Sell me on the Hedonism Scheme, because I really don’t see the appeal and I’m curious if I’m just missing what other…
Sell me on the Hedonism Scheme, because I really don’t see the appeal and I’m curious if I’m just missing what other people are seeing. I like the rest of the Immortal’s schemes, but this one I just don’t get, on account of:
1) I don’t know how to visualize it fictionally. How do you make a grand setup to not do stuff?
2) It’s mechanically flat. It doesn’t have any unique effects, just a limited number of guaranteed results on a universal move.
3) At the end of the day, what it allows you to do is refuse to engage with the fiction with no reprisal. This seems really against the spirit of the game, and also weirdly at odds with how much fiction you have to engage with to complete the scheme in the first place.
For the last, I can just about see an argument that you’re refusing to engage with the fiction except on your own terms, but I’m not sure I like that. And it doesn’t change the first two problems.
Thoughts, rebuttals?
(I’ll be really embarrassed if there’s a new Immortal and I just haven’t seen it yet)