[Glorantha] Power Levels

[Donald R. Oddy]

In message <6.2.1.2.0.20061116173106.0330ceb0 at diablo.albionsoft.com> Graham Robinson writes:

>I'd have thought the above was inarguable... I await the inevitable 
>argument that proves me wrong. *grin*
>
>Perhaps more controversially, the stats of NPCs should also, surely, 
>depend on when in this progression they are introduced. The Lunar Field 
>School that acts as a support body for starting PCs and which they will 
>later outgrow would naturally have lower typical stats than the major 
>challenge to be overcome by some of the biggest heroes in Dragon Pass. 

Who the hell are these starting PCs who have the political influence
to get one of the six Lunar Field Schools allocated as a support
body? The Red Emperor's offspring?

Typical starting PCs get magical support from the NPC drunkard who
was thrown out of university for shagging his tutor's wife.

I don't think there's any argument that NPCs should be tailored
to the level of the players but that's done by selecting the
right NPC not fudging their stats. Otherwise we end up with D&D
style dragons which can be zapped by a reasonably competent
magician.

>There's no consistency there, but so what? The two events aren't going 
>to happen in the same campaign anyway.
>
>And for those who seem to be arguing for some sort of statistics as 
>holy writ, and playing with other numbers means you're somehow 
>wrecking Glorantha, well I hope I'm misunderstanding you. If not, 
>I'm very glad that YGWV.

Certainly not holy writ, just keeping the numbers roughly in line 
with the sample resistances and community support table in the 
rulebook.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/