Re: [DL] Re: deadlands-digest.20020127

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

At 04:21 PM 1/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
 >Well, what worked good, the skill points times 3 or skill points times 2.5?
 >I've been looking at it a little, & I'm leaning towards the 2.5 myself--
 >make them pay a little extra for that 5 in gun shootin'.

Coordination * Die type.

On paper, it averages to a 2.5, but when people figured out the system, 
they started placing their high coords into the appropriate traits, so it 
came to about a 3 average.

Which is fine - it gave some competition to Vigor, Quickness, and Strength 
for stats that players place their 3's and 4's into.

What was nice were the players who did the math and figured out that it 
came out to about the same number of skill points - yet they were still 
influenced into buying a broader range of skills instead of buying a small 
number of fives.

It was more complex - especially given that I had a number of new players 
in the game.  But character creation is over.

One question for the gallery - I have a player who drew double jokers 
during character creation.

I use a tarot (Cagliostro - cheap but not so 
new-age-every-card-is-a-touchy-feely-good-result) deck for mysterious 
pasts, linking the draw with the character to come up with something 
unique.  This player drew:
Red Joker:  9 diamonds (coins in other decks)- 
Accomplishment.  Effect.  Achievement.  Good Health.  Material 
Well-being.  Difficulties surmounted.
Black Joker (card inverted) The Popess (high priestess)- Spiritual/Physical 
love.  Ignorance.  Shortsightedness.  Lack of 
Understanding.  Selfishness.  Acceptance of Superficial 
knowledge.  Improper judgement.  Shallowness.  Conceit.

Okay - and this player is running a 2nd story man thief type whose cover is 
a buyer/seller of artwork.  His primary weapon is knife.  He also took 
arcane background - unknown.  Leaving it to be discovered and developed 
during gameplay.


Anyone have any suggestions on how to weave all this together?  I can think 
of a few things that tie into the thief background but nothing. . . 
special.  I'd like something with a good wow factor to reward the player 
for having such a character to begin with, and to tie a majority of his 
elements into a coherent whole.

 >Jeff S
 >
 >
 >
 >> >>Hey, Allen, tell us how it works; I'm interested in knowing if it is
 >successful or not.
 >> >>
 >> >>(that being starting up stats with bounty points rather than a 1:1 skill
 >points.)
 >>
 >>It took a while, but everyone got their characters created.
 >>
 >>It was a bit more complicated, but using the die type x coord.  really had
 >>a good effect on skill levels.
 >>
 >
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