Quoting Joey Beutel mejobo@comcast.net:
What do you mean by 'how to make characters less powerful?'
From: raito@raito.com
I mean, no one ever says, "These characters are to powerful. I
think we
should do something so that they're less so." I have seen no
proposals
for this.
What I do see is people trying to put more numbers on their character
sheets.
I'm very much with Ratio on this one. I'm far more dangerous and
angry about
it though, saying things like 'the need for more numbers is the sign
of a weak
mind.' I could run an entire solar system of planets full of
people, through
all tech levels, and with infinite variety (including things like
inteligent
robots and baby scaleless dragons) with the existing In The
Labyrinth systems.
I have witnesses who can verify this.
One of the reasons I have cut way way back on postings, is the urge
to jump in
an point out how much time people are wasting just doesn't work. If
people
like adding numbers and fiddly bits to their game let them. Let
them waste
their time and be totally dumb in missing the greatest game system
ever made.
No concern of mine.
I mean look at what my Ideas did to poor Jay. I showed him the four
dimensional tesseract way of looking at the entire system, but like
a man
trapped inside that tesseract he keeps running from room to room and
looping
back on himself.
I've written posts on this very forum showing how a single talent in
TFT is
exactly equal to an entire character class in AD&D. I mean it's
really really
obvious. Theif, Priest, Warrior, Steve Jackson didn't even change
the names.
Slow down and hear the words for a second. I mean Illusionist is an
ENTIRE
character class in AD&D. It's a two point talent in TFT.
TFT is god level play. Not 'can be', not 'close to', but 'IS'.
I have written countless posts showing direct conversions of Dieties
from the
Dieties & Demigods books into begining 32 point TFT characters, and
prooved
that it can be done. Not only that, I can fit almost all of them on
a single
3x5 inch index card.
So go ahead. Play the game of bigger numbers, and more of them.
And I'll
continue lurking here until someone can raise up a child with a four
dimensional mind so I can continue the conversation with someone who
has a
clue.
As to 'why' am I saying this, and 'why' am I saying this 'now?'
Because I want the subscribers to know, I don't have a problem with
people
personalizing the game.
Go ahead and 'fix', I'll even help point out balance where I can.
But don't think for a minute, that some of us don't already
recognize the
masterpeice for what it is.
/rant off
David Michael Grouchy II
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