assault Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 Because of a post in the Champions Now forum, I've started thinking about building high end DC characters again. One of the classic conundrums in character modelling is the point bloat in the last couple of editions. Up until 4th edition, if you followed George MacDonald's guidelines: 100 points in a power is awesome, and apperently essentially a hard cap in his game, you could pretty much occupy the high end space if your character was built on 500-800 points. The published villains tended to support this. These days you need 10 times that many points, or you just get toasted by any number of published villains. In the early days, it was possible for a starting character, if you played enough, to get into the high end zone. You can't do that in the last two editions, unless you start with inflated points to begin with. So I've been thinking: why not bump up the rate at which characters gain experience? If you need 10 times as many points to create a character that isn't at the bottom of the pecking order, and you don't want to start on a zillion points, why not increase the rate at which characters gain experience? I'm thinking about a factor of 10 or 20. So if, under the current system, you get 1-4 points per adventure, why not 10-40? You would still have to play a lot to reach the big leagues, but at least you could. Thoughts? ("It's your game" is not helpful). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khas Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 I think you only need 100-1500pt for being a top end character, but increasing the adventure reward seems a good idea, along with enhancing a bit the xp per session. If you want a run from 400 to 1500. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 If you earn 40 points from one adventure, that'd buy you 13 different skills.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 Reject Modernity, and embrace 4th Edition! Tjack, Duke Bushido and assault 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted April 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 That's definitely a possibility! Or use the current editions, and ignore all the bloated published characters. Grailknight and Ninja-Bear 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tjack Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 59 minutes ago, Scott Ruggels said: Reject Modernity, and embrace 4th Edition! ALL HAIL THE BIG BLUE BOOK!!! ONE BOOK TO RULE THEM ALL, AND IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM!!! Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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