Re: (TFT) Poison

[Denis DesHarnais <denisdesharnais@gmail.com>]

Yes!  Exactly!   I think?  Are you saying that you would allow poison, but
make the means of procuring it, and the impact of using it to be realistic,
both on an individual and societal level?  If so, then we are of like
mind!  I think?

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:

> " How about a slippery slope into sociopathy as a control mechanism?"
>
> The Dark Lord hardily approves of this!
>
> Just where do you think your going to get this poison from anyway?
> Yeah sometimes the stuff just may grow on trees but which ones and in what
> form and where?
> Capital-city of a middlin empire might have a little of some kind already
> produced floating around and maybe the empires 2nd-city but where are you
> going to go to inquire after something like that?
> ...
> Of course the Town Counsel must meet to handle business under its powers
> and obligations through its Charter and a Counsel vote to legalize it could
> be effective in getting some product "on the shelves" as far as listing the
> stuff on the towns Item List.
> New Follower or bribe sitting Counsel members, try to gain electoral
> support, buy a "new" seat from the towns "lord", or maybe try and stir up
> some discontent and maybe a revolution... or something else I guess...
> can't plan for everything.
>
> The Dark Lord is a concept that "agitates" players that start "camping".
> With a business, building and political system players can quit paying
> attention to the game-world as a whole without some Middle Earth-like "age
> ending" events going on.
> Apart from unsocial insanity pretty much anything you do is in some level
> or form of competition or at least comparison with other peoples stuff.
> The Dark Lord is competition for whatever the players are doing.
> I consider this inevitable but took to calling it the Dark Lord due to
> typical player reaction to competition.
> Of course if the players were running around like saints selflessly helping
> the peasants and tirelessly striving to improve their environment for the
> benefit of everybody the it really would be the "Dark Lord" against them
> but a group of cutthroat sociopaths make their own Dark Lords with little
> input needed from the likes of the g.o.d.
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