Expanding Bloodline Strength Score.

[geeman]

In writing up some notes for a conversion of the bloodline system to 3e I
found myself wondering about adding new "levels" of bloodline strength. As
a game mechanic, of course, bloodline strength has no actual function after
character generation, but descriptors add a lot of flavor and it`s the kind
of thing that has a lot of appeal for players. What winds up happening is
that in assigning a point value to a particular range of bloodline strength
score for use with a 3e version of character generation the ranges tend to
cut right accross one of the current bloodline strength categories. For
example:

Bloodline Initial
Strength Bloodline
Score Strength
1-6 Tainted
7-12 Tainted

The current ranks of bloodline strength, of course, are Tainted, Minor,
Major, Great and True. I`ve already added for the purpose of my blood
ability acquisition table "Lesser" bloodline strength between minor and
major. Are there any other terms appropriate to describing bloodline strength?

Gary

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[Sir Justine]

Orginally posted by geeman

As
a game mechanic, of course, bloodline strength has no actual function after
character generation


No? I don't know how your system will work, but maybe the strenght can be a part of the mechanics as is the score. In the system I'm using for bloodlines, at least, it is.

[geeman]

At 07:00 PM 9/9/2002 +0200, Sir Justine wrote:

>>As a game mechanic, of course, bloodline strength has no actual function
>>after
>>character generation
>
>No? I don`t know how your system will work, but maybe the strenght can be
>a part of the mechanics as is the score. In the system I`m using for
>bloodlines, at least, it is.

How do you use bloodline strength as part of the mechanics for the
score? There`s some info in the BoR regarding how characters can raise
their bloodline strength if they also raise their bloodline strength score,
but it still doesn`t have any game mechanical effects. What do you do
that`s different?

Gary

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[Sir Justine]

See my post at the thread "Expanding Blood Abilities". There I do a short explain of the way I use bloodlines IMC. It's not much different from the original Birthright rules.

[geeman]

At 02:25 AM 9/10/2002 +0200, Sir Justine wrote:

>See my post at the thread "Expanding Blood Abilities". There I do a short
>explain of the way I use bloodlines IMC. It`s not much different from the
>original Birthright rules.

So your bloodline strength determines your "modifier" (+1 to +5) and your
"caster level" (1st through 20th.) I presume the modifier is for various
things similar to the bloodline "ability score" from Travis Doom`s
conversion and caster level is for arcane spellcasting, correct?

Gary

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[Trithemius]

Gary:
> How do you use bloodline strength as part of the mechanics
> for the score? There`s some info in the BoR regarding how
> characters can raise their bloodline strength if they also
> raise their bloodline strength score, but it still doesn`t
> have any game mechanical effects. What do you do that`s different?

I am of the opinion that the strength is far more easy to detect than
the exact rating. This means that most judgements about people`s fitness
for marriage will depend not on rating but on strength.

IM(2e)C I used to give a bonus to NPC Reactions based on the strength of
a bloodline, if the subject was public knowledge.

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[Ariadne]

I thought, an exact rating isn't detectable at all, only the rating. May be you can detect that a major 25 bloodline is less high than a major 45 one, but not the exact number...