(TFT) Skills and Spells

[Marc Gacy <marcgacy@earthlink.net>]

Hi all,

Thinking about how to organize a "plain text" TFT, I thought about a
futile attempt I made a while back to create "my perfect RPG".
I planned on stealing from what I liked about every other RPG I played,
realizing that most of them hinged on how they used Skills and Spells
(which was my working title).
First I mapped out what you need to do in a game and then fill in the
mechanics from there. I didn't really get much further, but I think the
exercise generated a nice outline, which I'm willing to share. Note
that this is very mechanics based, without much on campaign worlds and
the like, as the generation of a campaign world is usually not cause
for in-game discussion, like many of the things listed below are. My
gut feeling is that if you address the topics below, asking more
detailed questions as needed, you'll have a pretty good start at
mapping out an RPG. Or even, making a giant table, with a number of
RPGs each one addressing how they handle the topic.

Just food for thought,

- Marc


1) Introduction
2) Character development
    a)   Attributes
    b)   Classes
    c)   Levels
    d)   Skills & Spells
       i)    Domains
       ii)   Prerequisites
       iii)  Usage - Combat & Non-Combat
    e)   Handicaps
3) Non-combat interaction
    a)   Opposed interactions
b)   Unopposed interactions
    c)   Modifiers
4) Combat interactions
    a)   When to do what
b)   How to move
    c)   How to hit
d)   How to do damage
e)   Modifiers
    f)    Non combat interactions during combat
5) Advancement
    a)   Personal
    b)   Societal
6) System conversion
    a)   d20
b)   d100
    c)   3dX
    d)   Xd6
    e)   d6
7) Skills list
    a)   Categories
    b)   Descriptions
8) Spell list
    a)   Categories
    b)   Descriptions
9) Bestiary
    a) How to create monsters
    b) Sample monsters
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