[Runequest] Site update & overcoming/resistance

[Lance Dyas]

Wayne Shaw wrote:
>>         One issue I can see with this is, if you use the standard
>> resistance table, this would effectively double the effects of any
>> starting differences - ie each poing of POW gives you a 1 pt
>> advantage in POW plus a 1 point advantage in base MP. So the
>> 'overwhelming'95%/5% success rate is reached when you have 5 pt
>> advantage in starting POW, rather than 10, which seems to me to be
>> much too easy. So perhaps base it on (POW + MP)/2.
>>     
>
> Great minds...
>
>   
I agree that keeps it better under control.. but it is worth while to 
consider.. Maybe one might
want those at an advantage to be more  overwhelming than so// perhaps 
spirit combat
 is too slow for you? this might be a question of taste.
Normal weapon combat can be awefully fast and dramatic in comparision  
(also d3 can seem
 like a couple of old ladies smacking each other with purses).
<insert  favorite methods for making spirit combat "wicked" />

Does spirit combat happen enough for this to be significant? or is it 
just magic resistance ?
I admit I have thought spirit combat a cool feature under used.
I think it should be a Wizards duel thing alah Ars Magica Hermetic one 
on ones

The pure undivided method would make it even more significant that you 
arrange the conflict for when they
ARE fatigued  and you are NOT or make them think you are probably 
fatigued when you are not.
. any advantage gained will indeed be more extreme... and more obviously 
worth the conniving
and work to arrange it.

AND

I know people who find even dividing by 2, (especially since mp may be 
changing all the time)
a distraction. Percentiles can often be "sold" to people who are 
otherwize less than
disinterested in math but they do accept that percentages have meaning 
and that is
a definite advantage for "broad" the saleability of BRP.

Any way just thinking about  the less mechanically safe alternative and 
its impact on the feel of
play. And Wondering if the Mythic Europe of Ars Magica has been 
converted to ... RuneQuest