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To Point Buy Or Not To Point Buy

Started by One Horse Town, September 25, 2006, 12:54:34 PM

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Yamo

#15
September 27, 2006, 10:24:19 PM
Point-buy with the points taken-out. :)

Honestly, as a GM, I have always gone with a "Just make the guy you want and I'll let you know if you need to make any changes to him before we play" approach. Fuck math and fuck balance.
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Pete

#16
September 28, 2006, 08:56:26 AM
I'm mainly a D&D class/level guy, but I like certain kinds of point-buy systems: namely the Star Wars d6 and, to a lesser extent, the White Wolf style.  Systems  where there's a low cost to attribute ratio (like one point for one pip in SWd6 or 2 points per attribute in WW).  Neither of these are perfect but I like them far more than the Hero or Tri-Stat method of having 100 to 500 points to spend on everything.
 
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