[PnP] Magic users in P&P are as weak as AD&D magicians

[Burton Choinski]

Actually, a funny joke in my group is that when they show up against the enemy, the question is "Which one is the wizard?"

The Law wizard is still kind of a Brute; He put into his physical stats because he rolled supernatural Intelligence.

Sort of a side effect of P&P's "more-or-less" classless system, since wizards can wear armor and be equipped with fighter level weapons.

On May 2, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Thomas O. Magann Jr. wrote:

> Actually, it's reduce HPV by 5, not by a FACTOR of 5 (at least as you listed it below, my books aren't handy). That would lower 20 to 15, not 4.
> 
> And, when you think about iot, it makes a certain sense. In character generation, you only have so many .5 blocks to put into stat multipliers. If you want a high Int/Em/Will for higher expertise level top outs, higher mana, and etc, you  put the multipliers there, giving you lower multipliers for St and Stam, hence lower total hits.
> 
> Of course, many players will combine spell use with martial might, and might opt for lower spell potential to achieve a higher HOV and OCV from stat maximums. NPCs will tend to be more one note, which is reflected in book 4.
> 
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Melkor 
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> When you read BOOK II in Powers & Perils, it does not state anywhere that magicians should be weaker (in terms of hit points value) than fighters or normal character who is not a magic user.
> 
> In spite of this, if you read book IV at 1.2311, it says that when you generate a NPC who is a magic user you have to reduce the total HPV result by FIVE!
> 
> So, if your total HPV is 20 it automatically drops to 4...
> 
> Logically at this point, any character who decides to have a magic-user should abide by this rule, don't you think so?
> 
> In fact, section 1.2 in book IV deals with "character class humans" and not with "normal humans" so here we are dealing with the same kind of beings that characters are, that is, "superior" members of their race.
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