Subject: Re: (TFT) Goblin port
I think the problem of using foot races is that they do not represent what medieval warriors (even the heroic ones) could do, in that medieval warriors have armor, weapons, and no special training as athletes, and also because over the years the 'winning times' 'creep up' and become better...... so the best score today is not the same as the best score in the 1100s, let alone the normal score for a warrior.
This is certanly a fair point.I suppose what I'm trying to point out is that wargames tend towards averages while RPG's seem to trend towards extreams. I've found that if I can explain a norm effectivly in 'game-terms' then I can expand the norm in a much more comunicative way for all concerned. Without some way of getting everybody in the same imaginative ballpark I think the game starts to become about the dice rather than the ideas.
As far as the actual transportation of a Figures equipment, I think moving things around on the map is a major point of economics. A gold coin found in a dead goblins pocket should draw out of an overall campaign account so to speak.
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