Erik Sieurin:
> Sounds good, but could you provide some concrete descriptions, please?
Dang, bluff called! OK, here's the table looted out of the earlier HW draft.
Frequence of Occurrence | Bonus
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Many times per episode | +1/-1
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Once per episode | +2
|
Once every few episodes | +3
|
Hardly ever | +6
|
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So, if I take an 'ability' like 'Hate Black Oak Clan', then it applies _only_ in that narrow set of circumstances: it implies little, if any, likelihood of hating anyone else, after all. Let's say I get a +3, or maybe a +6 for it. Let's say +6, since it's only actually _useful_ fairly rarely. Because of that relative narrowness, I get to increase it (let's say) +3 per 1HP. If it was a little bit more common, perhaps it would only be +2 per 1HP.
To take the 'sit-mod' case, let's take an ability such as ' Sword and Shield Fighting'. Suppose I want a modifier, such as 'skilled at fighting trolls', or 'knows tricksy disarm maneouvers', or whatever. Then I 'buy' both the base ability, _and_ the modifier, for which I get the bonus as above, when it applies. Also, I can increase the size of the bonus if I lavish extra HPs on it, as above.
Cheers,
Alex.
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