[Runequest] POW gain - mechanically?

[Styopa]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Ashley Munday <aescleal at btinternet.com>wrote:

> One "work around": Use (100% - chance of affecting target) as the chance of
> gaining POW. (or use the standard roll to succeed/roll to fail idea from
> RQIII). This means that if you have a 95% chance of overcoming those rats
> then you've only got a 5% of getting something out of it. It's a bit more
> work as instead of just recording that you used your POW you have to
> record what you overcame.
>

Yep, actually that's what I'm doing - the result being that the POW gain
over time is not flat, but flatter than one might otherwise expect.  To gain
POW according to RQ3 you must:
POWx5% to cast the spell
Overcome the target's MP with your own.
Succeed at a POW gain roll ((max species POW)-(currentPOW)*5%)
...so mathematically you have two things that start hard and get easier, and
only one thing that starts easy and gets harder.

Screw it, these are young players and they're in it for the hack and slash
fun, not for the role playing or for the gritty realism.
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