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    Zolvolt's Avatar
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    Zolmation Volt
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    Sargatanas
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    Blue Mage Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by AmiableApkallu View Post
    You may want to talk to Guillestet again. Reacquaint yourself with the history of "fortune-telling" and "fate-scrying" and "consulting with a divining deck" and "hoping to draw forth its aether and use it to manipulate fates."

    Unknowability and uncertainty is intrinsic in all of that. The gameplay mechanism that reflects that is RNG.
    It's fine if you take it that way. But drawing the cards at all reflects that. Not the RNG about it. I mean, which one of is right? the RNG is removed from the job only backs one of our views up. That being said they could re-add rng in a new way to astro and it's not like I'm going to be against it. It doesn't matter if its there or not. But it being present has more negatives than posistives.
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    Tatanpa Nononpa
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    Zalera
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zolvolt View Post
    It's fine if you take it that way. But drawing the cards at all reflects that. Not the RNG about it. I mean, which one of is right? the RNG is removed from the job only backs one of our views up. That being said they could re-add rng in a new way to astro and it's not like I'm going to be against it. It doesn't matter if its there or not. But it being present has more negatives than posistives.
    The defining characteristic of drawing a card from a desk is that you don't know what card(s) you'll get next. It's really that simple. It's the basis of many a card game.

    AST's cards, inspired, by tarot cards, are no different. I mean, what's the point of a reading if you already know the answer ahead of time?
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