Re: (TFT) "Average" characters

[Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

An average peasant, the age of a starting PC should be 30 att.

The PC's are above average.

However, I don't feel bad about making NPC peasants 34 att
and the like if they manage to reach 30 or 40 years old.

Rick


On Jun 25, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Greg Thorne wrote:

> I wanted to get some opinions on "starting" characters.
>
> For humans, the starting player character is 32 points.  But in the  
> rules it states that a 10 for an attribute represents the 'average'  
> for a human.  So that means that the typical villager or peasant  
> will be ST=10, DX=10, IQ=10.  (It would also follow that since  
> there are so many high attribute characters in adventures, that a  
> typical peasant may be closer to ST=9, DX=9, IQ=9).
>
> But every published TFT supplement that I have been able to read,  
> has ALL the (human) characters and opponents as at 32 point  
> characters.  Should this be so?  Shouldn't a large part of the  
> population consist of 30 point characters?  Or is the assumption  
> that all the 30 point characters choose safe, boring town jobs, and  
> that only the 'above average' characters would get accepted into  
> the army, guard duty, or whatever the player characters are going  
> to face?
>
> Opinions?  Comments?
>
> -Greg Thorne
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