"Benedict Adamson" wrote:
> HOWEVER, Narrators beware of assigning large ratings to keywords for
> NPCs. As each keyword covers numerous abilities, the resulting NPC is
> likely to have some applicable ability that is high. The only option
> for the players would then to plough all their HPs into Close Combat
> and use that every time.
>
I always keep the ratings on keywords between eight or twelve points below their main ability, which for the majority of my NPCs is Close Combat. NPCs will operate on the basis that they will raise their best skill up to be the best warrior/hunter/healer/whatever. I am in the process of trying to encourage my players to use alterative abilities for their attacks/actions to get their opponents AP and TN down to a lower number. However it isn't easy but I will presevere. They have started using their HP the raise other abilities so their heroes are 'more rounded' so there is some hope.
... Aeolia, where the storm-clouds have their home, a place teeming with furious winds from the south. Here Aeolus is king, and in a vast cavern he controls the brawling winds and the roaring storms, keeping them curbed and fettered in their prison. Resentfully they rage from door to door in the mountainside, protesting loudly, while Aeolus sits in his high citadel, sceptre in hand, taming their arrogance and controlling their fury.
Virgil. The Aeneid.
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