P&Pv2, design questions (to Richard)

[Sylverrs_ dragon]

The thought, right or wrong, was that Con and Ap were things a person was
born with and could not alter. Thus the fixed multiplier.
The rationale with the other eight stats is allowing the player to assign
multipliers allowed him to make the character the person he wanted it to be
within the limits of its native ability and other factors that I felt have
an influence.
The result makes creating a character more complex but I feel it also makes
the resulting person more unique and important to the player.


>From: "Choinski, Burton" <Burton.Choinski at MATRIXONE.COM>
>Reply-To: Powers and Perils Fantasy Roleplaying Game Mailing List
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>To: POWERS-AND-PERILS at GEO.CITG.TUDELFT.NL
>Subject: P&Pv2, design questions (to Richard)
>Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:40:17 -0500
>
>I was playing around with some ideas for v2 as proposals to the list, or as
>a simpler "house version".  I was just tinkering with the very start of
>things, characteristics.
>
>Richard, what was the reasoning behind allowing players to alter the native
>ability modifier for the existing 8 characteristics, but not Con and App?
>What was the reasoning behind making those two "special" (besides the
>obvious mechanic in that you have multipliers that you can roll that you
>cannot allocate).
>
>WHy wasn't the system simply streamlined such that things were normalized
>for the standard "x1 to x4" range?  Or why not Emp as well?  Perhaps they
>all should use a rolled table (which will differentiate the races more),
>and
>the players simply "bid" for their rolls by adding native ability points.
>when all are used up you are stuck with what you roll.
>
>Example: Joe has 21 Native ability points.  He really wants to have a
>decent
>S and St, and so bids 5 each (the max) for each of those rolls.  He also
>wants a good con and bids 5 into that.  The remaining 6 points are bid as 2
>into A, 2 into D and 1 each into W and I.
>
>Looking at the human table, he rolls a d10 for each characteristic, adding
>any bid amount, the result being his native aptituce multiplier.  The table
>could go a little beyond 10 (perhaps 11-14 for a tad more, and 15 for 1
>level higher).  Each person would get the same number of bidding points
>(don't roll the 2d6+14), and go from there.
>
>
>Are there plans to stick with the standard 10, or will there be some
>changes
>there? (more, fewer, or different)
>
>
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