Re: [BNW] Improving Powers Part 2

["iguana.1031" <iguana.1031@gateway.net>]

The player in my group who is running the Goliath refuses to buy his
Strength up - he feels the 18 xp it would cost would be more effectively
spent on another Trick and a skill increase than on the smidgen of a percent
increase to his chances of doing more damage.

We're coming up on our 30th game session and this has not been an issue with
my group.  I've had one person raise theur Spirit from a 2 to a 3, and the
Speedster raised his Strength so he could carry people with a smaller Pace
penalty but that was it.  Everything else has been Skills and Tricks.


----- Original Message -----
From: <MKirk2112@aol.com>
To: <bnw@gamerz.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [BNW] Improving Powers Part 2


> In a message dated 7/29/2000 2:10:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> delta63@hotmail.com writes:
>
> <<
>  I have been guiding for a while, and I haven't found this to be a
problem.
>  The goliath in my group did improve his strength, and the blaster
improved
>  his shooting skill and speed.  The goliath does more damage than when we
>  started, but the blaster does too.  Buttercup (the blaster) gets more
>  successes, so he can use Extra Damage and knockback (to slam people into
>  objects).  The same goes for most packages we have played; although you
>  can't directly improve powers, improving skills, improving traits, and
>  buying tricks indirectly improves them.  Hope I helped.
>
>  Colan Kennelly >>
>
> Thanks Colan!  Yes, this does help.  I have only been playing BNW for a
> couple of weeks so I had no idea how these sorts of issues "played
themselves
> out" over time.  I can totally see how gaining certain tricks later can
> balance out the inability to improve a Blaster's energy blast intensity.
I
> was hopeful that this wouldn't be a major issue, and it is nice to know
that
> it has not been.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Guide Matt
>
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