Re: [BNW] Covenant Powers: Unbalancing ?

["g. m." <gm1970@hotmail.com>]

>No, the covenant doesn't get powers through faith.  Otherwise the Regs 
>would
>have access to the same abiliteis as the deltas.

Well, they are Deltas, but that is under debate in the game world. Why do 
they all have the same powers? Why don't these powers manifest in those who 
are not "Holy" My personal take on it is that, were it not for their faith, 
they would be Blaster/Bouncer/Whatever, but God(Or whatever you want to 
atribuite it to) steped in and gave them their powers. We can do it as an 
extension of the Cleric/Paladin metaphor. There are hundreds of 
priests/knights in a fantasy setting who follow a respective god. Only those 
special few have what it takes to become a Cleric or Paladin (Which is what 
I see Covenant people more as, Holy Warriors) and get the abilities. And if 
you take this point of view, then you instantly have your handle on 
controling the Cov player. I don't have my books on me, but I do think it 
says that they can loose their abilities if they act in a way against their 
faith. If that's the case, then this is the way to handle it.


>If I play, say, a Bouncer well enough to qualify for a bloody Oscar ... and
>the Covenant player olays veryw ell, but not AS well ... the Covenant 
>player
>gets more power than me, as a "reward for good roleplaying," eh?

Well, it's not really a standard of "role playing" I've known some people 
who didn't really jump into character, but could have their character stay 
true to their alignment in actions or Clerical restrictions.

::SNIP::
>I had a few ideas (none of which my g/f would even consider, grr):
>
>NUMBER OF POWERS: one per point in faith is too much.  One, PLUS one for
>every TWO _full_ points of faith:

Interesting ideas. All my comments do come from not havin a Covt playerr in 
my campagin, and haven't made any as NPCs yet, but now I will give them a 
closer eye. And I think that I will hold them to sticking to their Faith to 
maintain their abilites.

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