Re: (TFT) Jobs table

[raito@raito.com]

Quoting "David O. Miller" <davidomiller@verizon.net>:
> Then we started playing. The first three hours was all about how much
> cargo could we carry and how big a ship we needed and how far could we
> go to get the maximum yield for our investment. Some math nerd whipped
> out a calculator and started doing algebra, and two players got into
> an argument with the referee trying to prove that their interpretation
> of the economics rules were correct. 

Sounds like my first C&S outing. 

> The point of this story is that in all honesty I, in over 30 years of
> playing TFT, have never even read through the economic rules more than
> a casual glance. IMHO they appear to be dry, counter productive to
> both creativity and what the game is, at heart, all about. They are
> simply not needed. I've often wondered why they were even put in there
> in the first place. (Most likely because they were trying for a
> complete RPG package and felt like they had to pad the rules out a
> bit. They were competing with D&D at the time after all.) And, for
> what it's worth, let me point out that Steve Jackson didn't even write
> the economics rules. As he mentions 75% were done by a playtester
> named Draper Kauffman, Jr. 

There are of more use to the GM. But I don't find them coutnerproductive. 

> The same can be said for other elements of ITL. I don't really use,
> nor rely on, the random stocking tables, trap tables, guilds, weight
> carried and I especially don't use Prootwaddles. 

There's a bunch of milieu stuff I don't use (it's not Cidri), but I do 
use Prootwaddles... 


.. as a threat. 

The again, there's a bunch I do use, like the Thorsz. 

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com
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