Scavenger setting skeleton tweaks

[Meson]

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.

[maledictus]

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

[Rob Lang]

(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.

[Meson]

[viziel]

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

[Meson]

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

[Rob Lang]

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.

[Meson]

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