From:	"Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject:	Blood Magic?!? WHY?!?!
Date:	Wed, 5 May 1993 23:51:22 -0500

I have been listening in with one ear open to these talks of bringing blood
magic out of the closet. I have one question, as expressed in the subject
header: WHY?? I don't think you understand what you're talking about.

Blood magic is on the order of Ghost Dance Magic, or for example, summoning the
Wild Hunt (or the low-cal, low-drain Mild Hunt [:) Doomie]). There is a reason
why this kind of stuff is kept out of the game. Everyone, it seems, takes a
pot-shot at mages: "Mages are too powerful." "The game is slanted heavily
in
favour of the mages." "Mages wipe sammis all the time" etc. Well, if
everyone
is already crying about mages having too much power, why is it that you still
insist in making them deities? And that IS what you are proposing. Magic on
the order of the Great Ghost Dance, or Wild Hunt, SHOULD be limited to NPCs, in
my opinion, or at the very least disallowed globally.

Now, vampires are supposed to be bad because they gain power from people's
essence, "stealing" it if you will. Now, extend this logic out to include
people who use people's life-force, or "soul" to work magick. Not only are you
courting disaster, I say, but you are also raising the issues of: who to kill,
why to kill, what kinds of magic, etc.

This is silly. I see no reason for it. However, in such an M environment as
this, where we have mages interfacing with digital equipment, vampires with
cyberware and bioware, voodoo screws from hell, etc. I can see how this issue
might have come up. But I entreat you - leave this issue in the closet where
it belongs, or at least never let it get in the hands of the PCs. Munchkins
are not what we need here!!! We have too many of those in the world as it is.
Can we not have a simple exchange of ideas without someone changing the rules
to their advantage at the exclusion of all other peoples?? Yes, I'm talking
GAME BALANCE here, folks. Those dreaded words when, once linked, wreak havoc
on the minds and consciences of all the players (at least, I HOPE so). Beyond
the question of "it this *really* necessary," let's examine the issue of
"is
this going to skew my game completely a-kilter?" I, for one, believe so.

For the last time, I implore you: please, have some decency and leave this
issue alone, away from the PCs where it belongs. If, for some reason I have
misunderstood, and you mean this as no more than a reasearch project into what
your NPCs can do with blood magic, I apologise, but I did not get that idea
from the transmissions of late.


-Ethan Court