| From: | "Mark Steedman" <RSMS@***.rgu.ac.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Aura Changing - prime runners |
| Date: | Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:31:07 GMT |
>
> On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Damion Milliken wrote:
>
> > Huhn? How would it do that? You would Mask the super-cybered sammie so's
> > that he looked like an initiate magician. However, he still looks like an
> > initiate magician with 0.02 Essence. (Not that it can be done at all anyhow
> > - but hypothetically.)
> If anyone has gotten that God awful Prime Runners book, the assassin in
> the back, Teachdaire, is a level 9 Initiate and has all of 0.04 essence.
> It's possible, but not fragging likely.
>
got prime runners, read it, barely used. Far too many of the folks in
it are too specialised, too powerful or simply so dreadful you cannot
used them.
Teachdire is simply the worst case and its not as if he's a good
effort at maximising the system, you can do far far better. [and
thats with kit available when prime runners came out]
i found the characters in that book to often be unbalanced, totally
unreasonable in very narrow fields but lack basic sensible defenses
e.t.c. in other areas, its like FASA tendancy to spinkle spell locks
on NPC's like confeti, but can they lock really useful spells, no
they have to mess about with combat sense and armour when +3D6
initative, detect enemies and +4 body would be far more effective.
[esp the latter to replace innane armour spells with 4 success that
are equivalent to +2 body spells in game mechanics that don't cover
half as much (eg power spell target nos and poisons), come on FASA]
Take the Dragon, so its got force 20 spells, big deal, it will still
kill itself from the drains because they didn't bother putting in the
notes that dragons should either not take drain, or less than standard
[they have 4th world dragon magic after all, though exactly what that
allows them to pull i would ahve to do ED gm level cheking]
It's also missing basic sense like +3D6 initative, barrier spells (to
cope with those idiots that want to go dragon hunting with military
grade weapons etc, its got quickening and 5 tons of masking! ok its
not hard to sort it out but if they want to put attributes (why a
great dragon needs them considering if you sort them out rigth you
should not be fighting them ) i don't know.(if gm's wanted to be that
mad they could create thier own.
[gripe mode off]
ok a bit of steam about FASA vented. But in other areas they do well.
If you want good NPC design try the nightstalkers and the adventure
in 'Shadowland#1'.
Mark
