Re: (TFT) Is this horse dead yet?

[<Gavin@TheFantasyQuest.com>]

Kirk,

The curve you speak of all applies to training:  in your words, "the more 
you train the less you get for
> your effort". <in my world, it's the Law of Diminishing Returns">.

This certainly makes sense in a skill-level system, but not necessarily in a 
system where a character's only measure of skill - of all of his various 
skills - is DX.

And even more to the point, that's all in the training.  It doesn't in any 
way apply to practical application.

It seems like "double-dipping" to apply the curve to learning ("learning 
curve", anyone?) and ALSO apply the curve to application.  And really, 
what's the point?  Who's to say a roll of 14 should be significantly 
far-removed from a roll of 13?

Don't you guys just think it comes down to opinion?

Gavin Gossett
The Fantasy Quest
TFQ Games

Gavin@TheFantasyQuest.com
www.TheFantasyQuest.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Woller" <kwoller@satx.rr.com>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:35 PM
Subject: (TFT) Correction


> Of course, I worded this poorly.  I meant to say early on in the curve 
> from
> the centerThe biggest changes come in the (center( of the curve, e.g. 9 
> to
> 10 or 10 to 11 and drop off as you move away from the center, which was 
> the
> primary point of my post.  You lose skill pretty fast from the center of 
> 10,
> or gain it with some training, but the more you train the less you get for
> your effort, and the longer you let that skill diminish, the less you lose
> per skill point lost.
>
> I had included four graphs to speak to, but they didn4t make to the 
> posting
> and so what I said didn4t really come off quite right.  Thanks Neil for
> bringing this to my attention.
>
> -Kirk
>
> Quoting Kirk Woller <kwoller@satx.rr.com>:
> > If you want to be better than 50% with your skill, then you
> have to
> > add a point.  Early on in the curve, you are adding a lot of % with
> > that one point.
>
> > Um, not quite. On a 3D6 curve, the greatest percentage increas is from
> > 9 to 10 and from 10 to 11. Think area under the curve. That's not early in
> the curve (3 to 4, etc.)
>
> > Neil Gilmore
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