Re: Re: Conversion tables and scales (tricky situations)

From: Toksickburn_at_...
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:08:54 EDT


>But between Superman and Iron Man or Spiderman ? Things are not so
>clear...
 

I dont think my examples are to simple, but you have to look at it from a different angle !  

Its story, story, story !  

Forget about your examples. It doesnt matter who you want to pit against whom. Its always rating against rating, doesnt matter how many masteries we are talking here !  

It all depends on your game. How are the player characters related ? They will probably be all in more or less the same league in the beginning. So you wont have one character with superstrength 17 and another one with superstrength 17M6.
Lets say you use the usual technique to stat up your characters. That means all your starting heroes will have ratings between 17 and 5M.  

Now the story begins. In one scene you want to show your players how cool they are so you pit them against some villains with lower ratings.  

They players win, they learn something about the game mechanics, now you want to provide them with a challenge, so antagonists of equal strength pop up. Maybe your players win again and now find out who the bad guy behind all of this is - we are talking about "boss-monster" here. So boss-monsterá, ahem boss-super-villain´s, ratings are greater than the heroes´.
What will they do ? Will they be able to defeat boss-villain if they all team up ?
Will they be defeated and come back with a vengeance in the next episode ? Thats story !
See, what i mean ?!      

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