Re: Power Levels

From: Sandy Petersen <sandyp_at_idgecko.idsoftware.com>
Date: Thu, 2 May 96 21:39:37 -0500


Carl Fink
>People have posted things like, "No player character in any game I've
>seen has risen above 100% skill" and said that even Argrath wouldn't
>have stats as high as Onslaught's.
>What?
>I gather none of you has seen, for instance, Sandy Petersen's
>campaign notes for Pamaltela? Those guys were *gross*, even by the
>standards of my old absurd game.

        What are you talking about, Carl? There are character stats in my campaign notes? (I'll have to go look at them again -- maybe they're in the back.) To the best of my knowledge no one has skills over 130% or so. (Most aren't near that high.) The most powerful spellcaster in the party was Mr. Man, a sexagenarian Doraddi trickster with (I think) 81 points of Rune Magic, nearly all useless trickster dreck, like Become Dirty Shirt. Oh yes, there was the broken dwarf, Gorfang, who had a 600% skill in Polishing. (That was his job for several centuries before he could stand it no more and left the warrens forever.)

        The players were mighty more because of the things they did and the things they met, not so much their stats. They met the Bird of Gifts, defeated the evil Sorceress of Sozganjio, attended a boggle banquet (they hated it), met and questioned a being who lived through the destruction of Slontos, raided a Luathan's castle (he wasn't home), captured the Old Man of the Mountain, befriended the last Hoolar in the world, burnt the Suckerbunny Tree, and raided the King of the Dead.

Sandy P.


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