re: John's stuff

["Rick Myers" <leviathan_60@hotmail.com>]

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>That centralization is what makes it so valuable.  Instead of taking 
300 sites
>with other world portals...now you take 1.  That just screams "Take 
me!".

It also makes it tremendously difficulty to take.  How does one prepare 
to take and hold the nexus when they don't know who or what on the other 
side of any one of a number of portals might get thouroughly pissed off.  
Any hostile force that takes the nexus as a military jumping off point 
is going to face reprisal from within the nexus on a collosal scale.

I agree something needs to be done about it.  It should be something 
better than one of the tired old "Dragon Gaurdian from the pits of Hell" 
cliches, and the current solution of a small squad of T'orites isn't 
going to cut it either.  I've been thinking about it, but I haven't come 
up with any good, original ideas yet.  It has the potential to be 
entertaining, but it won't be easy to do without coming out as cheese or 
worse.

Brain hurts...must have...caffeine...  

Later,
Rick

>And with something like the prize that the nexus offers, unlimited and 
free
>access to anyone through 1 point that you can control...you just gotta 
do
>it if you have the means.  The rewards are just too worth while.
>
>re: doing it piecemeal...I agree completely.  I can easily see it being
>gimped by people dicking around with a whole series of adventures
>that change big details on of the 'campaign'.  Or the sudden out of the
>blue adventure is 'riding to the rescue' type thing. 
>
>It has a bit of potential to be quite cool, but it could also quite
>thoroughly suck if the plan got made and then changed in the end on 
someone's
>whim.


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>Wright
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>Repercussions?!?  Repercussions?!?  We are the Purdue Fantasy Club, we 
don't
>need any STEENKING REPERCUSSIONS!!!
>
>Why any moreso than before the nexus?  There aren't any MORE portals in 
a
>100 met area, they're just centralized.  Any big baddies wanting to 
come
>through from the other end end up in about the same location as pre 
nexus,
>save that they can't sneak up now ... there's only one door to watch :)
>
>As far as taking Lojem Isle to control the nexus, again, you would have 
to
>take/control the whole island to control all the portals on the island 
(much
>as before)
>
>Finally, yes, military occupation to take over the nexus would be a 
neat
>plotline ... and if a GM decided to pull it out of his ass on the fly
>Saturday night he should be cudgeled.  Get a platoon of GM's going and 
work
>it like a plotline, not like a bunch of scattered 1 shots.  Do it 
right, or
>don't do it.
>
>John
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