Re: session re****t

"Neelakantan Krishnaswami" <neelk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:slrnerikc4.25r.neelk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> However, I think that a lot of Hero system players would find this
> kind of character creation system extremely unsatisfying, because I
> think that Hero is one of those systems that attracts players who find
> /making/ characters more fun than /playing/ them.

I think this is somewhat overstated. I've made a lot of characters, and 
playing them is far more fun for me than building them. Even so, I imagine

some people do this for whatever reason.

The main fun I get out of HERO construction is not power optimization or
the 
like. It's simply examining various different combinations of construction

and what the result is. Perhaps most im****tantly- the translation of a 
concept into a specific game construction. "So that's how to best
represent 
a Phaser Mk II..." and so on. HERO provides some of the most detailed and 
interesting translations in the game world.

Thus you approach doesn't work. It's too grainy as it rounds all the
numbers 
off. I'd rather have the system or concepts that resulted in those end 
values so that I can examine the design at a deeper layer. Makes modifying

the rules easier too.