[Torg] possibility adventure costs

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Phil Dack <philipdack at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  --- Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:
>  > As others have mentioned, an advantages/drawback system
>  > is often approached as a solution but there's a lot
>  > to account for that most other systems don't consider,
>  > like axiom/WL requirements. How much is a Magic axiom
>  > 10 requirement drawback worth
>
>  Which is why for single, non-game breaking packages I think the
>  contradiction / reconnection issue plus the balance against
>  non-inherent tools and abilities of other cosms is balance
>  enough.
>
>  And yes. No tharkoldu or ravagon characters. How better to
>  destroy the emotive fear and mysticism of the two most potent
>  enemy races than by making them PCs?!
>

Well even before I ever had someone play tharkholdu or ravagons.. no
one considered them to be scary. Little kids with glowing red eyes yes
scary. Evil mad scientist's with really bad dialog were always
considered scarier than a group of ravagons (even after they released
rules on making ravagons more powerful). The biggest issue is that the
Torg character creation and growth rules were written ad-hoc as the
game was being expanded without any thought about overall balance and
power growth... each cosm written had more power than the last one
without any reasoning behind it and that shows.

Actually the only thing the party was scared of was the tharkholdu
decks because they were made out of possibility rated people... having
to feed and change the diaper on your deck made them more uneasy than
the tharkholdu who formerly carried it. Did the tharkholdu bring them
down to no possibilities and kill one of the characters.. yes. But
they just found him gorey not scary.


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