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ravenfish · 08-10-2017, 05:44 PM

I have mixed feelings about the idea- the part of me seeking to create worlds where "best-of-the-best" level skills are correspondingly rare is all in favor; the part of me that wants players to get fair value for their character points is more conflicted.

For what it's worth, T-Bone posted an alternate pricing scheme a while back with exponentially increasing skill and attribute costs, and some interesting things this pricing scheme lets one do with defaults and styles:

http://www.gamesdiner.com/escargo

08-10-2017, 05:44 PM	#8
ravenfish Join Date: May 2007	Re: Setting in-Campaign PC attributes & skills improvement curves I have mixed feelings about the idea- the part of me seeking to create worlds where "best-of-the-best" level skills are correspondingly rare is all in favor; the part of me that wants players to get fair value for their character points is more conflicted. For what it's worth, T-Bone posted an alternate pricing scheme a while back with exponentially increasing skill and attribute costs, and some interesting things this pricing scheme lets one do with defaults and styles: http://www.gamesdiner.com/escargo __________________ I predicted GURPS:Dungeon Fantasy several hours before it came out and all I got was this lousy sig.