Lexicon of the Lost 500 Years

The Lexicon of the Lost 500 years is off to a great start with an initial batch of entries that seem to strike quite the interesting set of tones. I can't wait to see how it continues to develop. I still have my doubts about the abbreviated Lexicon, but I'm willing to give anything a whirl once.

Ruminating on personality traits

Okay, I’m pretty much on the fence when it comes to the whole question of personality mechanics in an espionage rpg. One of my worries about personality mechanics is that a major theme in the sources is that human motivation is an unsolvable mystery. You can be offered clues, but the meaning is to be puzzled out by the ‘reader’. And I think that in the case of Le Carre there is an unbridgeable gulf between the internal realities of individuals and that we can never completely identify with the feelings of our fellow human beings; we remain forever a mystery to one another.

That said, I also recognize that’s one interpretation and there are a lot more possible. But it does leave me the question how to model that? Or am I overanalyzing?

And I musts ay that robotnik has some very convincing things to say.

I hope peaseblossom writes up her thoughts on personality traits and this game.