On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 23:33 +0000, John TFS wrote: > A footnote could be included to mention the other Items. My concept > was to balance the LW character with the New Order books for Project > Aon players. Ah, I see. Well I guess thats where we differ in opinion then. I see the New Order book as a completely different series as there is no interaction/continuation between veteran Lone Wolf characters and New Order books (like Grey Star) and hence no reason to bring them into parity. > The New Order GM starts the game with CS from 25-34 and an EP of > 30-39. He also gets a Kai Weapon which gives him a base bonus of +5 > CS or a circumstantial bonus from +7 to +9. The Sommerswerd's > permanent +8 CS bonus is a little more potent than that of a Kai > Weapon, but not outrageously so. Having all those other Special Items > added in would tend to nerf things more than a little bit, so I tossed > them. > Youre making the assumption that combats (ie the CS/EP scores of enemies) in the Grandmaster series are comparable to combats in the New Order series. combats from first book of both series, removing duplicates (also not taking into consideration situational modifiers). easiest enemy in in 21votm has a higher CS than half the enemies in 13plor, that being said there are a couple of nasty fights (3 Ruel Giganite, Exterminus, Degradon). 13plor COMBAT SKILL 18 ENDURANCE 28 COMBAT SKILL 20 ENDURANCE 26 COMBAT SKILL 20 ENDURANCE 28 COMBAT SKILL 22 ENDURANCE 21 COMBAT SKILL 23 ENDURANCE 23 COMBAT SKILL 23 ENDURANCE 27 COMBAT SKILL 24 ENDURANCE 30 COMBAT SKILL 25 ENDURANCE 40 COMBAT SKILL 26 ENDURANCE 30 COMBAT SKILL 28 ENDURANCE 28 COMBAT SKILL 30 ENDURANCE 30 COMBAT SKILL 30 ENDURANCE 40 COMBAT SKILL 32 ENDURANCE 20 COMBAT SKILL 32 ENDURANCE 30 COMBAT SKILL 32 ENDURANCE 36 COMBAT SKILL 32 ENDURANCE 40 COMBAT SKILL 34 ENDURANCE 38 COMBAT SKILL 34 ENDURANCE 44 COMBAT SKILL 35 ENDURANCE 30 COMBAT SKILL 36 ENDURANCE 22 COMBAT SKILL 36 ENDURANCE 34 COMBAT SKILL 36 ENDURANCE 39 COMBAT SKILL 40 ENDURANCE 26 COMBAT SKILL 40 ENDURANCE 30 COMBAT SKILL 40 ENDURANCE 40 COMBAT SKILL 43 ENDURANCE 56 COMBAT SKILL 46 ENDURANCE 36 COMBAT SKILL 47 ENDURANCE 30 COMBAT SKILL 49 ENDURANCE 36 COMBAT SKILL 50 ENDURANCE 50 COMBAT SKILL 50 ENDURANCE 80 21votm COMBAT SKILL 33 ENDURANCE 35 COMBAT SKILL 33 ENDURANCE 36 COMBAT SKILL 36 ENDURANCE 40 COMBAT SKILL 37 ENDURANCE 36 COMBAT SKILL 38 ENDURANCE 36 COMBAT SKILL 38 ENDURANCE 38 COMBAT SKILL 39 ENDURANCE 38 COMBAT SKILL 40 ENDURANCE 40 COMBAT SKILL 42 ENDURANCE 40 COMBAT SKILL 44 ENDURANCE 39 > > As I said above, I made the assumption that the player going from the > Kai/Magnakai series to the GM series would have gone through all the > books - because he'd be doing this on the Project Aon site. > Not necessarily. The first thing I did upon finding this site was replay all the adventures I had read (I missed quite a few Magnakai and a couple of the Grandmaster adventures because the books were only available in second hand stores when i was a kid and i could never find all of them) ... i didnt see the point in indulging in nostalgia for things i had never read. Eventually i did go back and read them though I have never played them (probably why i never realized why combats in book 17 were so hard). Also, youre making the assumption that the someone doing the reading is a "he" ;P ~~~~~~ Manage your subscription at //www.freelists.org/list/projectaon