View Full Version : Warning: Major Loophole Alert!
Kublai
05-09-2005, 05:41 PM
I almost forgot about this until just now! Eruditus found the single, greatest loophole ever discovered in all of BW-dom.
The Vigor of Youth trait plus the Advisor lifepath equals unholy power. Imagine the skill and resources points accrued by a 90-year-old character (60 years spent as an advisor) combined with the phsyique of a teenager! :shock:
You have been warned.
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why would you post such a thing?
-L
Kublai
05-09-2005, 05:47 PM
Lest some poor GM be side-swiped by such a character! A well-informed GM is well-defended GM!
Yagathai
05-09-2005, 05:52 PM
This loophole existed in "Classic" (or as I prefer to term it, "Superior") as well, and it was 'exploited' by a player in the very first game that I ran.
So what? If the GM don't like it, he puts his foot down. If the other players don't like it, they mercilessly beat the offender with dicebags until (s)he relents.
um, wouldn't this create a 76-lifepath character? has any GM every approved a 76-lifepath character?
-L
Yagathai
05-09-2005, 06:13 PM
Um, no, why would it? Advisor to Court counts as a single lifepath, and you can get to it after four lifepaths if you go the eunuch route. 1 + 4 = 5.
Or at least, you used to be able to to. I think that's what eruditus pulled.
Kublai
05-09-2005, 06:13 PM
I don't have the character burner, but, with the advisor, does it count as taking the lifepath every year or once for the total duration? I think it reads the latter.
Mickeroo
05-09-2005, 06:31 PM
For some reason this doesn't seem so powerful to me. I mean, spending 60 years to get 60 resource points and 6 general skills? Aren't there much better ways to spend your time?
*EDIT* - Oh...per year...I thought it was per 10 years, nevermind.
sorry. was thinking of something else. right, choice of tenure. Ooh, scary. Choosing Vigor of Youth/Advisor for 60 years is no different than making an Elf with Prince x2, Etharch x2, Loremaster x2, Lord-Protector x2 and Althing x2. Tons of points, all you could ever want, without any fun to burden you.
-L
Kublai
05-09-2005, 07:15 PM
It's a little different in that one takes being a human and 5 LPs and one takes being an elf and 10 LPs! :shock:
It's a little different in that one takes being a human and 5 LPs and one takes being an elf and 10 LPs! :shock:
No it's not. It's a player milking the system, trying to get one over. If a player wants to trick his friends and get over on them, I think the group needs to talk about it.
Because nothing's really stopping a player from sitting down and writing "Omnipotent Dragon-Man" at the top of his character sheet and filling in W10s in every slot, right?
-L
Kaare Berg
05-10-2005, 03:56 AM
If it fits with a good concept, and the agreed upon setting. Hell why not. fiction is filled witht those mysterious (evil) advisors that just won't die and can turn armies to crisps.
My games are filled with dead ones.
Fourth Horseman
05-10-2005, 06:35 PM
Because nothing's really stopping a player from sitting down and writing "Omnipotent Dragon-Man" at the top of his character sheet and filling in W10s in every slot, right?
:Stares at drawing of man with dragon head rasing arms to sky with bubble dialogue box proclaiming . . . CAN YOU DIG IT:
:Crumples up character sheet:
:Sits in corner and begins to cry:
"Alas, poor omnipotent dragon-man, I knew him . . . "
"Alas, poor omnipotent dragon-man, I knew him . . . "
::cracks whip::
GET BACK TO WORK!
AndyAction
05-24-2005, 10:48 AM
Seriously fellows, you need to resolve this with Duel of Wits.
Gronti: Stentorious Debate B5, FoRKing in Bad Etiquette, calling on the "Rules Lawyer" trait
Abzu: Oratory B5, FoRKing in Administrator, calling on Barbed Wit (instinct: always dismiss Pete)
Fourth Horseman: Doctrine B6 FoRKing in soothing platitudes
Andy: Oratory B2, No FoRKS, calling on the Instigator Trait
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