Re: (TFT) Re: TFT Digest V4 #463

[David Bofinger <bofinger.david@gmail.com>]

​On second thoughts add:

   - ​SUMMON PROOTWADDLE (C: IQ 7, ST 1/1) Summons a prootwaddle [S
T 10, DX
   10, IQ 6, MA 10, carries two-handed maul 1+1, 1-3 unarmed in HTH] to fig
ht
   for the caster.


and modify:

   - UNREALISTIC IMAGE (C: IQ 7, ST 1/-) Creates a translucent 1 hex image
   that wouldn't normally fool anyone. Last 12 turns. Can be disbelieved on
 2
   vs IQ. Can be as effective, or almost as effective, as a normal Image sp
ell
   in difficult seeing conditions (fog, etc.), if the creature being simula
ted
   happens to be translucent, or if the observer is a prootwaddle.

The spells are IQ 7, not IQ 1. Probably should be a space between IQ and 7.
The idea is that an ordinary prootwaddle can't learn them, but one of those
rare freakish prootwaddle geniuses can.

​--
David
​


On 1 December 2015 at 15:05, David Bofinger <bofinger.david@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think animals should have a sort of IQ crippleware. It can do some of
> what IQ does, willpower and perception for instance, but not everything.
> And they have instinctive talents like Alertness.
>
> My IQ 7 spells are:
>
>    - BLUNT WEAPON (T: IQ7, ST 1/-) A blunt weapon does 1 point less
>    damage. A weapon can be blunted up to 5 times, subsequent uses of the 
spell
>    have no effect. Blunting is a permanent effect and can be corrected by
>    Repair or use of a whetstone. Ineffective against weapons that are alr
eady
>    blunt.
>    - FOG (C: IQ7, ST 1/-) Fills one hex with a magical fog that somewhat
>    obscures vision. -2 DX for missiles per hex of fog, and -2 DX if attac
king
>    into or out of it. Anyone in or entering the fog also becomes slightly
>    damp. Lasts 12 turns, or less in wind.
>    - KILL RAT (T: IQ7, ST 1/-) Causes 1 point of damage. Does get stopped
>    by armour.
>    - LITERACY (S: IQ7, ST 2/-) Allows the caster to read and write any
>    languages he knows, but reduces his IQ to 6 and disorders his common s
ense.
>    The spell lasts one minute: long enough to, for instance, write a slog
an on
>    his own or another prootwaddle's body. The negative effects of the spe
ll,
>    however, pretty much guarantee the slogan will be bizarre at best and
>    gibberish at worst.
>    - MAGIC ROCK (M: IQ7, ST V/-) Creates and flings a magic rock to
>    damage a single target. Does 1D-3 (minimum 0) for each ST point used t
o
>    cast.
>    - PROOT! (T: IQ7, ST 1/-) Makes a loud “Proot! Proo-oot!�� noise –
>    louder than a prootwaddle can make. Prootwaddles find the sound reassu
ring.
>    Non-prootwaddles find it irritating.
>    - PUSH / PULL (T: IQ7, ST 2/-) Victim must roll 3 vs DX, or 4 vs ST,
>    victim's choice. If he fails he must step directly away from (for push
) or
>    toward (for pull) the caster, or fall down. (As though forced to retre
at.)
>    Can also be used to push around inanimate objects, or even friends.
>    - SPEED HAIR (T: IQ7, ST 3/-) For the next day the target's hair
>    (wherever on body) grows at twice the normal rate.
>    - SUMMON HOUSE CAT (C: IQ7, ST 1/1) Summons a House Cat [ST 4, DX 14,
>    IQ 5, MA 14. 1-2 in HTH only, -3 DX for enemies to hit it] to fight fo
r the
>    caster.
>    - SUMMON VERMIN (T: IQ7, ST 1/1) Summons vermin to fight for the
>    caster, of a kind with which the caster is familiar: rats, bats, piran
has,
>    piranhakeets, scuttles or something similar at GM discretion. Roll one
 die
>    for the number, -1 if the environment is not really suitable, -2 if hi
ghly
>    unsuitable, -1 for bats, -2 for piranhakeets.
>    - THICKSKINNED (T: IQ7, ST 2/-) Target's skin becomes thick and
>    leathery, it stops 2 hits but the target suffers -1 DX.
>    - UNREALISTIC IMAGE (C: IQ7, ST 1/-) Creates a translucent 1 hex image
>    that wouldn't normally fool anyone. Last 12 turns. Can be disbelieved 
on 2
>    vs IQ. In difficult seeing conditions (fog, etc.) can be almost as
>    effective as a regular Image. Also effective if the creature being
>    simulated happens to be translucent.
>
>
>
> --
> David
>
>
>
> On 1 December 2015 at 13:23, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Agreed David... working up a basic Google.doc for each stat as I
>> currently have worked up. In a 3 stat system each stat needs to do
>> more than a single task and I use IQ as a measure of perception and as
>> a measure of how effective a Figure or Unit can be at micro-managing
>> its time which in effect allows more Followers/Talents/Orders to be
>> carried the higher the IQ. Orders are in effect Talents learned as a
>> Unit and able to be executed en mass and the above is more a rule of
>> thumb guide to what kind of Orders might be expected from a Unit of
>> whathaveyou rather than trying to pin individual IQ's per say...
>> although the point about the monkey is quite interesting... assuming
>> communication was possible such that an Order set was able to be
>> established and the monkey was hip to thinking like a human of course.
>> Plant's as individuals may not influence on a Melee scale of action
>> but the idea of a bio-region of plants being in a network may allow
>> some influence on such activity? Agent Orange? IDK... How much does
>> swimming have to do with smart?
>> Great points to mull over Sir, I'd love to see anything You might have
>> to hand on IQ7 spells by the way... no worries though.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:23 PM, David Bofinger
>> <bofinger.david@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> IQ
>> >> 0 >> >> 1 >> >> 2 >> >> 3 >> >> 4 >> >> 5 >> >> 6 >> >> 7 >> >> 8 >> >> 9 >> >> 10 >> >
>> > TL;DR but I picked this up skimming. My first instinct is that it's go
t
>> to
>> > be wrong. By these definitions a fighter who owned a pet monkey might 
be
>> > well advised to let it handle the thinking.
>> >
>> > IQ 7 lets you buy weapon skills. I don't know if anyone's taught a
>> monkey
>> > to fence, but I would guess someone in a circus has tried so probably
>> they
>> > failed.
>> >
>> > Great apes will occasionally use clubs but that doesn't require a
>> talent.
>> >
>> > Some apes have been taught e.g. sign language but that has no IQ
>> threshold
>> > unless you call it literacy in which case it's IQ 8.
>> >
>> > Maybe chimps are IQ 4 to 6? That leaves prootwaddles slightly smarter
>> than
>> > most chimps which seems right.
>> >
>> > Birds vary a lot. Some birds, mostly corvids and parrots, are really
>> quite
>> > smart, probably maxing out at IQ 5 or 6. On the other hand ratites ten
d
>> to
>> > be idiots.
>> >
>> > Dolphins aren't as smart as popularly imagined.
>> >
>> > Working at the trailing edge of intellect reminds me of when I wrote u
p
>> IQ
>> > 7 spells for prootwaddle wizards. Magic Rock!
>> >
>> > --
>> > David
>> >
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