Re: [HOE] Limiting starting char?

[John.Hostetter@hsc.com]

Comments interspersed below...


>
>So here's one:
>Recently my Marshal (Hi Bob!) "reset" his campaign because the power level
>was higher than he wanted (we had a templar, a syker, a doomsayer, and a
>greenie/companion/with a gadget).
>In order to keep things lower leveled he made the following restrictions:
>No BELONGIN's higher than 1
>No Dinero higher than 2
>Only newbie Arcane Backgrounds (doomies had to be acolytes, sykers
>greenies, templars squirers, etc...)
>No skill higher than 4
>No VotWW (either or 'em)

I like this idea, I might do something similar in the next HoE campaign I
run.
My only consideration is this:  What if the player wants to be a road
warrior, 1 belongin point isnt enough to get a vehicle?  I'd likely allow a
car or some such if the player really wanted it.

Question:  What do you do with the arcane backgrounds that dont have a
"Newbie" version?
No one gets to play them?  Or do you limit the powers in some way?


>My theory for the arcane backlash is that while AB's have a lot of
>wiz-bang, flashy appeal, in the long run they are less satisfying to play.
>Mainly because it is too easy to fall back on abilities that essentially
>aren't your own. How much of a challenge is the fight when you know you
>can shoot beam of energy out of your hands or re-roll any bad rolls you
>get or take over your opponent. How much more exciting is it when your
>char. is down to three bullets and somehow he manages to use those three
>to stop the X from killing the Y town blah, blah, blah...

>What do other people think?

On the whole I really like it!  Do you still allow edges like super
soldier?  What about the soldier edge? Not being able to take a few levels
in rank and the appropriate belongins really lessens the value of the edge,
but I guess thats the point behind the "No veterans" edge as well. Hmmm...
Interesting possibilities.  I might consider not allowing any edges with a
value of 5 either (at least not without specific Marshal permission).

Marshal John