RE: [HOE] Re: Mundane Background

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> > Mundane Background - "Reluctant Hero": Why you? You ask yourself that
> <SNIP>
> > In game terms anytime your char. rolls a critical failure then
> > it counts as both a critical failure for him and his target. If he was
> 
> Uhh, to me this seems a BIT powerful for a 3-point Edge.  I'd say perhaps a
> 5-pointer.  Also, you said Mundane Backgrounds are avaible to ONLY
> characters WITH ABs?  I trust you meant "without"?

Yeah, it should be only char. withOUT AB's can get MB's.

Why do you think it's so powerful? In order for it to work you have to
critically fail. And it does NOTHING to stop the bad affects from occuring
to you, it just makes bad things ALSO happen to your opponent. The
edge/hinderance basically cancel each otehr out (from points perspective)
and you shouldn't discount the ability of the marshal to use you as a
total tool and plot device. That's a big penalty if you have a good
marshal.
Compared with the abilities of the AB's it doesn't seem unbalancing. I
could argue that the ability to cast Nuke and MIRV and Molecular Cohesion
on yourself is worth way more than 3pts. But there are drawbacks to being
a doomie that are supposed to balance it. Nothings perfect, but 3 pts.
didn't seem unreasonable to me...

Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab


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