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dataweaver · 05-26-2012, 06:20 PM

Thanks; I'll check it out when I get home.

The business about the Agl modifiers is something of a kludge, intended primarily to adjust for the fact that low-Force characters will tend to have low Agl scores whereas small characters shouldn't (and similarly for high-Force creatures and large creatures). It's for reasons like this that I suggested decoupling Agl, Pre, and Per from Forces over in the IN2e thread: if low-Force characters tend only to have lower Str but not lower Agl, you don't need to do any tap-dancing to get the numbers to turn out properly for them. Likewise with larger creatures.

In short, the size rules I'm proposing seem messy because they are messy; and they're messy because coupling finesse-like characteristics to Forces is messy. Size just amplifies the problem to the point that it can't reasonably be ignored.

05-26-2012, 06:20 PM	#43
dataweaver Join Date: Aug 2004	Re: GIN Ultra-Lite Thanks; I'll check it out when I get home. The business about the Agl modifiers is something of a kludge, intended primarily to adjust for the fact that low-Force characters will tend to have low Agl scores whereas small characters shouldn't (and similarly for high-Force creatures and large creatures). It's for reasons like this that I suggested decoupling Agl, Pre, and Per from Forces over in the IN2e thread: if low-Force characters tend only to have lower Str but not lower Agl, you don't need to do any tap-dancing to get the numbers to turn out properly for them. Likewise with larger creatures. In short, the size rules I'm proposing seem messy because they are messy; and they're messy because coupling finesse-like characteristics to Forces is messy. Size just amplifies the problem to the point that it can't reasonably be ignored.