08-04-2020, 09:38 AM | #31 |
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Re: Buying equipment in special ops/military type games
Not least, characterization. Safisher ran down a nice list of possible reasons why the team gets some extra gear. In game, that's an opportunity for the GM to have a slender budget, for the players to ask, and then respond, "Oh? How do you go about getting some extra gear?" The players then get to invent a solution, most likely playing to their character's strengths or at least schtick, and tell a little story, rather than having the GM do all of the invention and narration.
If you shuffle that off behind a bare statement like "here's your team budget. You can have 20% extra if you make an abstract resources roll", you lose a lot. If you don't want to spend game time on that sort of background and just get to the action, then just give them the 120% budget to begin with -- or the 100%, and just let the fight be that much more of a challenge. |
08-04-2020, 09:58 AM | #32 | |
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Re: Buying equipment in special ops/military type games
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https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki...rial_Continuum They're all pretty good episodes too.
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