...then where's the original need to know how many HP or saga levels you need to add over time to meet the needs of the scenarios? Seems to me that using these techniques that these things will all work themselves out. The players will simply take on whatever challenge seems appropriate to them when it seems appropriate.
Mike
>From: "Jane Williams" <janewilliams20_at_...>
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> > Sure, I have no problem with that. But it higlights the
> > essential problem.
> > Which is that the more control you give the PCs, the less
> > likely they are to hit your marks.
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>Yes. It's a problem. Writing stories I can do, I keep at least *some*
>control of the characters there, but GMing is harder.
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> > > So when *they've* decided, not me, to go to the
> > >Frozen Wastes and hit things, they won't need much of a hint to do
>some
> > >snowshoe training and combat practise.
> >
> > Well, even worse, then. I mean, how do you know that they'll
> > decide to go precisely when they've hit the benchmark in
> > question? Or anywhere near it?
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>Because I tend to provide them with a target-rich enviroment, and let
>them know the approximate difficulty of each target. They can adjust
>priorities accordingly. And HQ takes so little prep work that even when
>I was doing this F2F, I could start the session with no idea which of
>half a dozen possibilities they were going to choose to do, and still
>generate it all on the fly as needed. If they've got a particular
>challenge in mind, they'll know in advance how hard it is, and sort out
>the levels for themselves.
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> > I mean, if they've not yet seen a
> > particular wall, why can't it be precisely as tall as it
> > needs to be for it to be the right challenge when they encounter it?
> > Who'll know otherwise that it was always that height?
>
>For walls, yes, this is what I do. Unless they've heard about its height
>beforehand (from a reliable source), as you say, who's to know?
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>But if a 16-year-old decides to challenge next-door's clan champion -
>sorry, he's at the level given in the "sample resistances". And they
>knew he was far better than them before they did it. Their choice.
>Climbing Kero Fin, ditto.
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