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post Dec 27 2007, 09:21 AM
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The published stats for Great Dragons allow for skills above the limits placed on mere humans. Not to mention that Spirits get access to skills at their Force rating, allowing for a whole slew of skills beyond the "Ultimate Ever" ™ skill level.

What's the beef with this? Are metahumans really so limited? Anyone come up with any good systems for getting rid of the hard caps?

I tried converting our SR3 characters to SR4 directly, ignoring the hard caps (numerous character have skills in the teens, twenties and a couple beyond that) and ended up with something that mostly worked but had some inconsistencies. The main problem with just ditching the hard caps is that magic just keeps boosting your attributes to silly levels!

Anyway, if anyone has a good method they have come up with for houseruling this stuff I'd be very interested to hear about it.

I'd respectfully ask that no-one leap in defending the hard-caps and the beauty of starting the game with a character who can't improve on his key skill. Please stay on topic.
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- ShaunClinton   Limit Break   Dec 27 2007, 09:21 AM
- - FrankTrollman   What I've done is allow people to purchase the...   Dec 27 2007, 10:48 AM
- - Ryu   You could remove the hard caps on skills only? Be ...   Dec 27 2007, 10:54 AM
- - Ustio   In my high end game I use the following mechanic: ...   Dec 27 2007, 10:59 AM
- - ShaunClinton   I like the idea of increasing the multiplier on sk...   Dec 27 2007, 12:48 PM
- - Ryu   It is possible by RAW, see Augmentation (cyberzomb...   Dec 27 2007, 01:07 PM
- - knasser   QUOTE (ShaunClinton)I'd respectfully ask that ...   Dec 27 2007, 01:38 PM
- - FrankTrollman   QUOTE (knasser)Someone with Strength 5 is actually...   Dec 27 2007, 01:44 PM
- - knasser   QUOTE (FrankTrollman)QUOTE (knasser)Someone with S...   Dec 27 2007, 03:24 PM
- - Adarael   QUOTE With increasing numbers of dice, you can mor...   Dec 27 2007, 06:53 PM
- - knasser   QUOTE (Adarael @ Dec 27 2007, 06:53 PM) QUOTE...   Dec 27 2007, 09:36 PM
- - mfb   QUOTE (Adarael)Do you mean with superhuman die poo...   Dec 27 2007, 09:48 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   QUOTE (knasser)The scales for skills and attribute...   Dec 27 2007, 10:19 PM
- - Stahlseele   QUOTE What Would Samurai Do? lifting 300 kilo with...   Dec 27 2007, 10:33 PM
- - Riley37   QUOTE (ShaunClinton) Are metahumans really so limi...   Dec 27 2007, 10:38 PM
- - knasser   QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Dec 27 2007, 10:33 PM) QU...   Dec 27 2007, 11:07 PM
- - Stahlseele   QUOTE I should probably re-do that chart to includ...   Dec 27 2007, 11:31 PM
- - knasser   QUOTE (Stahlseele) QUOTE I should probably re-do t...   Dec 28 2007, 12:44 AM
- - Adarael   QUOTE (mfb) QUOTE (Adarael)Do you mean with superh...   Dec 28 2007, 01:07 AM
- - mfb   oh, yeah, if you uncap SR4, or any many-dice syste...   Dec 28 2007, 02:18 AM
- - ShaunClinton   When I converted the SR3 characters across we used...   Dec 28 2007, 10:14 AM
- - FrankTrollman   QUOTE The difference between skill level 5 and 7 i...   Dec 28 2007, 10:44 AM
- - GentlemanLoser   QUOTE The difference between skill level 5 and 7 i...   Dec 28 2007, 11:35 AM
- - knasser   QUOTE (ShaunClinton) We went back to karma values ...   Dec 28 2007, 11:44 AM
- - Ryu   It was kindly explained for me already. More dice ...   Dec 28 2007, 11:44 AM


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