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<blockquote data-quote="Bleys" data-source="post: 1095092" data-attributes="member: 12367">Another thing to keep in mind is the influence of Good Stuff, especially if the GM uses a method where it's relative to how many people have it.If everyone seems to be bidding high on stats (and it'd probably be good to keep a record of what everyone's bidding, so you can get a good idea of this) then there's probably a good chance that they'll all go into the Bad Stuff.&nbsp; If they do that, and your GM uses what I mentioned above, then it's entirely possible that a couple of points of Good Stuff will do you wonders!I remember the character I created at the Auction for AmberCon II (with Erick W. running it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) being seemingly blessed because I had 2 (or maybe 3) points of Good Stuff.&nbsp; While most people were getting less than stellar parents (or parents who did next to nothing for them), I was a son of Julian, had a couple of hounds as personal pets who had been with me since I was born, and a horse that was one of the better offspring of Morgenstern... and these were all handed to me be Erick... all because I had so much Good Stuff in relation to everyone else in the game <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Of course, if you want to eschew a lot of powers, another fun thing to do is to keep close track of the auctions and after they're done, buy up to 2nd in every single stat (as long as they went for low enough).&nbsp; Yeah, you're not the best at any 1 thing, but when it comes down to things, you're probably one of the &quot;scariest&quot; of your generation because you can always find some way to overcome those who are better (assuming that 1 person isn't 1st in every stat <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bleys, post: 1095092, member: 12367"] Another thing to keep in mind is the influence of Good Stuff, especially if the GM uses a method where it's relative to how many people have it. If everyone seems to be bidding high on stats (and it'd probably be good to keep a record of what everyone's bidding, so you can get a good idea of this) then there's probably a good chance that they'll all go into the Bad Stuff. If they do that, and your GM uses what I mentioned above, then it's entirely possible that a couple of points of Good Stuff will do you wonders! I remember the character I created at the Auction for AmberCon II (with Erick W. running it ;)) being seemingly blessed because I had 2 (or maybe 3) points of Good Stuff. While most people were getting less than stellar parents (or parents who did next to nothing for them), I was a son of Julian, had a couple of hounds as personal pets who had been with me since I was born, and a horse that was one of the better offspring of Morgenstern... and these were all handed to me be Erick... all because I had so much Good Stuff in relation to everyone else in the game ;) Of course, if you want to eschew a lot of powers, another fun thing to do is to keep close track of the auctions and after they're done, buy up to 2nd in every single stat (as long as they went for low enough). Yeah, you're not the best at any 1 thing, but when it comes down to things, you're probably one of the "scariest" of your generation because you can always find some way to overcome those who are better (assuming that 1 person isn't 1st in every stat ;)) [/QUOTE]

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