Post:Empaths' Guild Council Meeting Results - Shift is a Forbidden Practice - 08/31/2012 - 07:21

Re: Re-Empaths' Guild Council Meeting Results - Shift is a Forbidden Practice · on 08/31/2012 07:21 AM CDT	1232
>>However, the Shift ability still confuses me somewhat. I understand why certain shifts are Empath-only (e.g., purple hair), but for others it makes no sense to me why someone could not be born with the feature (e.g., dimples, cleft chin, pale silver underbelly, some of the perfectly normal hair colors). We recently did open up many of the formerly shift-only features in the CM. However, they are tiered based on subscription level, which presents its own RP problems. Leaving aside the strange hair colors, I think the shift options available typically reflect normal characteristics. So, I would expect to find them in the normal population. I'm inclined to treat this similarly to the "do adventurers still walk" problem. According to the game's lore, yes, they can still walk and should behave as though it's a possibility. Of course, mechanically walking is no longer possible. So can a S'Kra Mur who has a pale silver underbelly but was not shifted exist? Mechanically, no, but in the setting as a whole I'm inclined to say yes.
This message was originally posted in The Empaths \ Responses to GM/Official Announcements, by DR-MELETE on the play.net forums.