wilcoxon wrote:
I agree very few people have played everything. However, every time a module is not released that was promised (2-3 BIs/specials, A2SP6, and possibly a couple others), it adds to the disparity in character rank. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with me but I think that, if a module was supposed to be released and isn't, then they should release the cert (at least for the xp) so that people are not "robbed" of xp they should have gotten.
Before I ask my questions, let me state that my intended tone is curious not challenging.
So the questions I have with the last part - how often are people impacted by the disparity in character rank? If someone currently caps out at 2.7 and another character has gotten the specials and is 2.9, is that significant? How often are they sitting at the same table? Is there a mod impact other than to authors who need to generate a potentially higher tiered stat block to characters not playing at the most difficult level?
All rewards are untiered. I can appreciate that our characters may not have earned as many ranks as someone else, but we haven't invested the time. Other than wanting to have the opportunity to have earned the extra ranks to play around with additional abilities, what have we lost? "Robbed" seems like a pretty strong statement. Am I missing something?
wilcoxon wrote:
I disagree a little bit with your tier examples. I find that a gap of a half tier or more makes a huge difference. This can be reduced by a good GM (using multiple tier stats or the like) but it is still a problem. It's particularly frustrating to be either the lowest or highest at a table if there is a big gap.<snip>
Things become more noticeable at the half-Tier gap and moreso if there's a full Tier. If the half-Tier gap doesn't bridge Tiers it's less noticeable. It also depends on the individual builds of the characters. I'm sure Vincens could be more effective than how I've built him, that just hasn't been the journey he's gone through. We're going to see discrepancies though even without the specials given that 1.5 certs start almost 4,000 XP behind a character that's gotten max XP for all the mods that it replaces.
Things are going to be imperfect when you include a lot of people and variables. We all do the best we can.
With a sweep of his hat,
Paul