> From: Benedict Adamson <badamson_at_...>
>OPTION B: Ken cements Magic Sword 1W:
>Now Ken has a combat ability of 1W and a politics ability of 20. In
>effect he has increased his Close combat from 13 to 1W for the
>expenditure of 1 HP. There is no situation in which Bob is better
>than Ken. Natalie can not run any episodes that counteract the
>unbalancing produced. Ken can do everything for himself; there are no
>situations in which Ken will be out of his depth and have to rely on
>Bob: Bob's contribution to the game has been reduced.
I have two problems with this. First, in my games (am I really unusual?) a
player who impoves 0 points into CC probably won't cement a magic sword
(unless it helps her in politics etc).
Second, I just don't accept "can not run any episodes that counteract the
unbalancing produced" argument. I can think of loads:
- a chaos creature immune to magic swords
- a tavern brawl with no weapons
- a thief steals the magic sword
- the owner magic sword gets bad breath which gives her a -20 on all
politics rolls
and so forth (in about 2 minutes of thinking).
Thom