| From: | Bob Ooton <topcat@**.CENCOM.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Munchkin Phys Adepts |
| Date: | Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:41:30 -0500 |
> depending on resources) level weapon focus.
> +Trolls with good reach
Still have to get the karma to bond it. And that just doesn't happen in
character creation. BTW, your chars have @***,000 to 700,000 nuyen to spend
on that?
>Well, he couldn't have the focus, nor could he have the phys adept extra
>dice. He will end up 8-10 dice deficient when compared to the phys adept (at
>the most munchkinous level :-)).
Right, he'd have the karma for it instead (between 15 and 30 points
according to that example).
>Hmmm. Interesting. Tell you what, you design a sammy using the base rules,
>and I'll do a phys adept. Then we'll trade characters and try it. Mayhaps
>we'll do two, one straight up after creation, one after some amount of nuyen
>and karma. What do you think?
Sure, start off base. That means NO karma. Which means no focus. Well,
you can have it, but it's just a pretty axe instead.
>Plays very little role as far as I can see. The phys adept will just have
>too many dice so that even if the sammy gets two actions to his one, then the
>combat pool advantage won't hold. Body, maybe, but the difference won't be
>huge.
Our phys ads don't get NEAR as many dice as the samurai. They have to pay
for those powers, you know... they aren't free. And 6 points can go a ways,
but not near as far as cyberware. (to make unarmed 4 to unarmed 6 costs 1
magic point...to make strength go up from max to higher costs 1.5 points per
point, same for quickness, etc. Assuming you'll want some kind of
reflexes... 1 to 4 points. Combat pool? Dice + 1 in cost... overall it's
too expensive to be on par with a sam of equal experience)
>Not in HTH (as a straight out gladiator type fighter) it doesn't. For a
>_useful_ specialisation, it quite likely would, you're right [can't get too
>far if all you can do is mash things in HTH].
Sammies can do the same. Karma spent the right (well, not right...but point
maxxing) way will give equal to more dice.
>> And specialization is once again, more of a roleplay thing than rollplay.
>To a degree, yeah. But the players's skill choices will define his
>characters fields of knowledge fairly narrowly.
Only if they limit themselves in skills. Samurai don't have to worry about
that with skillwires and spare karma. One day he's Bruce Lee Jr. and the
next he's The Terminator. Oh, and if he needs to be a nuclear physicist for
a while, he's got that covered too. And what's this "to a degree" bit? To
the Nth degree, maybe...
(wondering why samurai's combat pool doesn't seem to get enough attention,
especially when your talking about one facing a troll phys ad)
-- Bob Ooton <topcat@******.net>
