Re: [HoE] Luck of the Draw

["Caias Brian Ward" <talespinner@mindspring.com>]

If you are concerned about the card pull giving unbalanced characters
(either too powerful or too weak), or want people to make up characters
without a witness present, you might try what we do for Live Action events.
Each character has a set number of dice to spend on the stats.  In the case
of our Live Action events, we use 25d80.

If you wanted a 3d10 in something, for example, you take 3 from the 25, and
10 from the 80, leaving you with 22d70.  Your average stat will be 2.5d8,
which can give you a decent spread without uber characters.  For Mysterious
Past, we draw cards once we have a bunch of characters, and see who comes up
with the Joker (it makes it easier on us to filter through them all)

Caias Brian Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Stalker <dougs@technologist.com>
To: <hoe@gamerz.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 2:03 AM
Subject: Re: [HoE] Luck of the Draw


>
>
> "iguana.1031" wrote:
>
> > I have a question:  how many character draws did it actually take until
you
> > get one of the four-aces-plus-Jokers draw?
>
> In the case of teh 2 I was talking about, 1.  My 4 aces draw was the first
draw
> *ever* that anyone in my gaming group did, and was witnessed by the
marshall.
> The 2 joker+4 aces was also a first  draw was wittnessed by numerous
people
> including the marshall.
>
> >
> >
> > After hearing "This draw sucks, can I do it again?" one too many times,
we
> > moved to dealing out four sets of 12 cards from the deck and keeping the
one
> > you like best.  But you have to keep one of the four.
>
> I like this method, some of our posse member had to do a number of draws
before
> getting even an average character.
>
> >
>
>  - Doug
>
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