Princes to a fault are always too approachable. Mostly as someone pointed out regarding PC Archons, they are PCs and they want to play with other people. When you think about it in most cases the Seneschal is completely superfluous. They don't need to manage anything because the Prince is so available
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You can go the other way with this. As I have found out though, there is substantial pressure from other high-rollers that you should be around glad-handing the high-rollers if you're a Prince.
What I'm saying is that this isn't just an, "I want to play my PC," thing. I've happily spent many many hours "playing" my PC in a way to decrease generally perceived availability. This tends to make most people think you're a second from somebody taking Praxis.
However, when more are playing the exception, then its no longer that. Kind of like the exclusive I have the Justicar's Cell club.I can think back to why I dropped some layer of pretenses... and it had to do with monster-of-the-week and other "super challenges." The simple truth is that if you play book-style, your character is now susceptible to all of the well-documented book-style flaws. Simply put, if you're going to "play to win" either in brute-dom or political accomplishment, you can't play it out the
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So you end up with Justicars able to be involved in semi-trivial crap because twelve of the people involved have a "legitimate and acquired in game" batphone.
The solution to this is that Coords should be required to have a prop passed at council before the Justicar gets involved and that an archon gets assigned to answer.
It depends on the type of Archon: Assassin, Showman, Investigator, Infiltrator, Soldier, etc.
I play a Archon that is half Show-man and half Assassin. She's approachable only when it's most convenient to her. She's aristocratic, snobbish, arrogant, and elitist, and won't dignify the low-status or the Caitiff unless she absolutely must.
And that's why I try and play my archon as the exact opposite.
You need beat cops walking the streets to know what's really going on in an city. Too much time disconnected at the top and you start to lose your humanity and lose yourself to the beast.
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"Why are you wasting my time?"
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Princes to a fault are always too approachable.
You can go the other way with this. As I have found out though, there is substantial pressure from other high-rollers that you should be around glad-handing the high-rollers if you're a Prince.
What I'm saying is that this isn't just an, "I want to play my PC," thing. I've happily spent many many hours "playing" my PC in a way to decrease generally perceived availability. This tends to make most people think you're a second from somebody taking Praxis.
However, when more are playing the exception, then its no longer that. Kind of like the exclusive I have the Justicar's Cell club.I can think back to why I dropped some layer of pretenses... and it had to do with monster-of-the-week and other "super challenges." The simple truth is that if you play book-style, your character is now susceptible to all of the well-documented book-style flaws. Simply put, if you're going to "play to win" either in brute-dom or political accomplishment, you can't play it out the ( ... )
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The solution to this is that Coords should be required to have a prop passed at council before the Justicar gets involved and that an archon gets assigned to answer.
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I play a Archon that is half Show-man and half Assassin. She's approachable only when it's most convenient to her. She's aristocratic, snobbish, arrogant, and elitist, and won't dignify the low-status or the Caitiff unless she absolutely must.
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You need beat cops walking the streets to know what's really going on in an city. Too much time disconnected at the top and you start to lose your humanity and lose yourself to the beast.
oh...
wait.
/poke poke poke ;)
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For Archons, possibly.
For Justicars, Definately yes.
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