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KSB snow owl
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posted May 31, 2003 08:08 AM      Profile for KSB snow owl   Email KSB snow owl    Edit/Delete Post
Do all men get goosebumps when a woman embraces sadar around them, or is that only some nifty taveren (sp?) thing that only Rand does?

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posted May 31, 2003 10:22 AM      Profile for The Great Gray Skwid   Email The Great Gray Skwid    Edit/Delete Post
All men who can channel.

[ May 31, 2003, 10:23 AM: Message edited by: The Great Gray Skwid ]

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posted June 01, 2003 12:01 AM      Profile for Fisher-King      Edit/Delete Post
I think Rand had to learn how... he didn't start out his channeling career able to.

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posted June 01, 2003 06:20 AM      Profile for The Great Gray Skwid   Email The Great Gray Skwid    Edit/Delete Post
Um...no. Rand got goosebumps from the very beginning whenever Moiraine channeled. Check it...

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posted June 01, 2003 07:10 AM      Profile for drothgery      Edit/Delete Post
... but he didn't know what they signified until Elayne and Egwene hit him over the head with it.

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posted June 08, 2003 12:38 PM      Profile for Zelyoni      Edit/Delete Post
It's an inate ability granted to any male Channeler. The question of whether he knows what the goosbumps mean or not is another question. I reckon it depends on whether the male channeler has been trained or if he is a wilder.

If he is a wilder, I would think he would not know what the goosebumps mean and he would have to roleplay it out, learning by experience.

If he was trained (Black tower), he probably knows what it means.

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posted June 08, 2003 11:08 PM      Profile for Fisher-King      Edit/Delete Post
In the game, I'd make it (as in, knowing what it means and thus attributing significance to it) a feat.

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posted June 09, 2003 07:21 AM      Profile for The Great Gray Skwid   Email The Great Gray Skwid    Edit/Delete Post
[Confused]

You'd make figuring something out a feat?

That's way over the top. I'd give the PC an intelligence check after repeat exposures to females channelling at close range...

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posted June 09, 2003 07:38 AM      Profile for LuciusT      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Originally posted by The Great Gray Skwid:
You'd make figuring something out a feat?

They made Power Heightened Senses a feat and it's an innate ability you don't even need to figure out.
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posted June 09, 2003 10:42 AM      Profile for MT      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Originally posted by LuciusT:
They made Power Heightened Senses a feat and it's an innate ability you don't even need to figure out.[/QB]

I wondered why they did that and there are two reasons I can think of.

1. They did it as a game balancing issue. Channelers already have a lot of power and they felt giving them more "free" skill bonuses would be too much. Plus it absorbs some of those Channeling Feats.

2. Maybe not all channelers are so enhanced by embracing the source. We know all channelers feel better and more alive when embracing, but the main characters can hold a lot of the OP, Rand more than anyone, and you may have to be able hold that much in order to get the benefits.

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posted June 09, 2003 11:20 AM      Profile for PredaTor      Edit/Delete Post
All men who can channel can sense when a woman embraces saidar. Rand's Asha'man seemed to know when the Aes Sedai they were holding captive were embracing saidar.
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posted June 09, 2003 11:52 AM      Profile for TheFlatline      Edit/Delete Post
Well, think of the heightened senses this way... A high spot skill doesn't mean you have better vision. It means that you are more adept at realising the significance of what you see. Therefore, while embracing the power, yes, you can actually see better, but unless you know what to look for, you won't notice that you see it. The feat lets you realise what you're picking up.

Plus, I'd say it's a balancing issue too.

Anyway, making the realisation that the goosebumps are women embracing the source is rather harsh. If I was going to make it something you had to buy, I'd just requrie you spend 2 skill points to make the connection.

Feats are rare after all (1 ever three levels, or the bonus channeling feats). A wielder of the one power is going to be busy unlocking talents and affinities with those feats as is.

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