[gurps] Mageborn versus Fighter discussion

[Dr Kromm]

On 21 Mar 2008 at 19:25, hal at buffnet.net wrote:   

> I am however, loathe to discuss the creation of 150 point mageborn
> characters with access to magery higher than 4, signature gear, etc
> - ie "unreasonable" no limits barred character creation. 

The game, and certainly the majority of the game's players, *do* mostly 
allow things like extra FP, Energy Reserves, Magery 4+, and Signature 
Gear for Powerstones. That stuff is a large part of what makes wizards 
fun and interesting to play. If you're going to permit warriors broad 
access to arms and armor without regard to social class, and if you're 
making Magic Resistance accessible and even assumed for fighters who 
hunt wizards, then you almost have to allow wizards roughly equivalent 
freedoms on their abilities.  

Also, 150 points is more or less the accepted starting level for PCs in 
4e. I'm not sure it's useful to look at 100 points, given that many of 
the things we rebalanced when we revised from 3e to 4e were done under 
the basic assumption that most PCs would be built on 150+ points.  

SP.  

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