Re: (TFT) New TFT Attribute -- Size

[ErolB1@aol.com]

I use a highly simplified size attribute: "Size," in my games, is the 
critter's size in hexes. But this also includes "1/2 hex" beings and "1-1/2 hex" 
beings. Both occupy one hex on the combat grid, but use the 0.5 or 1.5 number in 
calculations involving size. 

For example, I require sprinting characters to pay 2 St (fatigue) *per hex of 
size* - thus 1/2 hex beings pay 1 St, normal-sized 1 hex beings pay 2 St, 1.5 
hex beings pay 3 St, 2 hex beings pay 4 St and so on. 

Likewise, a Megahex Freeze spell requires a save of 4 dice *per hex of size 
in the area of effect* - so a normal 1-hex figure would roll 4 dice, a 1.5 hex 
figure would have to roll 6 dice, a 3 hex giant would have to roll 12 dice, 
and so on. 

1.5 hex figures are also harder to knock down with high weapon damage, while 
0.5 hex figures are easier to knock down. 

One problem with this system is what happens when the saving throw is an odd 
number of dice for a one-hex figure. 

I have a talent that human and orc characters can take, to make them 1.5 hex 
figures - it gives them increased St, but also the disadvantages of the bigger 
size. Lizardmen already get this talent as a racial feature. 

Erol K. Bayburt
Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow
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