RE: (TFT) Fatigue: A Discussion - Part 1 --> POW and races.

["rsmith" <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

Hi Dave,
	Superscripts are not on any website yet.  (I've
been meaning to work them up for Joe's site but they
are not done.)  They were published in an old Inept
Adept and there was some discussion of them in the
TFT mailing list archive.

	Actually I've got a week's vacation coming up,
revising those rules and getting them up would likely
be a good project for me.


	David Michael Grouchy 2's discussion on 
different races and POW is well founded I think.
Sooner or later you are going to have a Reptileman
or Ogre that wants to be a magic user.  (In my 
campaign Ogres are huge and fairly smart.)  So 
having general rules that will handle any race is
a good thing.

	Rick


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I guess I need to clarify.  I did not mean to exactly copy the POW concept
from Runequest, just the term.  we use POW to merely separate magic power
from physical power (ST).  spell-casting uses POW points that may be
"recharged" with rest.  raising POW with experience affects only magic use,
not ST.

also, we only assign a POW attribute to a magic-using being, not anyone
else.  I
think that would eliminate the nasty POW numbers you mentioned.

which web site has the "superscrip variant" you mentioned.  I don't seem to
find it after a bit of browsing....

thanks,
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tft-owner@brainiac.com
> [mailto:tft-owner@brainiac.com]On Behalf Of
> David Michael Grouchy II
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:44 PM
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: Re: (TFT) Fatigue: A Discussion - Part 1
>
>
> >From: "Home" <davidar@direcway.com>
> >
> >we have soaked this concept a good bit of playtesting, but
> >only with humans.  if anyone has suggestions for other races,
> >please do so.
>
> David,
>     One suggestion for other races comes to mind for the
> Humanoid races, and
> their starting POW attribute.  Hobbits start with ST 4, and
> extra points.
> Giants start with ST 25 and no extra points.  The Mac-Daddy
> starting wizard
> is a Reptile Man with ST 14, and 8 extra points.  This is
> because the Giant
> has a maximum IQ of 10.
>     On the surface it would seem that the starting POW of
> each race should
> be equal to its starting ST.  This makes the use of POW more
> consistent with
> how TFT already works.  But knowing how POW works in
> Runequest, particularly
> the contest of power and sacrificing a point of POW for a
> rune-ability, this
> method gives unusual advantages to the Giant, and overly
> weakens the hobbit
> in comparison.
>     When one starts looking at the monsters it gets worse.  A
> dragon with
> POW 100 would be a terror.  The ogres are just as bad as the
> Giants.  And an
> Octopi with ST 20 would start out as a rune-preist.  May I
> suggest the
> following formula.
>
>     Starting POW =  ( starting ST / HEX size ) + walking MA / 2
>
>     Examples       starting POW
> Man                     9
> Elf                    10
> Hobbit                  7
> Giant                   9
> Gargoyle               12
> Reptile Man            12
> 1-hex Dragon            9
> 14-hex Dragon           8
> Ogre                    9
> Octopi                 14
>
>    Of course, I don't know how much of the Rune Quest
> tradition you are
> using with the POW rules.  And also I highly recommend the superscrip
> variant that has been posted.
>
>
>    David Michael Grouchy II
>
>
>
>
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