P&P problems

[Sylverrs_ dragon]

In my view the magicuser is capable of overwhelming power IF he survives to
develop his talent and gains access to the knowledge required. The balance
as I see it lies in his lower hit level because mental ability is stressed
and vulnerability when casting some of the more useful spells. The problem I
see with the magic lies in its complexity in record keeping and character
maintenance.
The stat system for creatures was a means to provide for the HPV and give
reasonable combat values for the race in question. It meshes with the
character system but, as you mention, is not an exact fit. The optional
system I included for varying the size of individual creatures provides some
variability reflective of that enjoyed by characters.



>From: Alex Koponen <akoponen at MOSQUITONET.COM>
>Reply-To: Powers and Perils Fantasy Roleplaying Game Mailing List
><POWERS-AND-PERILS at GEO.CITG.TUDELFT.NL>
>To: POWERS-AND-PERILS at GEO.CITG.TUDELFT.NL
>Subject: P&P problems
>Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:51:41 -0800
>
>Two of the problems that I have found with P&P are:
>1) The magic system tends to make users of magic very powerful, perhaps
>too powerful. They have no offsetting penalty other than the likelihood of
>having multipliers and perhaps attributes (if placement allowed) placed to
>emphasize magic rather than physical skills.
>
>Though with poor or unlucky play they may be subject to abysmal failures.
>An unlucky abysmal can be catastrophic.
>[Of course this also allows any character to learn magic to a marginal
>amount. Granted, a MEL2 EL1 wizard is all too likely to abysmal on any
>offensive magic.]
>
>2) Characters and creatures only roughly share the same attribute system.
>Evidently, in order to keep encounter creation simple, the creatures use a
>simplified system that in some (very few) cases had not been adequate.
>

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