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

["gem6868" <gem6868@verizon.net>]

Well, magic has no precedent in 'reality', and a GM can just dispose of it 
in any of a dozen ways.  Most easily, people who have special abilities like 
magic tend to be loners who aren't about to stand in a huge battle line and 
exchange bolts of power with someone.  Anyone who has that kind of rare 
skill is going to be very interested in how it helps them make their fortune 
or other goal.  Whereas we expect to be drafted and forced to man machine 
guns, airplanes and ships that can bomb you 14 miles away, no wizard is 
going to go for that.  While I understand that there can be a "guild" aspect 
to magic, it is more fitting and "realistic" I think to make wizards a bit 
like Dr. Frankenstein - crazed power-hungry loners who have something they 
desperately want to achieve, and only later realize that they've "created a 
monster".

Gondor was very poorly mobilized for war, and on top of that the numerous 
different ways they were attacked by Sauron meant that few reinforcements 
were able to reach them.  Whatever was happening in Europe and the rest of 
the world in medieval times, by the Renaissance Europe was pulling away and 
by the "Age of Enlightenment" the process was escalating exponentially, so 
that by the 1700s tiny European forces were dominating massive Indian ones. 
This became even more so in the 1800s, and by WWI and WWII era no country 
except Japan was able to even attempt to take on a Western power.  And 
obviously, they should've stuck to just fighting the Dutch.  :)

Crosstime engineering and New Followers are references I don't know, sorry.
Bottom line, TFT is a story.  You can make up any reason, and have it be a 
good, historical reason that is very sound, why ANYTHING is the way that it 
is, and you don't even necessarily have to explain it to the players.  After 
all, unless they are followers of a powerful lord, they aren't going to know 
any more about anything than any other peasant.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jay Carlisle
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 2:49 PM
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: Re: (TFT) Jobs table: 100,000 simulated soldiers and farmers

On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, gem6868 wrote:
> yes, this is a historical example that would be repeated again in WWII.
However, no offense, but it is pretty much irrelevant to a fantasy RPG.

I get what your saying here (and great point about the sword-smith, like
Indigo's Pop) but I keep being concerned about magic.
1 in 50 apprentices and 1 in 300 wizards (possible anyway) with Jobs for
martial wizards suggests to me that things could ramp up rather quickly in a
"world" war situation perhaps.
Of course, instead of observation planes there'd be wizard scrying and
whatnot and so on but I think the root idea of mobilizing the population for
an effort like that has some merit even if magic is much more restricted.
I'm pretty sure Gondor was mobilized to the hilt there at the seige.
Also, Europe was in recovery from a number of nasty knockdowns.
Other places in the world were on an upswing.
I guess I read the Crosstime Engineer stuff too much...
Not disagreeing with you.
Just saying I'm almost as scared of magic as I am of New Followers.
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