From: boris (mabeyke@batman.b11.ingr.com)
Date: Wed 23 Jun 1993 - 18:34:03 EEST
Liked the SIZ-STR table. I was working on something similar, but (taking
POW MPs Available/day
a idea from Wizards of the Coast), I had a strictly linear scale from
1-20, and each value past that was double the number ten less than it
(i.e. SIZ 1-20 => 6xSIZ kg, SIZ 21-31 => 2x(SIZ-10) kg, SIZ 31-40 =>
4x(SIZ-20)kg, etc). OJ's more closely fits the actual range, and is
just as easy. My next question is, does this apply to POW as well, as
implied by the resistance table. That is, does having a POW greater
than ten mean that one has more MPs available each day than just POW.
The equivalent scale for POW->MPs would be:
1-10 1-10
11-20 12-30 (+2 MPs per +1 POW)
21-30 34-70 (+4 MPs/+1 POW)
31-40 78-150 (+8 MPs/+1 POW)
10xN 10x(2exp(N) -1)
Now while I think this progression is too fast, I do think something
similar should be done with POW. Then, those of us who might rarely wish
to think of the capabilities of a Waha Tribal Founder or a City God will
have a metric without placing POWs in the millions. Also, something like
this was probably considered already; the Waha spell Call Founder in GoG
says the Founder summoned will have a POW between 40 and 100, depending
on the tribe. These are supposed to be the Sons of Storm Bull, are they
not? This seems a pitifully low POW unless it also is logarithmic. On
the above scale, however, such beings would have from 150 to 10,230 MPs
available per day. This seems appropriate for a son of a major god.
Note that this does not seem to be the case with the critters in Elder
Secrets, unless that are incredibly formiddible. Cwim's POW is shown to
be 800, and the Mother of Monsters as 2500! (For those interested, this
gives Cwim 12.1 septillion MPs [I think that's 12.1 thousand trillion for
those in the UK, if I remember the conversion right*] and 18.1x10exp75 for
MoM).
* Where here in the U.S. the progression for each power of 1000 is
thousand, million, billion, trillion, quad., quint., hex., sept, oct.,
isn't it, in the U.K., thousand, million, thousand million, billion,
thou. billion, mil. billion, trillion, thou. trillion, mil. trillion,
bil. trillion, etc? I'm not sure?
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