From: | Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM> |
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Subject: | Building Races (Was Quick Eulogy for the passing of SR2) |
Date: | Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:34:35 -0500 |
>Once upon a time, Bull wrote;
<SNIP>
>>6. Trolls/Elves are now priority C on the race Priority. Dwarves/Orks
>>are D.
> I hope that's not the right breakdown.
<SNIP>
> I am MC23
Okay, I was thinking about creating a Race build point system to sort out
the variant metas in the SRCo, I guess I'll post what I've got :)
First, a racial stat mod cost +/- 5 points per +/- to a stat.
Stat mods with no change in the racial max costs +/- 2 points per +/-.
Low light vision costs "x" points.
Thermographic vision costs "y" points. (not neccisarily the same as
low-light)
this still leaves Resistance to disease (bought per +1 body die), +1
reach, dermal armor (bought per +1 body die), +2 to ranged target
numbers, and -1 to movement multiplier.
Assuming all the races in the BBB are balanced, then the movement
multiplier balances out with +2 versus disease, or with +1 reach & 1
point of dermal armor.
Assuming that the Cyclops in SRCo is balanced with the Troll, then cost
per misc ability (+1 reach, dermal armor, etc ...) is 2 RBPs (Race Build
Points) per level ...
For simplicty's sake, let's also assume LL vis/Thermo cost 5 points each.
This would mean that the BBB races cost a total of 15 race build points
each. Divide that by 2 and you get 10, which just happens to be the cost
of making a metahuman char ... nifty, huh?
BTW, I don't remember how I came by this number but, adding a critter
power to a race would cost 15 RBPs ... IIRC, it was somehow based on the
CFS SB's mutant animals (critter power cost 3 essence)
Just a thought but now you can (if you want) go through and calc all the
cost for the meta variants and change the costs for building them ... I
would guestimate that:
if using "more metahumans option:
60 (or maybe 80?) RBPs = "A" Pick
40 RBPs = "B" Pick
20 RBPs = "C" Pick
10 RBPs = "D" Pick
0 RBPs = "E" Pick
if not:
20 RBPs = "A" Pick
15 RBPs = "B" Pick
10 RBPs = "C" Pick
5 RBPs = "D" Pick
0 RBPs = "E" Pick
D.Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, and RuPixel)
"Let he who is without SIN cast the first stone"
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