Re: Playing Powerful Characters

From: David Dunham <david_at_...>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:19:08 -0800

Andy

> This would solve the problem I have in my infrequently
> meeting game where characters don't increase in ability fast enough over
> years of play (from a player perspective). I know that there are other ways
> to address this (such as arbitrary fast forwarding), but I'd like a way
> that preserves my season-by-season or week-by-week pace of adventures.

I ran across some "generational rules" that I don't think I got to playtest much:

• At the end of each year, you get two hero points of improvement, which can be spent raising a single skill or adding new ones. You can also increase any ability by one, so long as its new value doesn't make it your best or second-best skill (including ties).

[The idea of the second sentence is to encourage those weird skills you can never justify raising with hero points. If it's one of your 3 best skills, you don't need the free increase.]

• every other year, you get one point of improvement in your main economic skill (i.e. one which could plausibly make a living -- weaponthanes can't just choose Close Combat)

[I might drop the "every other year" part, given the published Hero Wars abilities are higher than I was using at the time, and since average NPCs wouldn't use these rules.]

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