Re: (TFT) MA issues, proposed fix

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

Seems reasonable, and not unbalancing, to me.

Oddly, in the 30 odd years (yikes) I've been doing this, the issue that I could sprint faster than MA10 has never come up in game.  Which has been my experience with a lot of the things that there are house rules to "fix".  We never encountered them as broken.

I wonder what that says about my group of friends.




---------- Original Message ----------
From: Margaret Tapley <barnswallow@sbcglobal.net>
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: (TFT) MA issues, proposed fix
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 18:08:52 -0500

I have a friend who I just managed to hook on TFT (by giving him  
teasers about the cool new campaign world I'm designing... ha ha...).  
This afternoon we were out running around, lifting heavy stuff, and  
generally trying to figure out what our attribute scores would be.

Neither of us train as runners, so according to the rules, we should  
each have MA 10, aka 13 meters in 5 seconds.

Tests on a makeshift track marked on the sidewalk indicated that each  
of us can run at least 20 meters (probably more - we only marked out  
10 meters...), from a standstill, in 5 seconds. That, of course,  
represents a full-out sprint and an unarmored figure, on a flat  
surface, running in a straight line.

So, proposed modification: You can sprint at 150% of your MA, but you  
must be runnning in a straight line, and you spend 1 fatigue point per  
2 turns you sprint (allowing my friend, at ST 8, to run top speed for  
1 minute (12 turns) before he is forced to choose between slowing to  
10 hexes/turn and falling unconscious).

This gives:
Base MA: 10 (13 m/turn)
Sprinting MA: 15 (19.5 m/turn)
which more or less fits what we got.

Reasonable? Balanced? I'd be interested in hearing other peoples'  
fixes/thoughts/comments...

- Meg
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