| From: | Michael Broadwater <mbroadwa@*******.GLENAYRE.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: [SR3] Character Generation |
| Date: | Wed, 9 Jul 1997 09:08:16 -0500 |
>I also like playing the slightly aged rat shaman who's fallen out of favour
>of his totem. He's a liar, and a thief. And no where near as good as he
>acts, but he gets the job done, for the most part. Oh, would now be a bad
>time to mention that he doesn't have any stats at all, he's just a
>_Character_?
So, what your advocating isn't the playing of a game, but that a bunch of
people get together and bullshit about what their characters are and what
they do, and when it comes to doing anything, everyone just arbitrily
decides what happens? Even diceless games have stats to dictate what
someone can and can't do. Apparently, you've transcended the need for
stats and have left us lowly mortals to our dice and character generation
systems.
Under your view of things Adam, their shouldn't be any generation system at
all. None. I mean, you make a character, and stats are totally
unimportant, so why bother? But, if you do use stats (some of us peons
surely will) they don't have to reflect your character.
"My character is rich. He's got a nice apartment, lots of nice clothes,
loves the theatre, and hangs out with the up and comers of the city. He
shadowruns as a sideline to try and help the downtrodden."
"But you've only got resources C."
"Well, character is more important than some silly stat. I'll just ignore
that. Sheesh."
Well, as far as I can tell, you don't like any generation system because no
matter what, stats don't matter, character does. And stats don't actually
reflect what you can/can't do and anything about you at all.
Go have fun with your character (which by mentioning I guess means the rest
of us (or maybe just me?) are powergamers who don't really know how to
roleplay, can I sit at your knee and learn, oh great one?) and the rest of
us will go play Sr.
Rasputin-the-trying-to-get-into-an-Sr-book-magekin
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