[Torg] Improving Attributes in play: Edges

[Benjamin Grant]

>>A trained skill costs twice as much as untrained skills, whether you are
first learning them or upping an add.  

>>A teacher halves the cost of learning skills.

On what page is this information?  I think I have mentioned that I am
running off the original recipe, was this added to revised?

>>It is comendable that it is working for your group. I'm glad to hear that,
after all the point of the game is to have fun. But when I look at it, and I
see how I and my group would use it, I see nothing but an abusable system to
Munchkin behind. 

Cool.

>>>It is true that the more skills you use that are under a single
attribute, the more you may tend to get edges for it, but that seems to work
out in practice.  I guess if you think about it, and you wanted to raise a
single state over and over (like dex), it would be a total of 5 for a +1
Edge, a total of 15 for a +2 Edge, a total of 25 for a +3 Edge, a total of
35 possibilities for a +4 Edge, and so on.<<<

>>Essentially this is the crux of the issue. every + provided costs
something. If applied at the Attribute level it should cost more for the
reason you are effectively raising soooo many more skills. It is scary
scary. 

 It really isn't that scary, but I respect your right to decide to do things
more traditionally.

>>>Basically, this means that while a +1 or +2 is significantly cheaper than
normal, anything else costs the same or a lot more.<<<

>>Considering I've seen one character up 3 attributes on their character,
and only three others to up one attribute, I'm thinking this is still a bad
idea. 

Why? I don't get your point here.  (Maybe my sample set is flawed, maybe you
play with more power gamer types than I do.)  

>>>If it helps you, think of it as two extra attribute points that you can
pay for later at a good price, in case you wanted a little bit more oomph
from your character.<<<<

>>Just give them an extra attribute after the first handful of adventures.
It is easier. This is....scary.

>>SDF II

Wow, I didn't mean to spook ya...  (grin)

 

 

-Benn Grant

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