Re: (TFT) new rules: UC talents and character generation

["Dan Tulloh" <dwtulloh61@cox.net>]

LOL .. Welcome to the list, John!   :)

As Charles said, VERY interesting read!  I agree with the ideas you've
put forth, but I'm not sure I agree with the mechanics.

First, Character Generation.  Of course you realize that you've ripped
the guts out of TFT with the die-rolling in that you can't design your own
character from a point total.  And your knowledge idea: I think I would
have approached this in a slightly different way:  you buy your talents with
knowledge points, but lower IQ makes it harder to earn knowledge points,
higher IQ makes it easier.  And the way to handle some of those high IQ
talents would have been to remove the IQ requirement and make them
have prerequisite talents instead.

And I think I would bring in the idea of scale from Fudge and apply that
to the ST stat.  For example, Melissa may have an ST of 15 compared
to other halflings - but that might be an 8 when compared to humans.

And the personal maximum tables.  I think I would've actually had these
tables overlap each other somewhat.  Take your 14/42 table for instance.
The odds of getting an 18 or a 37 are extremely remote.  Again, I like
the idea, but I'd change the implementation.  And I don't think I would
let the maximums be that high.  Melissa having a maximum dex of 31, for
example -- that just seems outlandish to me.

Now the UC talents.  Very good work here.  The only thing that bothers
me is the concept of scale.  For example, a giant should be able to chuck
a halfling or dwarf quite a ways, a human not so far.  In other words, the
rules seem to work well as long as the combatants are approximately the
same size.

Thats all I have at the moment - again, very good work here.  I'm sure I
will be incorporating these in some way, shape or form into my game.

Dan

>
> I do hope I have not discouraged you! I do not mean any of this harshly,
and
> I do admire the time, thought, and effort that went into your rules
> proposals, and hope you do more! I just feel a need to dispel a few myths.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Gfoeller" <johng3110@hotmail.com>
> Subject: (TFT) new rules: UC talents and character generation
>
> > Hi, all !
> >
> > I have some house rules for TFT that I posted online.
> > http://johntft.tripod.com   One is for the Unarmed Combat talents; the
> > other is for character generation.  There will be more later.  My
> > apologies for any typos.  Let me know what you think !
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