| From: | Tom Pendergrast <pendergr@***.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: ??? (WAS : Quickened spells and Horrors.) |
| Date: | Mon, 13 May 1996 21:53:53 -0700 (PDT) |
>
> It's just you. They're your words. Unless some nasty person sends email in
> your name from time to time...
((Must be. Because I sure didn't say some of the things you <guys?> say
I did.))
> ><Again> The mage in questin was not mine. My char in that group had
<snip>
> The GM may like to play cybered people more, but from what I'd seen you type
> he lets mages run rampant through the camapign. Now, he may let everyone
> run rampant through the campaign, so it might actually be balanced. But I
> haven't seen any posts along those lines from you.
((I don't see how he's letting anything run rampant. Our GM is one of
the more moderate GMs I know. I letting someone 'run rampant' means not
heavy-handedly coming down on them and saying "I don't care if you earn
another 50 karma and go through 5 ordeals, I'm not letting you initiate
again" then so be it-- We don't do stuff like that. If you've earned
something, then you get it.))
> >((How did you get that way? Were you handed extra stuff, or did you
> >transfer the char from another campaign? (The latter of which is
> >perfectly acceptable, so long as the char fits into the new one)))
>
> I picked up a copy of SRII and within an hour I knew how to powergame it.
> TopCat was powergamed at creation. From there I started writing and doing
> little side runs with the GM, because I wasn't happy powergaming. I used
> the karma to build up skills that reflected what I had written and what I
> had done, as well as to even out my previous min/maxing. After about 6
> months of this, I was still ahead of the rest of the team power-wise, and I
> had more peripheral skills than them as well. That's when he got retired.
((That what happened with one of my chars. I finally got beta-wired-3
and then got a bunch of other stuff (this is as I passed the one year
mark playing this guy)... after several runs I found out that he was just
too nasty to go along with the rest of the group...))
> >> Panther's real obvious.
> >((If you are recognizable like that, you have screwed up somewhere and
> >are dogmeat...))
>
> Spell signatures.
((If you're good enough to be able to cast monster force spells, then
you're good enough to cleanse your sig quite a ways...
> >((Aint being secretive and careful grand?))
>
> There's always those who're sneakier and more perceptive. Unless you get to
> get away with it.
((As you get more and more powerful, the people who are MORE powerful
than you get fewer and fewer... the likelyhood of running into one of
these chummers gets to be less and less... besides, our mage casts force
9 (effectively 11) manabolts... his magic rating is 14 (effectively 17).
The target number to spot one of those spells is ((17-11)*2) = 12.
That's a very high TN. I'm not saying it can't be seen, but the chances
(per die) are only 1 in 36.))
---Tom---
