[HOE] Re: Strain-based Martial Artists

["travis lide" <sinisterdexter@mindspring.com>]

----- Original Message ----- >
> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 12:35:12 -0700
> From: mobstyle@ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: [HOE] Re: Strain-based Martial Artists
>
> > Okay, wait.. He thought a cyborg would "unbalance" the group, and yet
> still
> > lets you walk around with the most broken Relic in the game and with a
> > 4d12+9 STR? Okay..... I'm having trouble seeing where this isn't
> unbalanced
> > as well.
> >
> > Anyway, it's his game. If he's letting you live, congratulations! You'd
be
> a
> > former Templar in my game though..
>
> Well, here's the thing, man.  There's still plenty of things in the game
> that could kick my ass...I mean, we haven't fought any Cyborgs at all yet
> (especially not ones with Armor, which makes a big difference)...not to
> mention Automatons, which, even if I did kill one with my freakin' sword,
it
> would only blow up for, what is it, like 6d20 damage?  But besides, I
really
> like this character (I'm religious IRL, so I get to rant, lol)...do all
you
> other Marshalls just whack your PC's when they get too powerful?  The way
I
> see it, that's when it should get fun for you guys, because that's when
you
> can pull out all those crazy-ass Monsters, Muties, and Misfits
> things...like...I don't know...the Jersey Seven, or Bloodwolves, and such?

I wouldn't kill a guy for having a 4d12+9 STR exclusively, no. But if I felt
that it unbalanced my group (i.e. I had to throw Bloodwolves at the party
just to challenge one guy), I'd take him out of the equation instead of
risking killing everyone else with said problem. If everyone in the group is
really powerful, that's fine. I'll just put more powerful stuff in the game.
I just don't like one person in a party of 4 being a Gabriel Roth when
everyone else is more along the lines of David Lee Roth.

Sinister "does that make sense?" Dexter
sinisterdexter@mindspring.com