Re: session re****t

"Erol K. Bayburt" <ErolB1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Except that this creates a powerful temptation for everyone to play a
> paladin, with no one wanting to play the core class, instead. And your
> attempt to balance it by:

I've never encountered any group or any players for that matter who
thought 
that way, and I've ran for some die hard power-gamers at various times.
And 
as I note in another post, even MMO players (noted for non-rp power gaming

if anyone is) wouldn't jump at it.

Those who would seek powerful characters do so for reasons that are 
completely countered by the Paladin behavior requirements- at least the
ones 
I put upon them. They has been about 4 that I recall in the sister game
and 
one in my in over 25 years. Of those, only one had a lengthy in-game
career 
and hes... dead now.

> might work for your group, but not, IMO, for most groups. It's like a
> Champions character built on 250 points (100 + 150 in disads) vs one
> built on 100 points and no disads. They're both "net" 100 points, but
> the first one is so much more powerful as to render the second
> unplayable.

You're talking to someone who plays Champions per concept and not points.
I 
run games that are balanced with point differences between characters of 
over 1000.