Re: (TFT) back from the olympics

["John" <johnnyboytmm@juno.com>]

Indeed.

TFT's deadliness encourages exploring those non-lethal options too.  Because a fight can turn against you so fast (hey, look the injured prootwaddle rolled a three) that encouraging surrender, and eliminating a few rounds of combat, really helps with the character lifespan.

And it does let you reflect on the moral high ground, or at least whether your actions are morally defensible.  Intelligent races who desire the same resources are good for this, those orcish farmers who have built an agrarian village where your duke sent you to build a dock and wharehuse along the river, for example.

If you just want to test the part's mettle in a brutal fight to teh death, that is what umberhulks and hymenopterans are for.  Nothing like wave after wave of well coordinated hymenopterans defending a hive to test a party's mettle, I always say.



---------- Original Message ----------
From: Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>

	Trying to catch up on all sorts of things, sorry for the 
delayed response.
	One of the reasons I like TFT is that it *does* supply 
non-lethal options. Several spells (Freeze, Sleep, Drop Weapon, 
Avert....), "Subduing Blows", and potions and magic items all enable 
you to overcome your opponents in such a way as to leave them able to 
learn from the experience.
	When I'm playing with the kids, I pretty much *insist* on 
that behavior from them when they have a chance, and when I'm 
refereeing, well, I make it clear that if they take a 
kill-or-be-killed mindset to the world, they might well not end up 
being at the top of the food chain. That seems to help a lot with 
getting the spousal unit interested in the game, and it presents more 
and more interesting challenges to the kids than a simple "hack them 
before they hack you" approach would.
	Healthier than video games that way too, IMHO.
	This connects to the "do we have the moral high ground" 
discussion I allotted in my "ideal gaming session" timeline a few 
posts back, too.
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