Post by ironheart on Apr 15, 2007 18:52:48 GMT -5
So at last game something occurred to me while dodging balefire. Specifically I had to ask the question why is dodge the only general defensive retest? It seems odd, to me at least, that the one tied to specific traits. This seems to make dex based traits extremely valuable compared to strength or toughness type traits. As you can use dex traits for defensive, athletic, and offensive challenges while you can use strength based traits for specific offensive and athletic traits, and toughness based traits can be used only for defensive tests that don't have a retest. So it seems then that dex based traits are much more valuable.
This of course leads me to ask if I can have my non dex based traits at a rate of 3 for 2 xp but of course this would be unreasonable. So I would like to make a modest proposal, and no before you ask it does not involve eating babies, I would like to propose adding a retest for soak based defensive tests this would give more uses to toughness type traits which would do something to narrow their usefulness gap with dex based traits. For this purpose I would nominate Survival as a retest for soak challenges as it was used occasionally for Fortitude retest is VtM material of similar vintage.
This of course leads me to ask if I can have my non dex based traits at a rate of 3 for 2 xp but of course this would be unreasonable. So I would like to make a modest proposal, and no before you ask it does not involve eating babies, I would like to propose adding a retest for soak based defensive tests this would give more uses to toughness type traits which would do something to narrow their usefulness gap with dex based traits. For this purpose I would nominate Survival as a retest for soak challenges as it was used occasionally for Fortitude retest is VtM material of similar vintage.