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Page 10 LBEDO Referee s Manual

TIES AND ANTIPATHIES:

The second aspect of inter personal relations

simulated by ALBEDO are personal t ies and

antipathies. This allows an umpire to simulate the

friends, enemies and beliefs of a character in simple

game terms.

A tie is a feeling of friendship, loyalty, respect or

duty towards a person, a nation, a group or an idea.

An antipathy is a feeling of distaste, disgust or

aversion

to

one of the above concepts.

Tieslantipathies are treated very much like skills,

having both a governor and a training level (in this

case termed m .s a person acquires

positive and negative experience with the people1

concepts around him, the strength of feeling (ability

score) which he has towards them will be effected.

Index the governor with the level of experience on

the skil l abil i ty chart to find the strength of

feeling .

The governor of all tieslantipathies is equal to the

character's DRIVE.

Experience in tieslantipathies is given in terms of

positive and negative experience. Positive and

negative experience is added directly to the

character's experience total in a tielantipathy. When

a tie or antipathy goes into negative experience, it

inverts (ie a tie becomes an antipathy). Drop the

negative sign to determine the experience level used

in determining the new tielantipathy strength.

S ta r t l n g t l e l an t l pa thy expe r lence :

Unless a person grew up sealed in a wicker

basket, he will normally have a number of ties

and antipathies. Starting characters will have

about 3 D 6 + 2 0 t ie lant ipathy experience

levels to commit to its ties and antipathies at

the start of the game (characters may take a

dice more or less at the players' option).

These experience levels are committed Only to

things which might effect the game

-

there is

no choice detailing out the character's ties to

its parents when they are parsecs away from

the intended sphere of action for the up and

coming campaign.

Sample entities with which characters might develop

ties or antipathies include:

-

Another character (eg a friend, enemy or lover).

A military or civil service.

- An ideology (eg a devotion

to

the ideals of the ConFed

charter).

A race (eg the character hates rabbits).

A world or Governmen t (Well, not everyone

loves

Dornthant i i l )

an abstract phobia (eg fear of heights or

cyberphobia)

Players should be discouraged from having their

characters take a tie with themselves, since this is

already covered by giving the character a on eited

disposition.

New tl es and antlpathles: When characters are

first given the opportunity to form an opinion about a

person or organisat ion, rol l the character 's

STABILITY vs 10 on the comparison chart. A failed

rol l wi l l give the character I D 6 of positive or

negative experience in the new tielantipathy.

Successful rolls cause no change to the character's

feelings.

Changes n t les and ant lpathles: Changes in a

character's experience level with ties and antipathies

are closely t ied to the character 's stabi l i ty

characteristic. As characters receive positive or

negative impressions of the elements to which they

have ties Or antipa thies, have the player roll on the

following chart to determine the subsequent changes

to the character's experience with the relationship.


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Inter personal relatlons Page

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T ie lan t l pa thy expe r l ence cha r t :

Roll Tielantipathy

0 to 7 No change

8 to

I-

D2

10 to 11 +I- 1D3

12+

I-

D3

DRM s:

Stability =

0

to 5: 3

Stability

= 6

to 8: +2

Stability = 9 to 11: +1

Stability

=

12 to 13: 0

Stability = 14 to 15: -1

Testing vs a minor event: -2

Testing vs major event: 3

Major ernot lonal events: Certa in cr ises may

tr igger far greater changes to t ielant ipathy

experience levels than stated above (such as

discovering that your lover is not quite the

wholesome, upstanding person you thought they

were). In such cases, doub le the character's

experience changes resulting from the tielantipathy

experience roll.

To simulate the emotional confusion caused by nasty

revelations, the umpire may decide to see-saw ties,

antipathies and self image u p and down several times

before reaching a final result.

FAVOURS:

When a character approaches an N.P.C. to request a

favour, the N.P.C.'s tie streng th with the the

character may be used to determine whether or not

the favour will be granted. Roll the N.P.C.'s tie

strength with the character vs the difficulty of the

favour, a successful roll meaning that the favour is

granted:

levels of favQuLS;

Very simple favour (often expected as a social

nicety): 2

Minor favour (no rea l trouble to perform): 5

Major favour (definitely inconvenient to perform):

1 0

difficult or dangerous favour: 20

The above system may also be used to check for

spontaneous actions which might be performed by an

N.P.C. Non player charac ters who have formed a good

impression of a player character might do favours

for the player character entirely by their own

initiative (ie offers of assistance, carry your bags,

ma'am? etc). Likewise, N.P.C.'s who have a dislike

of the player character might perform actions of

spite (such as referring troublesome inquiries over

to the player character, or starting an unpleasant

rumor). Very minor unpleasantness is given a

difficulty number of

2

minor unpleasantness 5,

major unpleasantness 10 and really overwhelmingly

nasty behavior has a diff iculty level of

20.

The

umpire will have to conceive of possible favours or

spiteful acts which might be performed, and quietly

check to see whether they are carried out by the

game's N.P.C.'s.

Favours will have increased chances of being granted

if an N.P.C. realizes that they are important to the

player character. In situations where the favour, if

granted, will result in preventing the death or injury

of a person with whom the N.P,C. has no feelings of

antipathy, drop the favour's difficulty level by 5

points.

Favours or tests of friendship wil l sometimes

require a person to go against their disposition,

causing a certain amount of internal conflict. To

simulate this, substitute the strength of the N.P.C.'s

disposition for the normal favour difficulty level.

If

the favour roll failed, then the character's natural

disposition wins over its feelings of friendship, and

the favour is refused.

These sort of tests are optional for player characters,

since it is really up to the controlling player to

determine whether its self image is best sewed by

assisting the character's friend, or by remaining

true to its disposition.

SELF IMAGEIEGO:

The final aspect of psychology which these rules will

attempt to 'simulate is the-self image or ego of

individual characters. The ego rules provide the

means through which the disposition and tie1

antipathy rules come firmly into play.

Each character is given a SELF IMAGE rating, which

is used to assess the character's confidence,

independence and general happiness with his or

herself as a person. A character's starting self image

score will be equal to its characteristic. In

many inter-personal skills, the character's current

SELF IMAGE is averaged with the skill governor when

determining the character's skill ability. The skills

which are thus effected by the character's self image

are as follows:


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