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(4e) "Burned on the outside, raw in the middle."

Started by Warthur, August 20, 2007, 08:00:52 AM

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KenHR

#30
August 21, 2007, 09:47:05 PM
Quote from: Thanatos02I had serious problems with it.

Really?  I dunno, I'm pretty permissive...if my players came up with a plausible reason they might know something, I'd give it to them (it might not always be true, but such is life).  For example, the fighter in James' example might know more than scary rumors if he could have found something on his character sheet or background notes that could justify more knowledge.  But the M-Us always get more leeway for that kind of stuff for me.

But, eh, different strokes etc. :)
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Caesar Slaad

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August 21, 2007, 10:05:22 PM
Quote from: James J SkachAnd usually done with the feared and loathed GM fiat...IIRC...

Fighter: Do I know the Legend of Sir Dufus?
GM: No, at best you know some rumors to scare children...
Magic User: Do I?
GM: Sure, every person of your intelligence knows that Sir Dufus lived some 400 years ago and...

I toyed with an idea that would make it much less fiat.

I mean educated characters were expected to be the source of exposition in fantasy literature and film. But short of setting know it all, they rarely are in games.

My solution: a house rules providing players with index cards with important info pertinent to the setting on them depending on how many ranks their character has in knowledge skills.

In practice, there are more ranks than I could keep up with, but I think that were I to do it again, I'd divide ranks by some fraction and provide the cards and occasional intervals.
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August 22, 2007, 07:49:56 AM
Quote from: Caesar SlaadI toyed with an idea that would make it much less fiat.

I mean educated characters were expected to be the source of exposition in fantasy literature and film. But short of setting know it all, they rarely are in games.

My solution: a house rules providing players with index cards with important info pertinent to the setting on them depending on how many ranks their character has in knowledge skills.

In practice, there are more ranks than I could keep up with, but I think that were I to do it again, I'd divide ranks by some fraction and provide the cards and occasional intervals.
It's an interesting solution CS - but I was talking about back in the old days before there were such things as ranks in knowledge.  But you could do the same based in Intelligence and background.
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