Re: (TFT) New monster --> Tahquitz

[<srydzews@ix.netcom.com>]

My, that's quite something.  

> As such he has a KA 
> rather than a soul or spirit.

Which means?

> Has a rod (3.2 meters long masses 95kg)
> which can make beings do what he wishes. 

Is this essentially a Word of Command sort of effect?

Oh, and what is an existential wish?

> Tahquitz has a love of literature and 
> poetry.  They are the only things that 
> humans have created of any worth (in 
> his opinion).  

Hm, but human literature does not exist in a vaccuum.  Deconstructionist
prattle aside, it is about something, typically about humans and what they
have created.  Is this a paradox, or is this fellow being somewhat
disingenuous when he makes this claim?  Or am I missing the point?

> In the past humans have worshipped
> Tahquitz as a god.  (This is laughable,
> Tahquitz is MANY, MANY times weaker than a 
> god than the weakest human is to him.)  

I take it you don't toe the party line with regard to Jackson's "the best gods
is no gods" approach.  His philosophy seems to be that the game is about the
PC's, but if the gods are strong, they don't need PC's--and conversely, if
they do need PC's they really aren't that strong, or at least don't really
have stats of any quantifiable nature.  So what's the point in saying a god is
"many times stronger" than this?  I'm think we're well beyond the "I killed
Thor wit' me vorpal sword" days of Gods, Demigods, and Heroes (tm).  :)

> He is suggested to GM's as a god 
> figure of some barbarian society.  Such a
> pathetically weak, 'scaled down' god could
> actually be frightened by PC's which may
> be what the GM is looking for.

Frightened?  Wow.  Well I can't say anything about your PC's, but I've never
had to GM one that could do much upon meeting with such a creature's
displeasure other than to soil the creature's immortal hide with his exploding
corpse.

Very, very cool stuff.
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