From: | Erik S Jameson <esj@***.UUG.ARIZONA.EDU> |
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Subject: | Stats and Horrors |
Date: | Mon, 17 Oct 1994 20:48:14 -0700 |
MONDO karma for the troll to get a Body of 21, but I still think it is
somewhat unfair. But what to do?
I like it where you can only raise one mental and one physical attribute
to 1.5x maximum. The other stats can be raised to 1.25x maximum, rounded
off. The reason I like this is because I think it closer reflects
reality, in a sort of twisted way. I mean, those Olympic wieght lifters
and those grotesquely huge body builders very clearly have a Strength of
somewhere around 9. But how quick are they? NOT VERY. That kind of
muscle mass really takes away from flexibility, and you are taking those
quick-firing speed muscles sprinters rely on and converting them into
weight-lifting muscles.
In this way, I feel it evens things out. This way, sure, the troll can
have the Body of 21, but he won't have a 16 Strength or something,
without cyber. I don't know, but it's what I use.
Erik, a.k.a. the Whistler