OOC: Added a little more information, clarifying matters.
Michael, who plays Oliver in SB, sparked an obvious mechanics question.
We know that player characters have significant numbers of points, as do NPC cousins, to say nothing of Elders. And the same is true of Chaosians.
But what about lower level characters?
Please note that I do employ a rank approach to how effective points are, as detailed here.
This is to say that an Amber Ranked character, with a story value of 4, is half as effective as a character with a score of 30, which has a story value of 8.
This is very similar to the Eternal City's approach.
As a rule of thumb.
Elders have 300 points and above. Elders almost never have attributes below Amber rank.
NPC Cousins and Player characters usually have 125-300 points. Some, especially those with a significant achilles heel or on the lower range of the scale, have an chaos level attribute. They almost never have a human level attribute.
Superior, trained Sapients close to the Primal Powers, such as mid and higher ranked army members, Rangers, and so forth have up to 75 points. They often have a sold down attribute.
Ordinary Sapients close to Primal Powers, such as natives of Amber city, ordinary Chaosians in the Courts, Demons, and so forth, or Superior, trained Sapients out in shadow usually have 0-25 points. They will often have at least one sold down attribute, probably two or three.
Sapients in shadows outside of the Primal Powers, such as a random, ordinary shadow typically have points in the negative column. These Sapients rarely have stats above Chaosian.
Example.
King Random might have 300 points, no sold down Attributes
Hadrian, son of Caine, might be a 200 point character. He has some low stats, but nothing below Amber
Rylac Geriason, Captain of the Castle Guard has 75 points, highlighted by a decent warfare, even if his Psyche is at Chaosian rank.
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart of Shadow Terra, Commander of an anti-Alien task force, is a 25 point character. Although his endurance and strength are human, he has a chaos level psyche and a decent warfare.
John Smith, computer programmer in the same shadow, is a -75 point character, with human level stats and a few points in allies and such.
Posted by Jvstin at October 18, 2004 7:18 PM