dark Side, And The Light.Adam Dicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-68808553799527706252016-01-28T21:19:36.688-05:002016-01-28T21:19:36.688-05:00Yay! Someone asking a question! Woohoo!
Ahem.
If...Yay! Someone asking a question! Woohoo!<br /><br />Ahem.<br /><br />If you spend a Dark Side point to do something good, we're talking truly altruistic, the Gamemaster may return the point to you at the end of the session/beginning of the next, as a Light Side point.<br /><br />Or...Hmmm. It should be harder.<br /><br />The Light Side is a more difficult path. "Quicker, easier is the Dark Side" did You say. I'm thinking that perhaps instead of getting a Light Side point back for the Dark Side point you spent with good intentions, you lose the point entirely. It doesn't automatically come back as Light Side, or Dark Side.<br /><br />Rather, through continued play, dialog and actions during the session, the GM must decide if you get one back at all. If the answer is yes (and the other players can weigh in with opinions, and evidence as they do when awarding ATs), then the PC is at last rewarded with a Light Side point.<br /><br />The key element is make it situational, truly a case by case basis. Make it role-play driven, not solely a mechanical rule. This is more fitting to the description of the nature of The Force, as goes a ways toward helping define it as not perfectly defined.<br /><br />Depending on how the player has played his/her PC up to that moment, perhaps the difficulty should be raised when one attempts to use a Dark Side point for a positive, good intentioned action. You can't be a murderous a**hat for a stretch of time, suddenly say, "And now I feel like doing good" and just assume the universe is going to be OK with that.Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-80381231415704873772016-01-27T15:24:32.436-05:002016-01-27T15:24:32.436-05:00Will there be some way to win your way back to the...Will there be some way to win your way back to the Light Side? Mechanically, this would be flipping Dark Side points back to Light Side.<br /><br />Or do you just do good things to increase you Light Side score so it is more than your Dark Side score to free yourself from the grip of Darkness?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com