Comments on: RPG Stats: Turning Disadvantages into Advantages http://robertsongames.com/role-playing-games/rpg-stats-turning-disadvantages-into-advantages Board Games, Role-playing Games, Miniature War Games Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:51:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Prince of Cats http://robertsongames.com/role-playing-games/rpg-stats-turning-disadvantages-into-advantages/comment-page-1/#comment-829 The Prince of Cats Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:34:19 +0000 http://robertsongames.com/?p=447#comment-829 If you trust your DM, this is the route to some pretty fun characters. One of my favourite DMs once started us all out by asking us who the characters were. No stats, they all came later, but the players who got through were the flawed ones. One or two had sob-stories of murdered parents, but mostly it was personal flaws and the challenges that we set ourselves that made them real. Unfortunately, I have seen too many of my flawed heroes killed (literally or just retired out of frustration) by a DM who goes 'oh, look at that low Wisdom... make a spot check and then a will save'. But now I am the DM and I think I will have to bear this in mind next time I get my group together... If you trust your DM, this is the route to some pretty fun characters. One of my favourite DMs once started us all out by asking us who the characters were. No stats, they all came later, but the players who got through were the flawed ones. One or two had sob-stories of murdered parents, but mostly it was personal flaws and the challenges that we set ourselves that made them real.

Unfortunately, I have seen too many of my flawed heroes killed (literally or just retired out of frustration) by a DM who goes ‘oh, look at that low Wisdom… make a spot check and then a will save’.

But now I am the DM and I think I will have to bear this in mind next time I get my group together…

]]> By: Zzarchov http://robertsongames.com/role-playing-games/rpg-stats-turning-disadvantages-into-advantages/comment-page-1/#comment-827 Zzarchov Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:39:29 +0000 http://robertsongames.com/?p=447#comment-827 That is a great system you've cooked up here. Two thumbs up. That is a great system you’ve cooked up here. Two thumbs up.

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