Backstage: Kobolding notes
May 15, 2015 22:47:45 GMT
Post by lurkingkobold on May 15, 2015 22:47:45 GMT
(5:20:37 PM) Adelene: *pokes at mana numbers*
(5:20:48 PM) Kappa: how harrowed is she? XD
(5:22:26 PM) Adelene: Not super much, for a kobold. They live about twice as long as humans but reach adulthood at the same age, though, so even if she's had a moderately stressful life she's also had more time to do it in.
(5:22:44 PM) Kappa: heh
(5:24:15 PM) Adelene: I'm thinking she's late-20s-early-30s equivalent, old enough to have been pretty settled and be really giving something up by leaving, but young enough that she can still pretty handily make the adjustment. Just trying to figure out what that translates to in actual years.
(5:28:22 PM) Adelene: ...or, I was misinterpreting what that tag meant. They live a little longer but not enough that I need to come up with a formula, I can just add a couple years and call it good. So say she's 35, and has been tradering for ~20 years.
(5:28:41 PM) Kappa: aha
(5:29:19 PM) Adelene: (human maxage is 60:120, kobold is 150:170.)
(5:29:26 PM) Kappa: aha
(5:33:40 PM) Adelene: Being a 35-year-old kobold is probably worth some 70 or 80 exp all by itself, just from the camp getting found by elves or raided by wild animals once or twice a year.
(5:33:47 PM) Kappa: yeah
(5:35:35 PM) Adelene: And then she doesn't get in serious fights *often*, but not never either, so maybe four or five of those over her 20 year career so far? Which comes to another 20ish.
(5:37:26 PM) Adelene: I kind of feel like being a kobold in a kobold tribe should cut that first number down some though. Like, they're *expecting* to be found/raided, they have plans for this, it is to some degree just business as usual.
(5:37:37 PM) Kappa: hmm
(5:37:53 PM) Kappa: i see what you mean
(5:41:32 PM) Adelene: If I halve the first thing and take the upper end, that gives her 60, enough for plane shift, which I think I want. And that seems kinda reasonable to me all told - I'm being a little generous but I'm also not taking this latest event into account and I do feel like it should count for *something*, even if 'knowingly leaving your entire life in full knowledge that that's probably going to kill you' is not *exactly* the same sort of thing as 'go into a burning building to rescue someone'.
(5:42:19 PM) Kappa: yeah
(5:43:39 PM) Adelene: (It's very arguably harder, even. In some sense impulsively deciding to run into a burning building is very easy. Walking away and *keeping walking* for five days, though?)
(5:43:46 PM) Kappa: yeah
(5:20:48 PM) Kappa: how harrowed is she? XD
(5:22:26 PM) Adelene: Not super much, for a kobold. They live about twice as long as humans but reach adulthood at the same age, though, so even if she's had a moderately stressful life she's also had more time to do it in.
(5:22:44 PM) Kappa: heh
(5:24:15 PM) Adelene: I'm thinking she's late-20s-early-30s equivalent, old enough to have been pretty settled and be really giving something up by leaving, but young enough that she can still pretty handily make the adjustment. Just trying to figure out what that translates to in actual years.
(5:28:22 PM) Adelene: ...or, I was misinterpreting what that tag meant. They live a little longer but not enough that I need to come up with a formula, I can just add a couple years and call it good. So say she's 35, and has been tradering for ~20 years.
(5:28:41 PM) Kappa: aha
(5:29:19 PM) Adelene: (human maxage is 60:120, kobold is 150:170.)
(5:29:26 PM) Kappa: aha
(5:33:40 PM) Adelene: Being a 35-year-old kobold is probably worth some 70 or 80 exp all by itself, just from the camp getting found by elves or raided by wild animals once or twice a year.
(5:33:47 PM) Kappa: yeah
(5:35:35 PM) Adelene: And then she doesn't get in serious fights *often*, but not never either, so maybe four or five of those over her 20 year career so far? Which comes to another 20ish.
(5:37:26 PM) Adelene: I kind of feel like being a kobold in a kobold tribe should cut that first number down some though. Like, they're *expecting* to be found/raided, they have plans for this, it is to some degree just business as usual.
(5:37:37 PM) Kappa: hmm
(5:37:53 PM) Kappa: i see what you mean
(5:41:32 PM) Adelene: If I halve the first thing and take the upper end, that gives her 60, enough for plane shift, which I think I want. And that seems kinda reasonable to me all told - I'm being a little generous but I'm also not taking this latest event into account and I do feel like it should count for *something*, even if 'knowingly leaving your entire life in full knowledge that that's probably going to kill you' is not *exactly* the same sort of thing as 'go into a burning building to rescue someone'.
(5:42:19 PM) Kappa: yeah
(5:43:39 PM) Adelene: (It's very arguably harder, even. In some sense impulsively deciding to run into a burning building is very easy. Walking away and *keeping walking* for five days, though?)
(5:43:46 PM) Kappa: yeah