<html><body><div><FONT face=verdana,geneva color=#000000>Obligatory plug for SPQR - I've set up a system of self-training/meditation to regain POW. That said, I am comfortable with a relatively high-power game.</FONT></div>
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<div>In the scenario the OP described, I think the problem is in taking it to extremes. If rats have a POW of 3, zapping rats is fine as long as there is a real chance of failure. Using the Resistance Table, this gets you to about POW 12. Anything further is just a 5% chance of failure, and you have that in anything you do. If your POW is no longer being strained, you no longer get any benefit from the POW attacks. At the very least, you need to start attacking cows or something with a higher POW. I could have sworn that we actually covered this in the RQ rules, but perhaps I am just remembering some Chaosium house rules.</div>
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<div>These days I don't use the Resistance Table and, as said, have a system for regaining POW, but that's the best I can say from a "classic RQ" basis.</div>
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<div>Steve Perrin<BR><BR></div>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid" webmail="1">-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [Runequest] POW gain - mechanically?<BR>From: Wayne Shaw <shaw@caprica.com><BR>Date: Tue, August 26, 2008 1:41 pm<BR>To: RuneQuest Rules <runequest@rpgreview.net><BR><BR><BR>><BR>>At the end, we have what I feel is a mechanic that seemed for a long <BR>>time to me to be reasonable, but when extrapolated it breaks the <BR>>system. Am I right that this is broken? Any suggestions?<BR><BR>I was perhaps to offhand in my prior response, so let me try again.<BR><BR>We _don't_ give experience rolls for just "swinging at practice <BR>butts". We give _training time_ which is not even close to as <BR>efficient. Should it be possible to "train" Power? I've often <BR>thought so. If so, then doing so is no better or worse than other <BR>attribute training. Its only if you're focused on the idea that <BR>Power shoul _only_ improve by adventure use that you run into problems.<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Runequest mailing list<BR>Runequest@rpgreview.net<BR><a href="http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net" target=_blank mce_href="http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net">http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net</a><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>