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Old 09-08-2007, 01:42 PM   #49
Pmandrekar
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Default Re: Is a 5th Edition coming soon?

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Originally Posted by whswhs
To me, this is one of the paradoxes of preferences as applied to gaming. Of course you would prefer to have exciting encounters. But you don't want your character to die, either. So you either study up on the possible adversaries, or buy up your character's abilities to cover every possible contingency, like the White Knight with mousetraps on his horse. And you end up with a character who's not threatened by any foes he runs into, or with an entire party of such characters. And now there's not much excitement in playing; "kill the monster, grab the treasure, level up" becomes a routine.

Bill Stoddard
I'm glad that someone else recognizes that there's no point in playing a game where you are guaranteed to survive, and gain in power and experience ad nauseum.

I'm going to try something where players don't level up quite as fast, but with a lot of action and adventure in GURPS. That's up next.

-P.
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