Re: [HOE] About Rules of Engagement...

[Madnes6841@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/23/01 9:59:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
darious@darious.com writes:

> >On a similar vein, during character creation, I can take the Edges of Rank
>   >and Emancipation, both of which cancel existing Rules, but how are the
>   >cancelled Rules determined?
>   >
>   >The initial Rules are randomly determined, so are the cancelled Rules
>   >likewise determined randomly, or can I chose which ones to 'lose'?
>  
>  You would just end up rolling for less rules in the first place.
>  
I would think that the lost rules should be handled differently for the two 
different edges. For Rank, the rules were never given to the 'Can in the 
first place, so I'd say that for Rank you'd just not roll for RoE's 
eliminated in this way. But Emancipated is different- The army didn't think 
that the 'can would Chafe under that number of rules- for some reason the can 
just came into conflict with that rule so often that he eventually shorted it 
out- so it seems to me that these rules would be rolled for with the rest, 
and then the more offensive rules, like kill all short people, would be 
removed. Or not, if the character had no problem with killing short people. I 
would suggest that the marshal and player work out together which rules have 
been shorted out. But they don't pay me to think. 

Uriah Diehl