Re: (TFT) Risqué Talents from Interplay #8

[Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

I didn't like these.  

First, people with appearances below 8 (2d6 scale)
can make money in the sex trade.  They likely 
won't make as much, but enthusiasm and effort 
count for a lot.

Second, the whole series of talents give the
prostitutes with the talents with wildly overblown
'super powers'.  You hire a sex worker, and then
become a follower of that person???  And you get 
no saving throw???  If things worked that way
for real, they would give it away for free in 
order to gain slaves.

I consider the whole set of talents non-sense &
would not use them in my campaign.

There have been some attempts to deal with sex
in role playing games in a mature and / or 
interesting fashion, but these talents are far
from the mark. 

Warm regards, Rick.

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 17:37 -0400, John Linzy wrote:
> While looking through the different magazines and what not for
> talents/spells to add I came across this article which included the
> following new talents:
> 
> 
> 
> IQ LEVEL 8
> 
> STREET WALKER (1): Prerequisite: SEX APPEAL and appearance of 8 or better.
> This talent allows a character to make money soliciting, (selling their
> bodies) on the streets or in a brothel.  Also gives character access to
> certain rumors and information that most adventurers would not find readily
> available.  A street walker can allocate experience points to his/her
> appearance, as if it were another attribute.  Characters without this talent
> can attempt streetwalking but the dangers are increased and the money is
> decreased.
> 
> 
> 
> IQ LEVEL 11
> 
> COURTESAN (2): Prerequisite: STREETWALKER and appearance of 10 or better.  A
> Courtesan is capable of seducing members of the opposite sex as if they have
> the NEW FOLLOWERS talent.  Roll 3 dice vs. your IQ if the character is of
> your race; 4 dice vs. IQ if the character is of another race; 5 dice if the
> character is of a hostile race.  A successful roll turns that character into
> a follower of the Courtesan.  The number of followers allowed by a Courtesan
> is half her IQ rounded down, but there will be a problem with jealousy.
> 
>  If her new boyfriends are aware of each other she must roll once per day
> vs. her IQ on 3 dice for each follower that is aware of one or more of her
> other followers.  Failure means the follower will attack the other
> follower(s) and fight to the death over the Courtesan.  You do not need the
> CHARISMA talent for this talent.
> 
> 
> 
> IQ LEVEL 14
> 
> HOURI (3): Prerequisite: COURTESAN and an appearance of 12 or better.  This
> ability includes the CHARISMA Talent.  If you already have the CHARISMA
> talent this ability costs you only 2 IQ points.  A Houri can make a love
> potion like a chemist. (SEE New Potion).  Also a Houri can gain aid from
> bystanders if she should need it.
> 
>  If she petitions for help, any male within sight and sound of her must save
> on 4 dice vs. IQ.  Any of these males failing their roll will immediately
> forego their previous intentions or loyalties, leap to the Houri's side and
> form a protective barrier between her and any assailants, even their own
> party members.  They will fight to the death to protect her or until the
> danger is past.  A Houri knows the Prostitutes Cant at no IQ cost.
> 
> 
> 
> IQ LEVEL 15
> 
> PROCURESS (3) Prerequisite: HOURI.  A person with this talent can open an
> efficiently run a house of ill repute (bordello, geisha house, etc.).  This
> talent also includes BUSINESS SENSE and COURTLY GRACES.  If you already have
> one of these abilities you pay only 2 IQ points for this talent.  If you
> have both of these talents, Procuress costs you only 1 IQ point.  A
> Procuress can have as many girls working for her as she has IQ points.  Also
> she can make simple poison, weapon poison and sleeping potion as if she were
> a chemist.
> 
> 
> 
> STREET WALKER and COURTESAN seem balanced and fair to me but the IQ level
> for HOURI and PROCURESS seem really high: IQ15 makes Procuress the highest
> IQ talent Ive ever seen, so my thought was to decrease HOURI to IQ 12 and
> PROCURESS to IQ 14.
> 
> 
> 
> Just wondering what the group thought about this.
> 
> john
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