Re: (TFT) Weapon Skill Levels

["Jay Carlisle" <Jay_Carlisle@charter.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Skipper"

> Trolling through old websites and such, I've found some advanced combat 
> rules
> on Ty's old website with Talents that allowed expert weapon users to force 
> the
> opponent to roll extra dice to hit them.

> While I suppose that if I were going to
> limit Talents to only the character's IQ, then fair enough... you only 
> have so
> many skills and you've sacrificed a lot to get to that level of ability.

I take the number of IQ pts needed to learn a Talent as an indication of how 
many hours per day a Figure needs to devote to "staying in practice".
I do allow Figures to Master and become Experts in a Talent and for ST based 
Talents a Master moves the statistical point cost over to ST as a part of 
muscel memory.

> But, if you are allowing PCs to purchase multiple levels of skill with
> weapons, like in the Legends system from Dark City Games, it seems like 
> you
> can be less generous.
> So I was thinking about this.  Characters buy proficiency with a weapon
> (group).  they they spend more talent points into the weapon buying 
> levels.
> Now, like in Legends, you can choose to use these levels either as a + to
> damage or to hit, and split them from round to round as you desire.  But I 
> was
> thinking to allow for some level of defensive skill, the levels could be 
> used
> defensively to subtract from the opponent's chance to hit.
> Ragnar has +3 levels with his weapon.  When he gets in a fight, on his 
> turn,
> he can split those levels how he wishes.  Perhaps he wants a +1 to hit,
> damage, and a -1 to his chances of being hit.  Or maybe he's facing 
> several
> bad guys and he wants to fight full defense so he puts the levels in 
> defense
> subtracting 3 from his opponent's Dex.  Or, he has a foe on the ground and 
> he
> needs to end the fight now, so he jacks up his damage by 3 for that swing.
> What do you think?

Interesting but how does one get one of these levels?
Related to that question, the way I see it hanging a -3.5 to hit on an 
opponent is a lot like makeing them roll another die.
So having 3 or 4 levels like that in a weapon skill can work kindda like Ty 
describes maybe?

If weapon levels are a lot cheeper than a stat point then I'd look for 
special abilities like ways for players to spend big chuncks of levels on as 
manuvers or something like a sweeping blow that attacks 3 hexes with one 
Action for... call it 10 levels for 2 seperate Figures and +10 for each 
additional 3d6 att.
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