RE: Re: Ability advancement

From: bernuetz.oliver_at_...
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:25:21 -0400


Thom said :

>Wow. This seems to be predictated on a very wierd (to me) Hero Wars group.
>In my experience no player has ever added more than +1 to an ability at a
>time. My group meets at best fortnightly. Many sessions are 2 episodes and
>even the most commonly used abilities (e.g., close combat) are used every
>session in my games. I also give many directed HP awards and players often
>spend HPs for bumps.

>My players will be lucky to get +15 in a heavily used and HP bough-up
>ability in one calendar year.

>Even spending 3 HP for +2 in a "related" ability every week for a year ()
>gets only 6 masteries in your best ability (a more realistic asymptotic
>limit).

Every campaign and every group of players is different. No one has ever spent a Hero Point to bump in my campaign and the best skill is already 15W after ten sessions in less than a year's game play. Players have freely spent more than 1 HP at a time on abilities and have raised affinities as well. Everyone's different.

Oliver

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