From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug
Meerschaert
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ogf-d20-l] Does it make sense for PCs to make things?
<< > << If the technical guys can get a profit when the others can't, the
*game*
> is broken. >>
Proft: an in-game benefit. >>
Ability to use vibro-blade with no proficiency penalties: an in-game
benefit. And your point?
<< Anyone can use a Vibro-blade. >>
Anyone can buy tech skills.
<< Anyone can learn to use the force. >>
Anyone can learn tech skills.
<< > Or maybe, just maybe, different characters are good at different
things...
Actually, it's important that when one person gets to do something in a
safe environment that immediatly improves their characters, *all* of
them should have that chance. >>
Why? A soldier can hire out as a mercenary, and probably has a resume to win
the job. A tech doesn't. A diplomat can gain access to the seats of
privilege and power, and probably has the contacts to do so.
And all of them have all of those chances; but the classes define which
chances are easier for which characters. Doesn't change the fact that the
game gives short shrift to tech characters.
Martin L. Shoemaker
Emerald Software, Inc. -- Custom Software and UML Training
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www.EmeraldSoftwareInc.com
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