Re: (TFT) Jobs table: 100,000 simulated soldiers and farmers

[PvK <pvk@oz.net>]

--- hulkasgt@yahoo.com wrote:
"If the rules can't sustain the campaign world described in published sources, there's clearly a problem with the rules."

That's true... except that the problem doesn't necessarily matter, if it only becomes a problem if you try to do something with it, that you would never actually do. It's even less of a problem if you know that doing that would be a problem, and if you can change it if and when you ever do try to do the thing you'd never do with it.

Which, from one way of looking at it, which I think is found almost everywhere you see the phrase "GM discretion" in ITL, is why it's ok to use GM discretion rather than inventing perfect rules systems that cover everything with ultimate consistency.

... "Talents based on IQ were a great idea. The jobs table was a great idea. What they both need is a complete re-write to bring the probabilities in line with the world they're trying to convey. Sadly, that will never happen."

Why not? One could try, if one wanted to?
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