Re: session re****t

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:12:51 -0600, "gleichman"
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> wrote:

>
>"Erol K. Bayburt" <ErolB1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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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.

OK, I hadn't realized that I was talking to someone who runs Champions
with characters having point differences of up to 1000 or more points.
But do you realize how *unusual* that is? It's something I might
expect to see work in the hands of a strong Dramatist, or someone who
otherwise runs "rules light" and ignores 90% of the rules in actual
play, but I'm awed at the though of a strong Gamist like yourself
managing to do that. 

-- 
Erol K. Bayburt
ErolB1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]