Me: Will and Imagination.
Jared: hola
Jared: yeah
Me: The two keys to magic.
Me: (And the green lantern ring.)
Me: These must be stats in Secret.
Me: … but I’m not sure how they work.
Jared: Will you impose. It opposes Imagination.
Jared: Imagination overcomes someone else’s Will (ie: THEIR vision)
Me: Hm…
Jared: You could use a “one number” system like Zero and TrollBabe
Me: Will and Imagination are two, big man. š
Jared: you can make them one
Me: I don’t know about that.
Me: Here’s what I’m thinking.
Jared: pick a number. Over is Will, under is Imagination
Jared: or something
Me: I want people to build their own symbol systems. For example, Sloth means something to Jared. It has personal meaning.
Jared: right
Me: so, you write “Sloth” on your character sheet. Sloth is a specific type of symbol: a totem animal. When you do things that invoke the virtues of Sloth, you roll an additional die. Or a number of dice equal to your rank in Sloth.
Me: When you find another symbol that Corresponds to the same meaning as Sloth, you also get that symbol, albeit on a lesser level.
Me: Correspondances are important because they build symbol systems. There is a Correspondance, for example, between the Virgin Mary and a rose. They both imply purity. So, having “rose” on your sheet gets you dice, but so does the Virgin Mary, just not as many dice.
Jared: brb
Jared: so the exact term gets you 2 dice, a related word or concept gets you 1, say?
Me: Something like that, yes.
Jared: What if you had a central Word (“Virgin Mary”) and then your Will/Imagination ((?) )score gives you extra Correspondences?
Me: You build Correspondances. Deep Correspondances cannot be trumped.
Me: Oh, wait a second.
Jared: And then those Corrspondences branch out, until your run out of “points” (
Me: Ok. Will is the number of dice you roll for Correspondances. Imagination is the number of “links” you can have from core Correspondances.
Jared: so it kinda forms a tree
Me: Yes.
Jared: Each branch decrements the value by 1, until you hit 0
Me: Your character sheet looks like a tree.
Jared: yeah
Me: So, you pick a number of core Correspondances equal to some number. You can start with a higher Will or a higher Imagination.
Jared: maybe tie that seppiroth thing in? (sic)
Jared: higher imagination = more options
Jared: higher will = more focused on one idea but it’s stronger
Me: Yes.
Me: YES! š