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The majority of games use some form of advancement mechanic, often called “experience”. I would like to interject a point here that this does not capture the spirit of many, adventure tales. Sure, Luke becomes a better Jedi over the course of three movies and Frodo more generally competent over a like number of volumes. But John Carter, clean-limbed fighting man from Virginia, starts off as a fantastic swordsman and pretty much remains so. And Elric doesn’t learn new spells and sword tricks. | The majority of games use some form of advancement mechanic, often called “experience”. I would like to interject a point here that this does not capture the spirit of many, adventure tales. Sure, Luke becomes a better Jedi over the course of three movies and Frodo more generally competent over a like number of volumes. But John Carter, clean-limbed fighting man from Virginia, starts off as a fantastic swordsman and pretty much remains so. And Elric doesn’t learn new spells and sword tricks. | ||
− | My point is that advancement mechanics may not always be suitable or meaningful. “Leveling up” is an inheritance from D&D, but it is by no means a required one for your game. If the game is set at a Heroic level or above, the characters begin as quite | + | My point is that advancement mechanics may not always be suitable or meaningful. “Leveling up” is an inheritance from D&D, but it is by no means a required one for your game. If the game is set at a Heroic level or above, the characters begin as quite competence and don’t need to “level up” in order to do things. This is not to say that advancement mechanics are bad or don’t fit into <b>SAMSARA</b>, but that the group ought to consider whether or not they fit into the game being played. Particularly in free-form, Romantic games, “character improvement” may just not be that meaningful. |
Assuming that you do decide to use advancement as part of the game, Samsara points can be given out at the conclusion (or beginning or middle) of stories and subsequently cashed in for character points. These new character points are used to increase the character stats, just as the starting points were at chargen. 1-3 Samsara points is a general guide-line for the number of points to give out. The actual number depends upon how fast and how much you want the character’s to improve. They can be exchanged for character points at 1:2 or 1:3 ration, again depending upon the speed of advancement that you want. | Assuming that you do decide to use advancement as part of the game, Samsara points can be given out at the conclusion (or beginning or middle) of stories and subsequently cashed in for character points. These new character points are used to increase the character stats, just as the starting points were at chargen. 1-3 Samsara points is a general guide-line for the number of points to give out. The actual number depends upon how fast and how much you want the character’s to improve. They can be exchanged for character points at 1:2 or 1:3 ration, again depending upon the speed of advancement that you want. |