RE: (TFT) Variants = flavor of the age

["" <pvk@oz.net>]

Ah! In that case, I quite agree, though the giants and reptile men would want some appropriate explanations. 

In fact, that's more like how I've designed most game worlds since I stopped setting new games in Cidri. One of the first world/cosmology/evolutionary-histories that a couple of us old TFT players designed a couple years after starting using GURPS had races based on something similar - they were all originally humans, some with non-human racial profiles (with very ancient historical explanations from artificial eugenic-y designs), and then cultural and professional profiles layered on. 

Also, IIRC, at least one (independently produced) computer game that had different attribute levels (and I think talents and equipment) from culture but everyone was essentially human (I'm thinking of Runesword, now open source - see http://www.runesword.com/rs2.html).

PvK

--- david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com wrote:

From: David Michael Grouchy II <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Subject: RE: (TFT) Variants = flavor of the age
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:42:32 -0500

> From: pvk@oz.net

>

> 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...".

Peter,
    Ah, yes I see.  I intended the example to be more along these lines.  The
Race of Men produced ``Reginald``, and the Race of Lizard Men produced
``Srrga``.  By using this substitution to take race out of the game it would
be phrased differently.  A Crafting based economy produced ``Reginald``, and a
Tranport based economy produced ``Srrga.``  Any form of cultural Identity
could be used though.  Not necessarily an economic one.

David Michael Grouchy II


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