Re: [BNW] Strength vs. Speed

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

This is the reply I got from Matt (sent it to him personal)

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>Ok, now that it has been established that the goliath gets his +5 for all
>str. type rolls, the next obvious question (for me anyway) is why DOESN'T
>the Speedster (and to a lesser degree of importance the Bouncer) get a
>straight +5 to speed? In fact the rules go out of there way to
>individually point out the cases where the packages get the +5, the exact
>opposite of the goliath.

>So why one and not the other? You could argue that speed effects a lot
>of skills, but so does str. and str. effects even more things (lifting,
>jumping, etc.) What's the deal?

The deal is trying to balance out the power packages and make the heroes more 
sharply realized. They are the way I intended them to be. Giving a flat +5 to 
Speed for the speedster seemed silly, since he'd then also be a better shot 
with a gun, for instance, so I chose to narrow it down to a particular subset 
of things affected by Speed. 

Thanks for playing!

Matt Forbeck
AEG