From owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sat Jul 3 10:40:58 1999 Received: (from bin@localhost) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) id KAA09009; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:40:58 +1200 Received: from smtp2.ihug.co.nz (tk2.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.14]) by mail.sf.org.nz (8.8.6/NZSFI-19980830) with ESMTP id KAA09006 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:40:56 +1200 Received: from dworkin (p45-max26.akl.ihug.co.nz [206.18.99.109]) by smtp2.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id KAA31589 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:26:08 +1200 Message-ID: <001201bec4db$776bfbc0$4301a8c0@dworkin.ihug.co.nz> Subject: Re: Agenda for Gods Meeting this Sunday (extra item) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:37:27 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 From: "Dworkin" To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz Sender: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz Errors-To: owner-dq@dq.sf.org.nz X-Loop: dq@dq.sf.org.nz X-Requests: To unsubscribe from this list, or change your subscription address, send a message to dq-request@dq.sf.org.nz. Reply-To: dq@dq.sf.org.nz >This is a *very* valid comment. It is the GM & scenario which determines >whether there is anything for the character to do. There is almost >*nothing* that the beginner PC or its player can do about it -- most >beginner mages are useless because their beginning 100-odd e.p. forces >them to have less skills/ranking than *every* NPC they might encounter. >The GM is obliged to ensure that there are enough interesting events that >require NO reliance on skills, weapons, magic, or special items -- i.e. So, is it a problem of the system or the GMs? Consider most NPCs have no professional skills, no weapon skills and so forth. Guards and militia types often have poor weapon skills typical of what you can buy with a few hundred XP. These weapons are often the weaker ones (spears, shortswords etc). As such this is a GMing issue if *every* NPC is outshining the party. Also there has been much already on the capabilities of novice adventurers and so it bears not repeating. William -- see unsubscribe instructions in message headers --