Re: [BNW] Strength vs. Speed

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>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?
>

Well, just IMO, but for the Speedster, it isn't appropriate for him to have 
a +5 bonus to all the Speed-related skills.  Why should the Speedster get a 
+5 to Stealth?  Or Sailboating? Or Pilot?  Ditto for the Bouncer.

It _is_ appropriate (mostly because of the small base of skills) that the 
Goliath get a +5 strength to all such Skills.

I'm not sure if that results in an exact balance between Speedster and 
Goliath, but one gets the impression the packages aren't absolutely 
"balanced" anyway, even if you could come up with a single objective 
guideline by which to measure packages.

>-Theo McCracken, whose thoughts and ideas are solely his own and do not,
>in any way, reflect those of Jefferson Lab or its staff. Unless of
>course there is any money to made off those ideas, in which case the lab
>says: "Gimme, gimme, gimme!"


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