(TFT) (TFT) Risqué Talents from Interplay #8

[rich <sca_rickard@yahoo.com>]

John - I added these talents to my game lists but no one has tried them yet.  I did not lower the IQ costs on the higher ones -- These seem pretty powerful to me and I wanted them to be something a player has to really work for.  The talents in total seem to me to create a unique and powerful person such as a Companion on the show Firefly.  I don't think everyone in your adventuring party is going to make a mad dash to become street walkers if you add the talents, but they are interesting and possibly are useful to flesh out a great GM character.

Regarding the Appearance personality facet and the Street Walker talent -- I read this as a character's Appearance is either initially selected or randomly roll to be 8+ (per pg. 7) in order to be able to buy the Street Walker talent.  After buying the talent, experience points can be traded in for an additional attribute point in Appearance (instead of ST, DX, IQ).  I personally think this would be a wasteful thing to do, but what the heck do I know about a person's value of beauty.  Obviously one would need to do this if they were an 8 or 9 and needed to be a 10 to move up to being a Courtesan, etc.

Regarding a Houri taking over your player character and making him/her fight to the death -- It is very unlikely.  A player character would have to invest 7 points (possibly more if she was born ugly), have a 14IQ, really not like you or your character (I assume you and the Houri player are both in the same player party if you are both player characters), a fighting situation is occurring, AND you would have to both fail the IQ save and be a bad/unlucky fighter in order to die.  Alternately, if the Houri is a GM character and if the GM wants to kill you, there are plenty of ways for that to happen.  Personally, I think that if your character died in one of these situations, one way or the other -- you probably deserved it.  

Happy gaming with or without these talents.  -Rich

--- On Mon, 7/11/11, PvK <pvk@oz.net> wrote:

> From: PvK <pvk@oz.net>
> Subject: (TFT) Re: (TFT) RisqueL
 Talents from Interplay #8
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 11:50 PM
> Yes, though it's just part of the
> optional quick & easy random character generator offered
> there as a way to help players generate characters when and
> if they feel rolling dice would be faster than making
> something up. The author of the Interplay article seems to
> have either misread that, or be proposing it be elevated for
> this purpose, or perhaps it could be taken as some sort of
> hybrid where you could just choose your characters'
> attractiveness, but some characters might have it rolled up,
> or the population is theoretically spread over a 2d6 on that
> scale, or something.
> 
> i.e.: ITL: "It's better to start from scratch, if you have
> the time . . .
> but if you're out of ideas and need a character in a hurry,
> you
> can roll dice, using the following tables, to get a
> profession and
> personality for a new character." 
> 
> --- rsmith@lightspeed.ca
> wrote:
> ...
> I agree with everything you have said Neil, but
> Appearance is a 'personality facet' which is 
> rolled on a 2d6.B  See page 7 of ITL middle of
> page.B  It is not an attribute that can be 
> bought up with experience.
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