04-23-2014, 03:26 PM | #21 | |
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04-23-2014, 03:53 PM | #22 | |
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However, I would limit it so that you could apply Size to the first (SM) levels of extra Move. Past that, you're limited to the same "up to +3 to Basic Move" that everyone else is, at full cost. (For example, at SM +4 you could buy at most Move+4 (Size, -40%) [12] and Move+3 [15].) This keeps things realistic. (Please note that I'm not giving this any sort of official blessing, just saying that I wouldn't blink if my GM were to make it a house rule.)
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04-23-2014, 03:55 PM | #23 | |
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04-23-2014, 04:29 PM | #24 | |
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04-23-2014, 05:19 PM | #25 |
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Re: Size Modifier and Basic Move
Growth on p.50 of Powers suggests Enhanced Move as opposed to Basic Move when reflecting an increased stride due to size.
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04-23-2014, 06:42 PM | #26 |
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Re: Size Modifier and Basic Move
The only reason I can see to give a price discount on a trait is if it's less useful. This explains why No Fine Manipulators gives a discount on DX: creatures without fine manipulators can't use most of the benefits DX provides.
How is moving quickly less useful to large creatures than small creatures? It's less useful to a mammoth than to a bison, and less useful to a bison than to a rabbit, and less useful to a rabbit than to a mosquito? If move is worth more to smaller creatures than it is to humans, how much more should they pay for it?
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04-23-2014, 06:45 PM | #27 |
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Re: Size Modifier and Basic Move
This gets into the 'why is SM a price discount on ST'. It makes some sense for lifting ST, since a lot of the reason you buy lifting ST is because it lets you wear more armor and SM makes your armor heavier, but that maxes out at maybe -20% on your ST as a whole, and it certainly isn't relevant to striking ST or HP, except in the way it's also relevant to move: you can't use those abilities in places you can't fit in to.
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04-23-2014, 06:54 PM | #28 | |
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Re: Size Modifier and Basic Move
I think the reason there's a discount for ST on large creatures is that high ST is overpriced for everyone, but only large creatures tend to purchase it, so that kinda-sorta does something about it. I would rather lower the price of higher ST and remove the discount large creatures receive.
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I think being large is a significant disadvantage and should give back points for that, but I think it would be better to handle that as a direct disadvantage than trying to sneak those points back in through discounts on things large creatures might not buy.
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04-23-2014, 07:03 PM | #29 | |
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SM +1, ST 15: 45 SM +2, ST 20: 80 SM +3, ST 30: 140 SM +4, ST 45: 210 SM +5, ST 70: 300 SM +6, ST 100: 360 SM +7, ST 150: 420 SM +8, ST 200: 380 Given that, I'd be tempted to make Size cost 60 (or perhaps less, if we think it's miscosted) and actually multiply your ST/HP (or maybe ST/HP/DR for a cost of 75) |
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04-23-2014, 08:12 PM | #30 | |
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10 [0] 15 [25] 20 [50] 30 [75] 50 [100] 70 [125] 100 [150] 150 [175] 200 [200] 300 [225] And so on...
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