[Torg] shrinking

[Kansas Jim]

Tommy writes:

[Mark asked about Shrinking's adventure cost of 12 PP]

> I could be wrong on this, as I don't have access to my books to cite 
> chapter and verse, but I believe the rationale was that Shrinking was 
> extraordinarily rare in Pulp stories, mostly relegated to plot devices 
> like the villain's "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" shrink ray. Basically the 
> same approach GURPS briefly took with advantages, basing the cost on 
> rarity rather than utility. Somewhat related to the (probably after the 
> fact) explanation that the reason Super-Attributes cost more than 
> attribute packages in other Cosms is that players have more freedom in 
> how many points they buy and how they're distributed.

That's pretty much it, I don't remember if it was in Infiniverse or
online but WEG said that Shrinking's cost was set that high to make it
an extremly uncommon power.

And then a year later they gave us the Keefee, allowing you to play
a permanently shrunk character for no adventure cost....

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Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
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