03-30-2022, 01:40 PM | #81 | ||
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Re: Spear vs Knights... am I missing something?
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"The first fighter is a wealthy knight-type with muscles, health, and armor, armed with a nice spear." |
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03-30-2022, 04:10 PM | #82 |
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Re: Spear vs Knights... am I missing something?
Given that his Wealth is only Comfortable and his relatively low total point value, he looks like an average poor knight who is trying to make ends meet by skipping scutage.
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03-30-2022, 09:11 PM | #83 | ||
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03-31-2022, 12:34 AM | #84 | |
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Pretty obviously the second, don't you think? Yeah, beefy dude, obviously has been through some training, but the only way that fellow's going to get knighted for being a "great warrior" is being real lucky at the right place, at the right time, with the right people watching.
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03-31-2022, 02:32 AM | #85 |
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03-31-2022, 04:37 AM | #86 |
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03-31-2022, 04:40 AM | #87 |
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Re: Spear vs Knights... am I missing something?
I wanted to come back to this and comment that I really, really like this suggestion and think I'm going to adopt it into my "Gritty House Rules" set.
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03-31-2022, 07:01 AM | #88 |
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Re: Spear vs Knights... am I missing something?
You guys did see this line in the OP, right? "And with this I've considered two fighters of 58 points each(excluding what else they spent points on)." So you who are oh-noing over the lack of Status and whatnot are sort of missing the point. Though that does make it odd to include Wealth in that writeup.
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03-31-2022, 07:05 AM | #89 | |
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03-31-2022, 08:15 AM | #90 | |
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Then again, I'm famously not a literalist, but an interpretive reader between the lines . . . I give a lot of credence to offhand remarks like that one, and fill in the blanks with what makes sense to me even when it isn't spelled out. I suppose that's why my writing habit of using "e.g." and "etc." a lot drives some GURPS fans crazy: They think my lists are exhaustive when they're very definitely intended as examples. Be warned! I always take it as given that my readers can interpret me and, as a reader, that other writers are similarly extending me the benefit of the doubt. Anyway, I suspect Wealth was included because some gamers deem gear to be part of the character, and gear is bought with Wealth. It's an attempt to assign a point value to gear. Of course, that's rather iffy given that effective gear is often ugly but cheap, while elaborate gear is often ornate but useless . . . and given that in actual play, PCs rapidly accumulate all kinds of stuff that has nothing to do with their Wealth level. Probably for the purpose of this kind of thread, it would be easier to assign an arbitrary point cost to each $X of useful combat gear. Certainly, if gladiatorial pit matches are your thing, you ought prohibit Wealth and ornate gear, and just assign a point-value-equivalent to all weapons and armor.
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