Re: Re: Animal Followers

From: KYER, JEFFREY <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:25:58 -0400

Wulf Corbett wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:10:30 EDT, TTrotsky_at_... wrote:
>
> ><< The rules allow use of keywords, which is a good help, but it doesn't work
> >for animals>>
> >
> > Whyever not? All you have to do is define a racial keyword 'horse' and
> >make it equivalent to the base abilities for a horse in the Creatures chapter.
>
> It's a good basis, I agree. But Followers improve as the Hero does,
> always -8 and -12 from the Hero's best rating. How does that work with
> a horse or alynx? Not every natural rating should increase like this,
> certainly not indefinitely. For a start, most ratings wouldn't start
> off at the standard -8/-12, they'd start at the values in the rules. I
> don't mind a case-by-case basis, but as the concept of Follower
> animals was in the basic rules, I thought it would have been
> considered.
>
> Wulf

I would humbly suggest that the narrator should use his common sense about this. In my games it has been a non-issue and there are several animal followers kicking around (as it were) -- an alynx and a horse...

Jeff

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