Does conception have to male/female for high level cultivators?
Well we know from yrs' talks about gay relationships being seen as youthful dalliance before getting married and producing heirs, that conception seems to need male and female humans. What people can do with spirits, whether beast, object or other, is less known. Sixiang at least seems to have a completely fluid gender and sex.
I still absolutely hate the idea that we the players are going to choose the IMO lazy and unsporting option of having the GM answer the prompt instead of doing it ourselves. Accordingly, I've tried to put together an actual response matching the priorities put forth in this this vote.
Even votes that aren't lists get paraphrased. While that vote does look unfinished, I don't see it as being particularly different from normal paraphrasing.
Can you not switch out your plan when your previous plan was the only one competing with the winning vote?
I don't think people are voting for me by name, so I don't see how it matters.Can you not switch out your plan when your previous plan was the only one competing with the winning vote?
If I may, if you're going to be offering votes in a narrative-driven quest, the #1 thing you must do is clamp down hard on attempts to take "all of the above". Offer decisions that have clear dividing lines, or mutually exclusive things, and don't even bother offering votes where the optimal choice is to do multiple things or especially everything - that should usually go without need for a vote at all. Offer write-ins very sparingly (this is actually a good example of a good write-in opportunity), and manage your vote choices hard. Never offer a vote option that does nothing, nor a choice that has little consequence. It doesn't have to be serious consequence, but if two picks ever lead to the same thing, it doesn't work because it breaks the illusion of player choice. The place where a vote is called for is often different from the optimal place to break in a narrative. In a quest that does not divide up by mechanics, vote choices are sometimes more important than the content of the update. Managing quester expectations through your calls for votes is a key responsibility. It may well be beneficial to have a question answering period after a call for a vote, and only then to set a deadline.
Question for the math people on this thread: if somebody joined the Outer Sect with Talent 8 and botched most of their social/resource gathering rolls, where would their cultivation be at the end of the year? How about Talent 9?Duchess Cai said:
Well, Ji Rong should be around where we are currently. He might be in appraisal, actually. He has consistently been going faster than us even without all our extremely lucky pills and while being put in prisons with regularity.
