Re: Stormbringer is wimpy

[Anthony Thyssen <anthony@dragon.cit.gu.edu.au>]

| Mark Wedel wrote:
| >  Also, at least one reason I wouldn't really like it is that then the
| > players would start pulling out their calculators to figure out how
| > many potions they need.  IT may make things more difficult, but I don't
| > really like it for aesthetic reasons.
| 
| So add a little random bonus +/- in there - that way, they can never be
| quite sure... :-)
| 
| Oh, and rather than making it a +/-10%, make it so it's a exponential
| thing so you could get a _massive_ penalty or bonus, but its extremely
| extremely unlikely. Just like life :-)
| 
| That should annoy the compulsive number crunchers.
| 
My own thinking is that the system is crazy, and something better
should be developed.


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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