[Swordbearer] Characteristics, Fate Points and Experience

[Lev Lafayette]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 02:14 -0500, Rachel Kronick wrote:
> A very late reply, but I just had an idea about this:
> 
> What about making Fate Points inversely proportional to age? Like, an 
> old person would be really experienced and therefore highly skilled, but 
> a young person just manages to get through life unscathed somehow. Make 
> it a direct tradeoff: (30 - starting XP) = starting Fate Points. Or 
> perhaps (30 - starting XP)/3, for a more restrictive limit.
> 

I like it! The idea of highly skilled characters on one end of the
spectrum and rank novices who are full of beginner's luck would be quite
entertaining. Mechanically what you've described is quite simple as
well.

All the best,


Lev