LIMITING MECHANICS-an important part of game design-Celtricia/Guildschool

[Nomadic]

[blockquote=SF, most understated and Wise]Most published games shy away from the amount of bookkeeping that Vreeg's system implies. But in this day and age, spread sheets and computer programs can easily be written to support that, so I don't really see it as being much of a hindrance. [/blockquote]

So succinct, yet so profound.

Yeah, there is always a playability vs. realism tug-of-war.  But this one has never been a problem.  Character creation takes a while longer, figuring out the EXP mods for every skill that a player may be interested in, but we have 100% laptop attendance.  SO during play, a lot of the derived stuff derives automatically.

Though it would be nice if vreeg didn't abbreviate so much on his spreadsheets :P it hurts my brain.

[LordVreeg]

[blockquote=SF, most understated and Wise]Most published games shy away from the amount of bookkeeping that Vreeg's system implies. But in this day and age, spread sheets and computer programs can easily be written to support that, so I don't really see it as being much of a hindrance. [/blockquote]

So succinct, yet so profound.

Yeah, there is always a playability vs. realism tug-of-war.  But this one has never been a problem.  Character creation takes a while longer, figuring out the EXP mods for every skill that a player may be interested in, but we have 100% laptop attendance.  SO during play, a lot of the derived stuff derives automatically.

Though it would be nice if vreeg didn't abbreviate so much on his spreadsheets :P it hurts my brain.

Allright, wandering man, that was an unintentional 'Limiting Mechanic'.  We will see what the Igbarians do with a few days that they are avoiding injury.  A lot will be going on behind the scenes, after they Killed Vigor Sheering's two manticore in the Sheering family tomb, then killed some members of his Serpent Queen assassins and rescued Kiko while killing Tarquin the Ograk Necromancer.