Question: So my band of Scion mates have converted our Hero game completely over to your rules and have all admitted we are having the time of our lives with it. But we are all on the same question. Giving us 10 dots in Abilities is wonderful and all, but is there a Legend level or could a Scion of Legend 4 who spends all his DP to get his Brawl up potentially have Brawl 10? And if so, how do you compensate for his awesomeness at that low of a Legend? We also had one last question - since you are giving out Virtue based on Legend level, we all assume it can't be bought. Is this true? Also, we found where you stated how you go from Hero to Demigod and Demigod to God but Demigod in the book still has bonus points - do you simply negate them and do you split the gained 10 points for Epic Attributes and Boons into 5 and 5 or is it 10 and 10 or just 10 across the board? Thank you for your help and for your site and rules - YALL ROCK!
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The abilities dots one is easy, eat least! It's exactly the same as the rules for Attributes: when you're less than Legend 5, you can get up to 5 dots of something, and after that point you can get dots up to your Legend level. Your Legend 4 Scion can only get 5 dots of Brawl, but once he hits Legend 6 he'll be able to get the sixth, and so on as he grows in power.
Virtues can be bought with XP! It's true that you do sometimes get them automatically when you go up in Legend. Whenever you hit an odd level of Legend (so Legend 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11), you gain one free dot of a Virtue, which can be any Virtue and any level you like. However, you can also buy it if you want to; Virtue dots cost 3 XP per level, the same as in the books, so a third dot of Courage (or whatever) costs 9 XP. You'll always gain a few Virtues as you grow more powerful, but you can also buy more if you want to increase your Willpower or gain more channels. Virtues max out at five dots (unless you're Bogovi).
Finally, we never use bonus points for anything, ever. The rules for handling character creation without using bonus points are here, but we don't have a specific writeup on the advancement at Demigod and God yet, I'm afraid. John knows how the system works, but it would be a lot of time and effort to write it up, so it's in our file for future projects to put on the site. However, we'd suggest that you drop the bonus points and either award a pre-set number of boons and Epic Attributes, or if you want to let the player choose more freeform, just replace them with an equivalent amount of XP.
You don't "compensate" him for his awesomeness for buying 10 dots of Brawl. You pity him for the huge XP sink.
ReplyDeleteThere's a time and a place to raise your abilities high, but it's too big of an expense that early in the game.
The question asker was asking about free points, where tenth dot of brawl costs no more then the 1st dot of brawl. And you need to get away from your obsession with xp "anonymous."
DeleteI think the OP meant compensate in terms of Storytelling, as in figuring out how to run a story with a Hero-level character with bananas abilities, rather than compensating the PC as in needing to give him something.
Delete@John, you're right about him speaking about free points. Though the question does address a similar situation where you become a Demigod with lots of banked XP. Also, the tone of my post was meant to be genuine pity, not mocking. I know that is probably not any better, but it is what it is.
Delete@Anne I think you may be right, though as far as where you could put your BP or XP, abilities are one of the least bananas options around. :(
As the Question writer, Anne was right I wanted to know how a ST would compensate but once she actually answered it made much more sense. As always you guys answer my questions with such ease that it blows my mind. My scion of Poseidon with all his frosty goodness is now finally happy and in a world created by my ST with rules created by the Scion Gods John and Anne
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