01-05-2009, 04:33 AM
Supes posted here, so I'm going to post, too!
We had something that was like "Vices" or "Failings" or summat tied to traits. Yes, you could get a bonus when fighting a stronger opponent with Defiant, but you'd have a weakness too - an Achilles heel - that the saga runner could occasionally exploit if he wanted to. Cowardice, Pride, Lechery, and Gullibility were among these.
In the end it was decided that if any playing off of disabilities or Vices or whatever was entirely in the hands of the saga runner that it likely wouldn't be used all that much and that, while an interesting idea, didn't really gel with the kind of player freedom we had set up.
As to this idea: Flat XP one-time bonuses doesn't make sense to me. The adding of a multiplier to your gained XP would be unbalanced, cheesy, and also not fun. Being able to get more abilities by having disabilities would, I'm sure, lead to a few people becoming blind, wheelchair-bound, one-armed kickass new Gods, and undermine one of the pieces that I think make this system distinct: You have two abilities unless you've done some amazing shit to earn more. Powers = effort and all that.
My two cents.
We had something that was like "Vices" or "Failings" or summat tied to traits. Yes, you could get a bonus when fighting a stronger opponent with Defiant, but you'd have a weakness too - an Achilles heel - that the saga runner could occasionally exploit if he wanted to. Cowardice, Pride, Lechery, and Gullibility were among these.
In the end it was decided that if any playing off of disabilities or Vices or whatever was entirely in the hands of the saga runner that it likely wouldn't be used all that much and that, while an interesting idea, didn't really gel with the kind of player freedom we had set up.
As to this idea: Flat XP one-time bonuses doesn't make sense to me. The adding of a multiplier to your gained XP would be unbalanced, cheesy, and also not fun. Being able to get more abilities by having disabilities would, I'm sure, lead to a few people becoming blind, wheelchair-bound, one-armed kickass new Gods, and undermine one of the pieces that I think make this system distinct: You have two abilities unless you've done some amazing shit to earn more. Powers = effort and all that.
My two cents.
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