Re: (TFT) High Level Play

[Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>]

One way to have the challenge is to have them come against similar  
opponents or lots of weaker foes- as you said, at around 40, you are  
still far from invincible, you are just pretty darn good. So even just  
a few lower powered enemies can quickly dish out enough hits to kill  
you....
See, thing is, with 40 points, you end up with a coupla builds, but  
really, even your highest attribute is a 20 at most, and then you are  
so unbalanced that you are not likely to live very long anyway. So you  
really reach your max around, idk, 17 for a single attribute? And at  
that point, armor (especially of the heavy variety) will really  
decrease your ability to hit still, you still can only take a few hits  
from any mediocre weapon, and you still don't have an insane number of  
spells or talents. So though you'll probably win a one on one against  
a weaker opponent, the game still plays pretty similarly, and a few 32  
pointers can easily take you down.


On Nov 2, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Margaret Tapley wrote:

> On Nov 2, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Joey Beutel wrote:
> > 32 is around an average person, either being fairly young but in
> > good shape because of it, or perhaps a bit older but slightly more
> > experienced.... up to around 36 this represents skilled people, but
> > not anything special..... fairly basic warriors, craftsmen,
> > merchants, criminals, lower aristocrats...
> >
> > At around 40 you start getting into the more elite group- still
> > quite a few people are around this level, but its the better
> > fighters, a good archer, a good scholar, that sorta thing.
> >
> > At 50 you are nigh on one of the most capable people around. Very
> > few people can match your abilities.
> > 60 basically just doesn't happen, and would be somewhere around
> > where you get into superhuman territory.
>
> Seems right on to me. I've GM'd a campaign for awhile with some 40pt
> characters, and individually, they're good but not infallible. In a
> group, though, they're really deadly. To the extent where I sometimes
> have trouble coming up with good challenges.
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