Re: Re: HQ Beginner - Character Generation questions

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:14:50 +0100 (BST)

• Thorsten <eisigerprinz_at_...> wrote:
  > I don't know what mini-max means, but it sounds like
  > "getting the most
  > out of the character" to me. No, that's not my
  > intention.
  

It's a hard one to explain, easy to recognise. Playing the numbers rather than the story, perhaps. Doing tricks like advancing an ability that's at 13 to 15 and no further, because that's when it becomes a +2 augment not a +1, and ignoring questions like how important it really is to your character vision.

> The question really is "Is it common
> practice to select the 'right' type of common magic
> abilities during
> character generation or is that considered
> powergaming?"

Yes :)

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