thread: 2005-04-25 : Technical Agenda
On 2005-04-30, Vincent wrote:
Tony: "I'm in total agreement that a player in Capes has more ability to get their character up Mount Fuji than a player in Mountain Witch does. But that would be true even if I did posit (in Mountain Witch) a super-powered samurai who could pick up Mount Fuji and throw it to Mars, or if I did restrict my samurai in Capes to purely human physical feats."
Exactly! Ex-actly! That's all there is to it. The two games' rules support, promote, create, require, provoke different actions, whole different scales of action, on the part of the characters.
Ben: No, that's still the player you're talking about, not the character. I really do mean just the character, baffling as that might be.
Ah! Try this: in GURPS, how much time and resources does it take for you to have your character kill 50 enemies, build a pyramid, level a mountain? In Dogs in the Vineyard, how much? In Polaris, how much?
