I'm glad I sent in my last minute HARP article. Where are all the other Harpers at?
An alternative option is to give DP point values to the stat bonuses and the Endurance/Power Points bonuses. Then if you want your race to have Endurance exceeding 60, they can, but it reduces the DPs they get for talents/racial abilties and stat bonuses.
Feel free to add on any additional options to my idea, or tweak what I came up with, as some of you are better at clarifying and adapting my crazy ideas into something more cohesive. hehe.
Having the ability to have a race that has higher values in Endurance, Power Points, Resistance Bonuses, and/or Stat Bonuses with a lower Development Point total cost for the Racial Special Abilities sounds interesting. Again, the final decision for doing anything is left up to the GM as the final layer of defense.
Finally, be careful with the talent and racial abilities DP costs. Some seem to be a bit out of whack in comparison to others. You need to make sure the GM reviews them and doesn't just assume that the numbers make sense.
Depending on the setting some Talents and Racial Special Abilities might actually be worth more, as they would be more useful. Feel free to change the price of the Racial Special Abilities I priced in DPs, as the prices that I listed were just me trying to figure out how powerful they were, and what they should be priced at. As in anything, everyone has their own opinion, and that's a good thing.
Just a few thoughts.... I like the general idea very much.
As always, you have a way of pointing out what could be better with my submissions. Thanks for that, and I'm glad you enjoyed my idea.
I've noticed that most of the races that I've made lately fall in the 60 DP total for Racial Special Abilities, as the math just isn't there sometimes to actually get up to 65. Having variant rules for Hybrid races works, and I think the above suggestions work well for that.
Excellent contribution from the excellent and prolific Samewise7. Surely you must enjoy 36-hour-long days guy!
I'm prolific? Hehe, I didn't think I was. I guess I do dabble in a few online RPG things... RPG Junkie + Computer Addiction = Prolific I guess.
hehe. I actually work like 52-60 hours a week, and most of my free time is listening to metal and bumming around the internet.