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RE: (TFT) Variants = flavor of the age
I'm a bit confused myself. My steppe-living nomadic hunter-gatherer elven
tribes have some oral history.... But I wouldn't call it a recording-based
society. And the deep-forest-dwelling ninja-mage halflings don't herd much
of anything. Those are extreme cases, but the rest seem a bit limiting also
for a fully developed world.
Best,
Eric
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Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:22 PM
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Subject: Re: (TFT) Variants = flavor of the age
I'm confused.? Are you trying to suggest a way to spec out mele characters
based on a person's profession by creating a cross-over key from profession
to race?? Or, are you trying to suggest that all halflings are "herders"??
I'd say that the different races are empowered with different statistics for
evolutionary and genetic reasons, not because they tend to work specific
jobs.? Clearly some jobs are right up their alleyway.? Dwarves are pretty
good at mining because they're short and strong, two clear plusses for a
mine worker.? But running an inventory is more of a personality based job,
not really something built into a race.? Greed or attention to detail could
be cultural, but it's not inborn.
Hmm.. all of that sounded really too nerdish (gnomish) in it's analysis.
Maybe I should take a different tack which would serve to please the
readers.?
Yo, David!? You're being a total racist!? Where do the women fit in your
picture?? Is there a homemaker based economy?? Oh, I guess no economy could
be based off of such a menial task!? The categories are insulting to
prootwaddles and they plan to launch a campaign to smear your name within
the quarter!
Good Fortune,
Richard
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From: pvk@oz.net
To: tft@brainiac.com
Sent: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 2:37 pm
Subject: Re: (TFT) Variants = flavor of the age
I don't quite see what you're suggesting here - your example doesn't go very
far to converting the game to something else, even on a "word value" level;
it just takes one step, where many others would be needed to make a new
cohesive sense.
Otherwise we've just got "Reginald the (cough) Crafting based economy has
the highest DX, so er... it, swings its broadsword at Markus the other
Crafting based economy... Later, Srrga the Transportation based economy
attempts a tail-sweep...".
So, one way that could go is you could make a world-domination wargame using
the TFT combat mechanics, though it wouldn't be much of a representational
match.
And THAT gets at why TFT appealed to me strongly, while D&D didn't, way back
in the day - it's a much closer and caring representation of cause, effect,
and proportion in low-tech combat and world and adventure design, than D&D,
at least from our way of understanding. It suspended our disbelief for many
years...
until we started noticing and being bothered by things like the topics this
board brings up when it suggests rules adjustments; wanting more
unpredictability, options and details; and how powerful/invulnerable the
long-time surviving characters were, especially with a couple of magic
items.
(Our long-term TFT games had characters who essentially broke the TFT combat
system, because most of the established sense-making game world (mostly
typical 28-to-36-point non-magic types) had essentially no chance to make
combat interesting for them, so much of the world was somewhat broken and
not so
interesting.) Then we got more and more interested in making the system more
sa!
tisfying to our more demanding tastes. Then GURPS came and did what we were
doing to TFT, more efficiently, and that kept us satisfied for several more
years, though we also kept tweaking. The only point where the tweaking
really interfered with play was when our main TFT games seemed not a lot of
fun to play, because most of the combats were so predictable unless
something really o utlandish happened.
PvK
--- david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com wrote:
From: David Michael Grouchy II <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Subject: (TFT) Variants = flavor of the age
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:52:49 -0500
Rules variants are the flavor of the age.
So, rules variants are the flavor of the age. Well I've got one. Tell
me what you think. Don't be shy. You know I wouldn't.
Change the HUMANOID RACES to read ``. . . BASED ECONOMY.`` Have all the
exact same stats and special abilities including the penalty of double exp
for some. Use the existing cross breed rules. Here is a conversion table.
MEN = Crafting based economy
ORCS = Plundering based economy
ELVES = Recording based economy
DWARVES = Warehousing based economy
GOBLINS = Appraising based economy
HOBGOBLINS = Handling based economy
HALFLINGS = Herding based economy
PROOTWADDLES = Advertising based economy
CENTAURS = Hunting based economy
GIANTS = Farming based economy
GARGOYLES = Prospecting based economy
REPTILE MEN = Transporting based economy
MERMEN = Fishing based economy
Or is there some important reason that combat should be adjusted before
race is take out of the game. I really hope I'm not alone in seeing this.
It seems incredible how many years people will spend chasing one gnat while
maintaining blindness to the whole camel. It the day ever going to come
where what has the most meaning to us can be summed up in two words. Word
value.
David Michael Grouchy II
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