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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 1149631" data-attributes="member: 1016">I tend to disagree with your assesment, no offense. Your "BAB" (Fighting abilties) wasn't penalized for being human in the Aeon/Trinity system, neither was your "saves" (Soak rolls and DEX checks) you also had access to the same Alliegences (classes). A normal human may have started out weaker, but he wasn't penalized in his advancement.To be more accurate for your own case, you'd pretty much have to say that playing a normal human in Trinity would be to chose the race "normal human" and find out that it was weaker than the race "psion" because you got less attribute bumps. From that point, it depends on whether the GM wants a more "realistic" game ("well psions do have a natural advantage, what did you expect when you insist on playing a normal?") or a more "balanced" game ("Powers, Smowers, I've got gear and attitude, I show those short-cutting punks what a real man is all about.") (On that note, you will want to check out Adventure!'s Daredevils -- they are all about that very theme. In fact at the end of Trinity's metaplot, these type of guys comeback on the scene. ... see you quit too soon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) So a GM could have given out another "5" points if he thought the norms were too weak, or he could have used the more detailed rules in the Trinity Players Guide.In fact, as twist in one game that I never got to run, I wanted to do an all normal team. It would have been fun to have them go up against psions, mostly because the designer made psionics just on par with the tech in the game. i.e. the main advantage to being a psion was that you had to carry less gear, i.e. your doctor carried some of his medkit "inside" him. Again, this might have been part of Trinity's failing. It was too "high-powered" for those who perfer gear over psionics and yet it was also too "low-powered" for those who perfer psionics over gear.It seems at the heart of it, though, you perfer your SF to focus on "unenhanced" people. There was plenty for "normal" (mundane to Jame Bond) to do in the Aeon/Trinity game, again since that wasn't the focus of the game, you could either just substitute more gear for the loss of powers or you had to read and find the info you needed (such as a normal human could go to both pro and anti psion rallies and not cause a fuss, or set off any "psi" senstive alarms.)Btw, congrats that you got an original Aeon cover, I happen to have one too. It seems that mine got more use, despite the funky "zappy" illos. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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