(06-04-2015, 04:20 PM)Lilia Lia Wrote:(06-04-2015, 04:13 PM)Hammersmith Wrote: I think it could, in an indirect way. Â Since it's a management of fate and omens, it could, in theory, steer you away from major life events that would be detrimental. Â Don't go outside on X day, storm strikes, don't travel to X an Y day, place burns to the ground.
IN short you'd have a long natural life span at the expense of being boring as hell. Â In order to do anything with your long life you'll have to...well...put it at risk.
This would be hard to RP though because theoretically your character would never put themselves in life-threatening situations, so if a life-threatening situation ever came up through natural RP you'd have to explain why your character didn't foresee it.
Oh, I never said it was a viable char concept, I didn't think that was the question.
Totally viable for some wrinkled NPC in a tall tower though. Â You see a lot of "Looking" forward in the Coerthas stuff, the astrologers are all segregated and in controlled sections there.
Given the shit happening at Ishgarde, astrology has to have a major flaw. Â Either it becomes impossibly complicated for normal people on a macro scale, making it impossible to have a nation state like Ishgarde steered soley by it, or it's subject to more chance and "This or that might" forking prophecies not "This is" definites.
So either it works on a small scale but not large, which means it'd be great if you want to be a really old codger who lives in a tower, or it's a complex web of questions and branching possibilities like the Foundation series wrote about with their social mathematics, which I think also lends to it's "complex on large scale" issues.
Obviously it can't be perfect or Ishgard would have seen all this coming, like you said.
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