Measuring distance in shadow

[RPGPundit]

Yeah, I don't think psyche enters into it that way, though it might enter into how well you can keep control when hellriding. The travel times from shadow to shadow are fixed, but there are different "paths" you can take, some of the paths being more direct and others more "scenic".

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[gabriel_ss4u]

Good point Pundit, forgot about various paths.

[boulet]

When I started running Amber I thought about some method to measure distance and time of travel between shadows. I ended up with a very obtuse set of n dimensions like proximity to Amber/Court of Chaos, local time flow, environmental magic, substance (i.e. Earth is pretty substantial, some random shadow much less). There might have been more. On top of that I had an esoteric function to compute the damn travel time. It wasn't horrible because I had an excel file with formulas that computed all for me using said "coordinates". Travel time was affected by a coefficient reflecting the difference between hell riding and sight seeing. Potentially I could arbitrate between two characters racing from A respectively B toward C. A bit like those trains math problems... Never got the use of it though. Boy was all of this unnecessary... And miles away from ADRPG philosophy.

[RPGPundit]

Crazy, Boulet. Way to complicate your life for nothing!

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