Reply To: Nightfall Games announce The Terminator RPG

[limburger 21706xp 0]

need to check the quick start, but that reads wrong and yet it kind of doesn’t

stat 1 + skill 4 = low talent + lots of training
stat 4 + skill 1 = lots of raw talent + little training
should training have more of an effect than raw talent ?
also keep in mind … that stat 4 + skill 1 character can still improve himself with a bit of training.
The stat 1 + skill 4 character can’t possibly find more advanced training …

Is a normal person supposed to even reach traning level 2 ?

I kind of suspect that *that* is where the ‘mistakes’ are made.
Players expect that a range 1-4 means that even ‘normal’ characters get to reach rank 4.
What if only specialists/aliens get to go beyond rank 2?
Same applies to stats …
In other words : a stat 1 + skill 4 character is definitely going to be better than a standard human who can only hope to do stat 1 + skill 2
Same applies to stat 2 humans … at best they may be stat 2 + skill 2. So they’re at a disadvantage to a stat 2 + skill 4 alien/specialist.

The only real downside is that there is no room for human characters to have a unique stat line as the best human is 2 + 2 and the ‘worst’ human is 1 + 0 (assuming 0 stat is impossible). That’s basically 2 statlines for all humans in the entire game.

So again … what is the game trying to do here ?
Are humans dead boring with zero chance of rising above the chaff ?

If your enemies are also running 2+4 style of stats then humans are going to get splattered real fast and only the ‘supers’ get to survive …