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Old 02-27-2016, 12:06 AM   #66
Infornific
 
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Default Re: Knowing Your Own Strength - Tank Smasher

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Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
That's a reason why I'm adverse to drastically changing the damage progression - it's a good idea for a 5e-style edition change, not so much for a "Slot this in with minimal effort at character creation" kind of module.



(While we're redoing everything, please for the love of little appleberries, can change it to "Injury Reduction" instead of "Damage Reduction"? Most confusing name choice ever.)

The problem I have with this is the same as the problem I have with Enhanced Move, and I really have with Enhanced Move with Second Nature - there are now two scales for buying attributes again. It smells of the 3e problem where you have an orc with ST 15 and a human with ST 15 and they each paid different amounts for it.

Blech. Blech. Blech. It feels dirty. it feels REALLY dirty because it doesn't have any guidelines about when you buy regular ST vs Super ST, so you end up with situations where you've bought (eg) 6 levels of Super ST, and buying one level of regular ST for 10 points now gives you +100 ST. Should that be right?
Fair enough. Part of the logic behind using a leveled Advantage was to create something that could be bolted on to the existing rules. There's an alternate version that's more granular - basically steadily reduce the cost of ST as ST rises. Something like

From ST 11 to 20: Cost as is.
From ST 21 to 30: +1 ST/5 points.
From ST 31 to 70: +2 ST/5 points.
From ST 71 to 100: +3 ST/5 points.
From ST 101-200: +1 ST/1 point.
From ST 201-300: +2 ST/1 point.
From ST 301-700: +4 ST/1 point.
From ST 701-1000: +6 ST/1 point.

etc.

Basically, costs work out the same as Super ST:

15 ST costs 50 points
20 ST costs 100 points
30 ST costs 150 points
50 ST costs 200 points
70 ST costs 250 points
100 ST costs 300 points
150 ST costs 350 points
200 ST costs 400 points
300 ST costs 450 points
500 ST costs 500 points
700 ST costs 550 points
1000 ST costs 600 points

etc.

I would probably drop the ST cost discount for Size and perhaps make increased Size a leveled Disadvantage.
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