The_Threat wrote:
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> Xander - 3
> Giles - 3
> Cordy - 3 (wow?)
> Harmony - 4 (vamp)
> Drusilla - 4
> Riley - 5
> Darla - 5
> Oz - 6 (doggie)
> The Judge - 7
> Dracula - 7
> Buffy - 8 {850 pounds}
> Spike - 8
> The Master - 8
> Angel - 9 {1050 pounds}
> Adam - 10
> Glory - 15
> The Mayor after transformation - 20 {5 tons}
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> These stats are just rediculous. Just Hilarity. I don't care
> that they are the official stats from the RPG.
>
> Drusilla having 4 Strength makes 0 sense as she can easily lift
> a full grown man with 1 hand. She can even break down a heavy
> Wooden Door with ease. Her strength is superhuman.
>
> Riley's strength should not be on par with vampires, unless
> maybe they are counting the one episode where he started
> freaking out. He should be at human maximum but he never
> displayed SUperhuman strength.
>
I disagree with quite a few, but Riley
doesn't have superhuman strength. The game allows humans to go up to 5 in any stat without any qualification. A human can have a 6 but they are very rare and the Judge/DM/whatever should make sure that a player isn't going to abuse the soft rule and get 6's in everything. A 7 in a stat
can still be considered human, but you are basically the greatest in the world and requires Judge/DM approval, back story, etc. No human main character had a 7 in anything. The best was Fred (yum), who had a 6 intelligence.
But yeah, some of the relationships seem a bit skew. The chick vamps are all listed comfortably within the confines of normal human strength, they are just stronger than they could be if they were in fact human. I don't think this jives well enough with what happens on the shows. They should be bumped up, maybe not to a clear superhuman level which would be 8, but 4 just doesn't cut it.
You'd think that with a game were
everybody will be running around with a 2 or a 3 they would have reworked the level definitions and doubled the amount of levels, to reflect the smaller differences in ability that a game of this scale dwells in. MSHRPG has to paint normal people with broad strokes because the system needs to accommodate sky-high superhuman stats AND subhuman stats as well. This game doesn't have that obstacle. Why couldn't we have 1 to 14 instead of 1 to 7 for humans? Riley 10, Dru 11, Harm and Darla 12. That seems OK. But hey, I've been saying the same thing about White Wolf's system for over a decade now so maybe I'm the one who doesn't get it!
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