Test 1, fight 1 -- Mojo vs. Yaw

[Mojo]

Look, I don't expect anyone to make a charecter like Vor.
Vor was supposed to be an orphan silth sold to a gladiator merchant in order to fight. He isn't suppose to have a personality.
A person like Vor who is supposed to have a personality will not be accepted into any social group, at least not as a member of it, but maybe as a bodyguard or something like that.
He can't get into bars or into shops, he can't even negotiate about how much someone will pay him for his services. He'll be helpless except for when he fights. And that's why I think nobody will create a charecter like him.

[jeep]

I don't think that's true. People will make the specialists. That's why we are testing. We need to make sure they are allowed, but not broken.

-JEEP

[Yaw]

Otaku's character

mith's character

Those might not be Vors, but they get a bit too close for my liking. People have

already

made characters like Vor.

[jeep]

Another way to reduce overly specialized characters might be to change the character creation rules. It might be too late to make any changes there (and it it probably overstepping what we'd want to do) , but it was fun to think through anyway.

What follows are some ramblings and wild musings. You won't miss anything if you ignore the post.

Instead of giving 35 points to buy attributes, you can give 4000 experience points that are not tied to any Aspect. They can use that experience to buy their initial stats and abilities. That should encourage more balance in creation... They can create a completely balanced player with 3 5s and the rest 4s (as they can today) and have 200 left over for skills, so two areas of compentancy. That's probably a little light, so could have some small increase based on REA, etc.

Nithrar, which I tried to keep fairly balanced, could not quite be created in this scheme. He'd be short by 80 points.

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      Attribute  Skill
Lvl  cost         cost
1    40           10
2    120         30
3    240         60
4    400        100
5    600          x
6    840          x
7    1120        x

So everyone could still start with 4s across the board and three 5s.  To have a 7, you lose a lot more elsewhere.

Racial modifiers become more or less valuable depending on how much investment you put in initially.

Actually, I know I mentioned to not have initial experience tied to an aspect but you could manage racial modifiers by doing that.

Of the 4000, [i]Race[/i]get X extra Body Initial Experience.  

Or you could force more balance by:  All characters get 400 Body, 400 Mind, 400 Heart, and 400 Spirit experience (those are modified by racial modifiers) and 2400 generic experience.

[Yaw]

Running a few numbers for this test battle...

Reaction Check:

Probability of Vor winning check = 50%
Probability of Oduro winning check = 50%

Vor's Attacks:

Probability of hitting with one spear, fighting double speared = 72%
Probability of critical hit in this instance = 4%

Probability of hitting with both spears = 51.8%
Probability of critical hit in this instance = 0.2%

Probability of hitting while fighting with two spears = 92.2%
Probability of critical hit in this instance = 7.8%

Probability of hitting while fighting with one spear = 79%
Probability of critical hit in this instance = 6%

Probability of hitting while fighting with sword = 72%
Probability of critical hit in this instance = 24%

Oduro's Attacks:

Probability of hitting with sword = 10%
Probability of hitting given successful Focus Check = 15%
Probability of successful Focus Check = 50%
Probability of hitting with successful Focus Check = 7.5%

All numbers calculated for this particular fight.