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Wowbangers the Infinitely Prolonged
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posted November 11, 2002 05:25 PM      Profile for Wowbangers the Infinitely Prolonged   Email Wowbangers the Infinitely Prolonged    Edit/Delete Post
I was just reading book 8 (again), and in the beginning when Elayne is sorting through her cache of goodies she finds a weak angreal. At that point she makes a comment which rather caught my attention. It was something along the lines of, 'even though it was a weak angreal, it would still allow her to channel more than twice as much as nyn. could.' This rather startled me, because in the rpg, all they do is add a level or 2 to their weave level. This massive underpowering of angreal must be a massive balancing adjustment. So if you think about it, you more than likely could have taken on the Dark One with the Chadin Fal (or whatever they are). The question I have, is that, has anyone created alternative rules for angreal, making them 'real life' powered? I like having the wot realm as real as possible, regardless of how insanely powerful a channeler could become.

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Merclaar
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posted November 11, 2002 11:59 PM      Profile for Merclaar      Edit/Delete Post
The problem (as I see it) is, the power scale in the RPG isn't wide enough...

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Shadowkiller
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posted November 12, 2002 04:29 AM      Profile for Shadowkiller      Edit/Delete Post
If you follow a scale sort of binary in nature for the power of a specific weave, you'll find this can work out. So if the power of a level 0 weave is 2^0 and a level 1 weave is 2^1 and level 2 is 2^2 then you find that all you need to do to double the power of a weave is increase its level by 1. This would allow the normal description and ruling of angreal and sa'angreal to still work.

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Melriken
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posted November 12, 2002 10:11 AM      Profile for Melriken   Email Melriken    Edit/Delete Post
shadowkiller hit it on the head, a level 8 weave is much weaker than a level 9 weave. twice as strong may be an exageration, but even if it is half again a +2 angreal would do it.

when two people are close in power level what they mean is that they can channel the same highest level weave, but the stronger one has more slots or total weave levels. it is not the best representation, but it works.

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