What scale do you prefer in your RPGs?
What scale do you prefer in your RPGs?
Daniel Watson
Cameron Collins
your brain will shorthand big numbers no matter what so it doesn’t make any difference the bigger you go
Brayden Brown
Whichever version lets me fuck the dragon
Angel Ortiz
Aaron Russell
>What scale do you prefer
The lusty ones
If the game is more tactical, lower numbers, if the game wants to go for more epic battles, the higher numbers
Cameron Jackson
1-2 digit numbers early game, slowly transitioning into 3 digits late game. Any values in the thousands should be reserved for meta gaming builds or characters with plenty of buffs. This offers objectively the best sense of progression, 1-2 digits represents human power levels, while 3-4 digits represents fantasy-tier powers.
Easton Watson
Top one is the best but if you have a game with tons of modifiers you can go up to something in the 10k to 100k range. Anything more than that is just overkill.
Tyler Ramirez
Smol numbers that scale up into the thousands, not millions
Jaxon Long
This. Never understood Disgaea. Hell even the games round the numbers to the closest billion after a certain point.
Adam Peterson
5000-ish should be max for health bars
Thomas Sullivan
kill yourselves zoophiles
William Ortiz
The above (anything beyond 4 digits is absurd) is great.
The issue is that it's much easier to balance around big numbers than small numbers, since decimal calculations are a big no-no in RPGs and RPGs love to power-creep the player to have them overwhelm everyone else.
Samuel Lopez
Gains potion so I'm stronger
If it was only for one fight I'd take the berserk potion
Wyatt Powell
top. the numbers hold more weight and meaning and make it easier to assess strategically. less guesswork.
Oliver Fisher
I like both.
Gabriel Williams
I like 9,999 as upper bounds for HP
Low HP amount (1-30) pisses me off and remind me of some gay indie tabletop-like games.
I'd rather my dude swing a sword and do 450 damage to a guy with 3500 HP. It just feels like the right scale to me
Carter Howard
Dragons pass the harkness test plus they're hot
Jace Scott
i love "low" effort art like this. it has so much SOVL. cute dragon.
also, i prefer the top scale. fewer digits.
Elijah Phillips
Ah, the Richter Scale then.
Carter Torres
Big numbers are fun, but as far as gameplay goes I actually prefer a middle ground like Mario&Luigi or Kingdom Hearts.
Blake Foster
I turned it into a modern western CRPG
John Reed
Start with 1-10 damage numbers, end up in thousands.
Elijah Taylor
grug like big number
big number make grug feel strong
Adrian Johnson
Depends on game speed. The faster and more complex the combat is, the higher the number.
Jason King
Low to mid numbers carry more weight. Once you start dealing a billion damage per attack there are like 8 digits of damage that don’t mean shit in the grand scheme of things and are just a pointless mess on the screen. Dissidia Opera Omnia is also pretty bad about this shit where everyone is hitting for the damage cap so they just add more and more hits to every single move. The damage number spam blocks out the actual attack animations and you can’t glean any meaningful information off of anything anymore. It’s terrible.
Mason Campbell
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