Post by Loraine DeLaFontaine on Mar 29, 2010 14:33:03 GMT -8
As some of you know this subject came up and I promised more details so that we could hold a vote when we get back to red square. There were too few of you this last wk to hold one for real.
Myself and my awesome ASTs have been running the sphere long enough now to get a good feel for things, have issues come up, listen to complaints and the general- "OK so how do we balance this situation/scene?"
The main issue that has come up again and again is the balance of character power currently in the sphere. Sometimes this just happens- 'specially in a smaller sphere. Some people come and go while others really like it and come every week and then some are new to the waters and just getting started. This happens naturally and it's not anyone's fault but without simply killing off all the old characters - whose players are regular - there's no balance to things. This has also been an issue concerning how the 2nd edition rules for the sphere are in the books.
Now I know most people don't like the idea, but we're laying the idea open for you guys. Changeling often has many possibilities for characters and we can't think of a better way to do it. We're only going to be doing this though if we have a majority vote. And not like one more vote for it then not- more of an 80% vote for. Otherwise well.. we'll have to look at other options. What those are, I'm not sure at this point. Right now we just want you guys to really think on this option.
If we were to go ahead with this option, we would be looking at a few different things to make things smooth and tie this world's plots and characters up. There would be a large plot that we would be running over the next 3-4 months. Giving you all time to do some things you never got to with the characters and to think on new concepts. This time would also give us time to plan for the new world setting - including NPCs, plots, ect.
During this time we'll also be going over the books and basically revamping the system. The books are simply too vague and powered strangely in many regards. Mark would be helping myself and Sarah power through these books and rules so we could make ourselves small handy books with the new rules. These would be put on the board, copied to disks and used by us and players when the reset happened. Depending on what you guys think, this reset of rules will be happening anyway. This time frame would just be fitting and realistic for what we could pull off.
The reset button would also feature an experience leveling. Everyone's experience would be set to the same number- including the STs. We're looking at 200exp to start: 50exp to put into the new characters and 150exp to have in bank and used at normal character progression.
Feeling free to comment on this over the next few weeks with any other ideas or questions on the matter. I'll be putting a poll up as well just so that we can get a feeling as to who's keeping up with us and what we're looking at possibly for the final vote. The poll is just to get a feel on things, not the final conclusion.
Thanks guys!
Myself and my awesome ASTs have been running the sphere long enough now to get a good feel for things, have issues come up, listen to complaints and the general- "OK so how do we balance this situation/scene?"
The main issue that has come up again and again is the balance of character power currently in the sphere. Sometimes this just happens- 'specially in a smaller sphere. Some people come and go while others really like it and come every week and then some are new to the waters and just getting started. This happens naturally and it's not anyone's fault but without simply killing off all the old characters - whose players are regular - there's no balance to things. This has also been an issue concerning how the 2nd edition rules for the sphere are in the books.
Now I know most people don't like the idea, but we're laying the idea open for you guys. Changeling often has many possibilities for characters and we can't think of a better way to do it. We're only going to be doing this though if we have a majority vote. And not like one more vote for it then not- more of an 80% vote for. Otherwise well.. we'll have to look at other options. What those are, I'm not sure at this point. Right now we just want you guys to really think on this option.
If we were to go ahead with this option, we would be looking at a few different things to make things smooth and tie this world's plots and characters up. There would be a large plot that we would be running over the next 3-4 months. Giving you all time to do some things you never got to with the characters and to think on new concepts. This time would also give us time to plan for the new world setting - including NPCs, plots, ect.
During this time we'll also be going over the books and basically revamping the system. The books are simply too vague and powered strangely in many regards. Mark would be helping myself and Sarah power through these books and rules so we could make ourselves small handy books with the new rules. These would be put on the board, copied to disks and used by us and players when the reset happened. Depending on what you guys think, this reset of rules will be happening anyway. This time frame would just be fitting and realistic for what we could pull off.
The reset button would also feature an experience leveling. Everyone's experience would be set to the same number- including the STs. We're looking at 200exp to start: 50exp to put into the new characters and 150exp to have in bank and used at normal character progression.
Feeling free to comment on this over the next few weeks with any other ideas or questions on the matter. I'll be putting a poll up as well just so that we can get a feeling as to who's keeping up with us and what we're looking at possibly for the final vote. The poll is just to get a feel on things, not the final conclusion.
Thanks guys!