Fw: Re: [Design] Ordinary is relative

[Lev Lafayette]

--- Kyle Schuant <kyle3054 at iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I dunno. What's the range of a gorilla's strength?
> What's the world gorilla bench press record? Has any
> man ever wrestled a gorilla? 

Well, human versus chimp used to be a common side-show
feature.. You know, 45kg chimp, 90 kg human, chimp
picks up human throws him out of the ring...

>     His comments about figures and so are what I
> didn't understand. There are no figures or numbers
> in d4-d4. It's all relative. Players don't really
> care whether their character can run 100m in 10.01
> or 9.99 seconds, they just care whether they can
> beat Carl Lewis.

Relative to what however? If it's just relative to the
"campaign average", I think there is a sim problem,
especially if you start throwing in uplifted gorillas
and aliens into the mix. 

If the average human is the norm, but there's a bunch
of gorrillas in the mix as well, then the scale is
going to go wonky.

Sure people don't want the know what the nth degree
is. But they also like having a rule of thumb they can
work with.

IMO of course.


Lev Lafayette
lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au
http://au.geocities.com/lev_lafayette


		
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