Old Man
Feb 26th, '03, 11:49 AM
I've been having a...discussion with someone on the B5W mailing list. This is the latest message he sent out. It just boggled my mind.
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I've observed the same thing in Champions games. Everybody buys regen, speed 5+, and Dex 23+. Just because a system is skill point based is no guarantee that the sameness is or can be avoided. Quite frankly we agree to disagree.
>> I find this to be quite funny but since you don't
>> take the Hero System seriously, then you wouldn't understand why.
Heh, where did you get this? Hero has a fantastic framework, you just can't let the players buy anything other than perks, skills, and stats with normal maxes. Or you do what I'm considering and have people randomly generate their characteristics and allot them some skill points jettisoning the abusable parts for the valuable mechanics.
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I've observed the same thing in Champions games. Everybody buys regen, speed 5+, and Dex 23+. Just because a system is skill point based is no guarantee that the sameness is or can be avoided. Quite frankly we agree to disagree.
>> I find this to be quite funny but since you don't
>> take the Hero System seriously, then you wouldn't understand why.
Heh, where did you get this? Hero has a fantastic framework, you just can't let the players buy anything other than perks, skills, and stats with normal maxes. Or you do what I'm considering and have people randomly generate their characteristics and allot them some skill points jettisoning the abusable parts for the valuable mechanics.