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Hi,

I have been poking around ICAR a bit lately, and have used it for a few sessions. Recently, my old group has decided to play it for a one/two-shot game over the holidays (when we will be in the same place for a bit). Because of the limited number of sessions for this game, I was thinking of upping the character power levels a bit. My question is how do I tweak the scav skeletons for a bit more powerful characters? The most obvious solution is to add RP points, but I am not sure what is appropriate. I am trying to aim for about firefly/late season farscape-level characters if that helps.

Thanks for everyone's time and thanks to Rob for the creation of the system.

Rob, this reainforce my beliefs about the only part I think is weak in ICAR: we need more skeleton rules.

Sorry for that, needed to express myself

(maledictus - point taken! I can only bend to the weight of popular opinion and well reasoned argument )

Hi Meson and welcome to 1KM1KT! I am thrilled you like Icar. Funnily enough, I was just looking into this problem for the next campaign I'm running with my player group, who are all a bit medium-level. Allowing them to spend RP is by far the best way. I give (on average) 3RP a session in my big campaigns. The big campaign runs for about 50 (up to about 100) sessions. Therefore, I'd take a stab at giving out 100 RP to spend to make the middling.

The other thing that makes characters medium powered is bionics or armour. To starting characters, guns are lethal. I have some stats for medium armours, I'll post them up if you're interested. That way your players won't die if up against the more interesting weapons.

See?!? I'm not just some crack pot who reads at a 4th grade level!

BTW, are there any examples of powered armor/armour floating around? I see references in the main book, but nothing in the equipment index.

Hey meson, the only examples I have are for the next version of the rules - which aren't compatible with 3.5. All the BFs and damages have been tweaked and balanced for the new equipment index but I am working on that now.

Darn. I figured that would be the case. Oh well, if there is anything I can do to help, let me know.