Alternatives to Dependancy: Mana

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Harald387

Anything that will result in on-the-fly recalculation of skill levels or encumbrance levels (especially encumbrance!) should be avoided like the plague. If a character's basic attributes are going up and down with the mana levels, you're going to end up wanting one character sheet for each possible mana level, and that's an insane amount of bookkeeping.

It isn't complicated at all if it's consistent across the board.

In other words, if all stats are at -3 or -6, then you can just say roll at -3 to skill, etc.

Move/Dodge are also negligible, you can just say in this area you're at -1.5, in this one at -3, no math needed, no recalculations needed.

No bookkeeping needed at all, just the GM saying your current penalty/bonus is X.