Re: (TFT) TFT Campaigns

["Brennan O'Brien" <veilheim@yahoo.com>]

God, David... I am so sorry, in this the first email I
will send of the millenium, that it must be an
apology.  I certainly didn't want to do the damage
this question clearly has to your psyche.  

Thanks for the overview of the necessary IQ to become
the ultimate in TFT character.  Both from your
comments as well as those of others make me more
assured that going forward with a long term campaign
won't present me with anything too out of the ordinary
in the future.  

Thanks everyone, and happy new year!

Brennan

--- David Michael Grouchy II
<david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: "Brennan O'Brien" <veilheim@yahoo.com>
> >Subject: (TFT) TFT Campaigns
> >Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:18:45 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >Hi all...
> >
> >A question which has been bugging me for a while,
> and
> >I am wondering if any of you have dealt with
> this...
> >
> >It seems to me that in a roleplaying game of TFT
> that
> >experience over time would make for some pretty
> hefty
> >characters.  I was wondering what some of you have
> >done in longer campaigns to either keep the power
> >level in check (you know, when the characters are
> >getting to IQ25, and they have (it seems) every
> skill
> >available)?
> >
> >Thoughts??
> >
> >Brennan
> 
>    Bugging you.  Hahah, this question has been
> eating me alive.  I hate this 
> question.  The first time I heard it was in a D&D
> newsgroup on Delphi.com 
> back in 1991.  Then it was asked on
> rec.games.frp.dnd in 1993.  I always 
> prefered TFT anyway and when I found this mailing
> list I thought to myself 
> 'surely the question won't come up here!'
>   The problem I have with it is it is never specific
> enough.  I could, and 
> have, written thousands of words on the subject, but
> it doesn't matter.  
> Imagine I am a high level assasin you are employing
> to kill a high level 
> hero named 'Conan'.  Which of the following
> statements would you use?
>   ''I want you to kill a high level guy''
>   ''I want you to kill Conan''
>   I can kill Conan.  I don't stand a chance against
> some guy.
> 
>   With this in mind, answer some questions for me.
>   How did this guy get to 25 IQ?
>   How many times has he been revived from death?
>   Did the player bring this guy up from a begining
> character?
>   Has the player ever had a character die before?
>   Is this guy married and does his wife even like
> him?
>   Does this guy have any children who can't wait to
> inheirit?
> 
>   In lieu of the answers here are the higlights of
> the infomation about 
> handling some high level guy.
> 
>   A begining character ST:8 DX:8 IQ:16, could
> acheive 25 IQ with only 1,500 
> exp or a mere nine critical sucesses on the job
> table.
> 
>   IQ 190 covers all tallents
>       29        all mundane tallents
>       15        listed languages
> 
>   IQ 122 covers all spells
>       19        all command words
> 
>   Grand total to cover all spells and tallents
>   IQ 375
> 
>   This means that even dragons have room for
> improvement.  It can also be 
> inverted.  If these spells and talents were divided
> into about 38 people, 
> that group could know everything.  Ali Baba and the
> fourty theives may have 
> had all the talent in the world.
> 
>    David Michael Grouchy II
>
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