 Linear Attribute Costs - Pros and Cons |
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A player of mine has asked me about changing the costs for increasing Attributes with Karma to a linear model, similar to character creation. He wants every +1 to an Attribute score to cost 20 Karma flat. In his opinion, this should reduce the need for Min-Maxing.
I've juggled some numbers now, but I can't seem to make heads or tails out of this. To me, it seems like you can always Min-Max if you're so inclined. A linear cost curve just seems to reduce the negative impact for maxing, allowing you to build up the character's strenght without paying the price for it. So, am I missing something here? Btw, I build my NPCs to be internally consistent instead of tailoring them to the group, thus powergaming is not mandatory in my games. |
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The_Vanguard Linear Attribute Costs - Pros and Cons Nov 27 2010, 01:21 PM
Mäx Thats smells heavily of power gaming.
Just use kar... Nov 27 2010, 01:27 PM Rotbart van Dainig Either you build characters with karma, or you adv... Nov 27 2010, 03:42 PM
The_Vanguard QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig @ Nov 27 2010, 05... Nov 27 2010, 05:28 PM Rotbart van Dainig QUOTE (The_Vanguard @ Nov 27 2010, 07:28 ... Nov 27 2010, 06:51 PM The_Vanguard QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig @ Nov 27 2010, 07... Nov 29 2010, 10:48 AM Rotbart van Dainig Sure. As a GM, I would probably expect such a char... Nov 29 2010, 11:05 AM Draco18s QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig @ Nov 27 2010, 01... Nov 29 2010, 03:42 PM Ole_I Sounds to me like this will somewhat reduce the ... Nov 27 2010, 03:50 PM Rotbart van Dainig That is disregarding the little fact that you also... Nov 27 2010, 04:04 PM Shinobi Killfist Other than some kind of world building design wher... Nov 27 2010, 04:16 PM Ole_I You can still have good pools for your main skills... Nov 27 2010, 04:21 PM nezumi As was said, the min-maxing is more a result of us... Nov 27 2010, 05:04 PM Rotbart van Dainig RP won't substitute making tests nor provide b... Nov 29 2010, 03:49 PM Draco18s QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig @ Nov 29 2010, 10... Nov 29 2010, 03:58 PM Rotbart van Dainig QUOTE (Draco18s @ Nov 29 2010, 05:58 PM) ... Nov 29 2010, 04:09 PM Draco18s QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig @ Nov 29 2010, 11... Nov 29 2010, 04:19 PM Rotbart van Dainig QUOTE (Draco18s @ Nov 29 2010, 05:42 PM) ... Nov 29 2010, 05:13 PM Draco18s QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig @ Nov 29 2010, 12... Nov 29 2010, 06:10 PM pbangarth QUOTE (Draco18s @ Nov 29 2010, 01:10 PM) ... Nov 29 2010, 06:43 PM Draco18s QUOTE (pbangarth @ Nov 29 2010, 01:43 PM)... Nov 29 2010, 06:51 PM Kyrel Arguably you can always min/max if you are so incl... Nov 29 2010, 03:53 PM Kagetenshi QUOTE (The_Vanguard @ Nov 27 2010, 08:21 ... Nov 29 2010, 04:00 PM Karoline This seems to have gone onto a weird Rollplay vs r... Nov 29 2010, 06:48 PM  |
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