[TML] Leveling (was NEW SFRPG - Thousand Suns)

Richard Aiken raikenclw at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 18:03:45 MST 2008


On Feb 6, 2008 6:48 PM, Michael Taylor <michaeltaylor1329 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Having to be aware of your own PCs level and being aware of other NPCs levels takes you out of the story and into the game mechanics.
> It produces a ridiculously inconsistent game world that continually breaks the illusion during play.

Yeah.  The players aren't usually impressed when the DM says, "The
yeoman farmer carries himself with confidence and has several old
wound scars visible."  They just ask, "So what's his fighter level?"

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein


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