(10-12-2014, 06:49 PM)Knahli Wrote: Anyways, what I am curious about is.... how would or do you people who play/play with strong characters deal with the skill gap that exists between extraordinary and average warriors? How do you keep it so that the super-skilled fighter isn't tearing down the enemies and minimalizing the effect that the scene has upon normal players? I was always uncertain of the idea of someone awesome destroying twenty enemies with several swings of their axe or blowing a group asunder with powerful black magic while another two or three players are struggling against an even number of equally-skilled foes.
When this situation happens to me as ST, what I do is split the groups up so that people are being challenged by things appropriate and relevant to their power level. So, if you have a group of low power people and a group of high octane spellcasters, the bad guys will have some powerful casters too that the high powered people have to duel lest the entire battle be lost. Meanwhile, the low power people have to sneak in or fight past their adversaries to achieve some other key goal (turning off an anti-magic generator, disabling a ceruleum bomb, etc.). This way, everyone has a critical, important goal that they have to achieve that's relevant to their power level, and the structure of the fight necessitates little crossover.
Another approach is to simply say, "Everyone gets to take out 1-2 bad guys," and be done with it. That way, even if someone is a Black Mage extraordinaire, they're still fighting and winning against the exact same number of people as everyone else. They just get to narrate it differently.
Usually, though, I try to avoid these sorts of situations in the first place. If character power levels are highly disparate, I try to remove situations where they come up.
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