Re: [HoE] Luck of the Draw

[Matthew Steflik <grifflik@stny.rr.com>]

Allan wrote:

> I've adopted a house rule that if the player doesn't like their initial
> draw, they can pick 2d12, 4d10, 2d10, 3d8, 1d6, 4d6, 3d6, 3d6, 2d6, 2d6 for
> their stats.  Those are the stats that are what most of the book archetypes
> are based off of.
> It gives a good baseline power level for all the characters as most
> concepts can be fit in under this spread.  And of course, you could always
> get lucky.  No mysterious pasts if you take the default though.
>
As I've mentioned in the past (and at the risk of sounding repetitive),
we've got our own set of house rules for character generation (they're
posted at the Shelter if you're interested), and I do allow one redraw
for stats.  The catch is that in order to do so, the player must take an
automatic black joker as one of the stats    (drawing one less card for
the next stat draw), and then draw the mutation from the joker off of
Kirt "Loki" Dankmyer's Alternate Mutations Table (it's the one Loki
posted to the list a while ago, designed to be a "middle ground" between
the "minor" mutations in the main book and the "major" ones in COtA - I
really like it).  Yes, in my game this means it is "possible" to get the
effects of three jokers (wahoo!).  Too nice?  Perhaps, but I also put
some limitations on the archetypes that my players can choose.  We all
like how it works out.

Matt Steflik
Master of Wahoo
Gimme Shelter - http://www.geocities.com/grifflik/