| From: | Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA> |
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| Subject: | Re: [SR3] Character Generation |
| Date: | Wed, 9 Jul 1997 14:21:27 -0600 |
>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.
'Under my view of things.'
Thats a hell of a lot for you to sum up from the 3 or 4 postings I've made
on this subject. Refrain from mis-quoting me. I never said there should
be 'no' character generation system, I said whichever one is used, it
should be standard throughout the campaign.
If you do allocate stats, of course they should reflect the character.
Otherwise, why bother allocating them?
Jake, mentioned in my last post, did get as far as picking priorities.
Magic - A, Attributes - B, Resources - C, Skills - D, Race - E
So he gets played according to that. He lives in an abandoned basement out
in renton with a few other street types, more for nessesity than the
companionship. He's fairly average with his attributes, not having any
outstanding ones, but due to the place he lives and the way he looks, he
has a low charisma. He can't drive a car and doesn't have enough money to
buy one anyways, so he takes public transportation most of the time. He
has the nessesary magic-tossing skills, but nothing extrodinary.
Making proper stats for Jake would probably take no more than 20-30 minutes
now, that I've played him and defined him a bit more.
>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.
Once again, you're expanding something I said into something I didn't say
at all. Does everything a character does need to be reflected by some sort
of stat?
>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.
I'd rather you not sat at my knee, I just got out of the shower, and I'm
wearing my house coat. And, go play Sr, because I'm certainly a lowly
cretin, but hey, I'm having fun.
-Aj
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