[UA] Adeptvatars

[holycrow at mindspring.com]

>One counter argument is that a PC adeptvatar has to divide a given >amount of points between two Soul skills (of which he could only max >at 70%, meaning an average between the two skills of 35%) thus >weakening him in one or both, rather than having one or the other at >a better percentage.  Which doesn't mean it should be more common for >GMCs, but they really don't have that sort of limitation.

"The hunter who pursues two hares will lose both."  You want scads of funky powers, you're going to have to work for it with lots of experience: That's just part of the game.

For the real minmax afficionado, you can put your Avatar skill at 51% so that it's vaguely reliable, and leave your Adept skill at 19%.  That's pretty sad, but since it's your obsession skill it's effectively much higher.  (I think there's some kind of mathematical law of diminishing returns on obsession as the skill rises... I knew this once... It works out that the obsession bonus is zero at 99% skill, but it's effectively something like +20% at 19% skill.  Any smart math types wanna correct me?)

-G.

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