Re: Legends: Prestige Ratings

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1993 17:38:47 +0000

gairns@ccrs.emr.ca (The Atrocity Exhibition):
>{dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) waxes poetic ...}:
>>I've noticed that characters with prestige of just under 20 (17 and 19)
>>are reported as having "extremely high" prestige...

If this meets your criteria for waxing poetic, you must be very
easy to please. :)

>I think the prestige classes MUST refer to effective prestige as opposed
>to base prestige.  I looked at an Ogre once who had a prestige of 1 and
>the report was 'Extremely High' I got the impression that it was because I
>was an Elf and with respect to an Ogre, it would appear to have a prestige
>WAY OUT of my INF range.  Any comments?

Yes, prestige classes definitely refer to effective prestige.  However,
you are almost certainly wrong if you think that effective prestige is
a relative statistic:  A character has the same prestige no matter who's
trying to influence him.  Being an Elf trying to influence an Ogre would
make your job far harder, but only in the sense of needing a better
influence rating, not a better prestige score.

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Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

The inability of snakes to count is actually a refusal, on their part,
    to appreciate the Cardinal Number system. -- "Actual Facts"

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Re: Legends: Prestige Ratings
gairns@ccrs.emr.ca (The Atrocity Exhibition)
Fri, 02 Apr 1993 16:32:44 +0000