Holmes, Erik wrote:
There seems to be little reason to keep track of character
points after character generation with this system. If the
players and GM like it, then it makes sense, but I'd never
want to play in a game like this. If the character point
system isn't broken, then it should be used to regulate game balance.
While I agree with a lot of what you've said, I've never been one to
rely on the points to regulate game balance. Some character are really
good at making GURPS characters, some aren't. I think it's more of a
GM's job to regulate the game balance of the game.
I agree with you, it is the GM's job to regulate game balance. I'd
also add that the best tool for doing so is a working character point
system. If we stop keeping track of character points after the
character is generated, or if we change the way we calculate character
points once the game begins, then the character point system is of
considerably less use than one in which we continue to track character
points in the same manner throughout the lifetime of the character.
You're right, some people are going to create more useful character
with the same amount of point or with even fewer points. But that
doesn't imply that we shouldn't track character points consistently
throughout the lifetime of the character. It means that the character
point system is not the only indicator of the character's usefulness.
However, it is still a very good indicator, and is an even better
indicator than a character point system that abandons or alters the way
character points are tracked at some point in the life of the character.
-Mike
--
Michael Sarno
"The light of the soul is bright,
but dense clouds of human ignorance obscure it."
-Deng Ming-Dao
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