| From: | Tom Pendergrast <pendergr@***.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: My take on Munchkinism... |
| Date: | Thu, 16 May 1996 11:18:58 -0700 (PDT) |
> Cybertechnology has pretty much covered a lot of the bases that the SSC,
> SRII, and Shadowtech left open. Spells of munchkinous proportions are out
> there, Edge Runners contains numerous examples.
Am I the only one who is REALLY beginning to hate that term? Anyway...
As far as I can tell, just about everything in SRII is more or less
(sorry) balanced... I know I was the one who brought up the monster mage
discussion, but one thing people overlook... just as 'ware has
disadvantages (yup, I play champions too), such as high essence cost,
speels have drain.... do you know how nasty the drain on a manabolt-11
is? You only cast it once, because if you do, you're screwed...
> > Finally, about long character bios. It's a nice thing and all, but
> >in the end, too long a bio will always bog down your gaming.
<snip>
> I never have to leaf through a bio to figure out anything about my
> characters. I know the characters nearly as well as I know me if I've done
> anything right at all. I couldn't imagine ever having to leaf through a bio
> to figure out what a character would do, I wrote the bio, I know the
> character, I know what he'll do in any given situation. If you didn't write
> it, then I could see problems. Never once has a well-developed character
> bogged down a session due to having to look through his bio in my entire
> lifetime of gaming. I could be an exception, though. Am I?
Nosirreebobski... I for one could answer any question, relate any
personality trait, quirk, description, knowledge, name, place, how, what,
when, where, why, who, and his girlfriends favorite color... all from
memory, right now... I guess I come from the "Roleplaying and staying
character above all else" school of gaming... If I didn't know better, I
would have thought that I helped found it :)
---Tom---
--The former double parenthesis guy--
