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Re: FUDGE: Levels

#484
From: Steven Eric Schwartz
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:07
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In article <1992Dec21.141332.7260@oz.plymouth.edu> sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan) writes:

>>To make it easier on character sheets when abbreviating levels to a single
>>character, the 'Great' level could be changed to another word (off the top
>>of my head I'd use 'Excellent') to avoid confusing it with the 'Good' level.
>
>In this case, though, I must admit we hashed it out quite a bit.  The
>upshot is:
>
>No two net.people can agree on seven adjectives that form a progression
>for the worst to the best.  Some have to be rejected because of other
>connotations (such as Average - a Good swordsman gets a Good result on
>the average, for example . . .).  Since no one can agree, I just chose
>the seven that made the most sense to me and added a caveat that the GM
>should change them as needed.  Your example wouldn't help me at all,
>for instance:  I can easily see a difference between Good and Great,
>but would have a hard time telling the difference between Excellent and
>Superb . . .

I thought of that confusion on Ex...Su as well....ok back to eating more
FUDGE!


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Subject: Re: FUDGE: Levels
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