Re: (TFT) what Dark city modules have you played? Im thinking of getting

[Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Joel BoardgameRpger wrote:

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> Sewers is suggested at *ADVANCED: 38 point characters*
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???
As I recall DCG has its own system that translates into TFT simply.
So I'm not trying to get into that directly but I am a bit curious as to
how folks view the ideas of attribute points and levels in TFT.

In the view I use starting 32pt Figures are fresh out of high school so to
speak, a bit more talented than Joe Average at 30pts but not prodigy's.
Were they american football players they would be well recruited standouts
on their high school teams but redshirt recruits at top level university
programs.
College level standouts move into the 40 to 60ish attribute points level
which is a rough average at the professional level.
Assuming that human maximums are around 30 in a attribute (only directly
suggested for ST but not too big a leap perhaps) then the statistical
maximum for humans is approaching 100 in a 'realistic' campaign.
Sure the attribute points get expensive in experience points, something
like 2.5 million exp per from 95 to 100 I think, but at that level of
attribute points it's not unimaginable to see situations where a Figure
might muster enough to get some mighty big chunks of exp quickly.
I'm thinking of the Dark Lord leading a small army of apprentices with Aid
and a mess of ST batteries mustering a nuke-like Fireball on a city.
And of course 6500 exp gets a Figure to 29 in an attribute at minimum and
46 total points is still under 10,000 exp.
There also seems to be an assumption that Joe Average pretty much stays
static at 30 pts over the course of their lives even though the Job Lists
suggest otherwise for at least some Joe's.
I also think about stuff like The Princess Bride or The Bridge of Birds
where the concept of the best in the world at something is strongly
featured in areas of the overall story often as driving reasons to quest.
What's stopping a Figure with New Followers from questing for the strongest
man in the world or similar?
Another thought, if 30pts is considered an average in a medieval (ish)
setting what might the average be for a modern "first world" Joe?
I consider that statistical maximums are pretty much inevitable at some
point in a campaign game.
This doesn't mean that there's a bunch of Figures on the high end of the
statistical bell and in a setup with a strong fixed class society where 80
or 90 percent of the total population are peasants the few near the
maximums are most likely peasants who may never be considered for
knighthood or otherwise excluded from most consideration but even then an
occasional Faraday or Ramanujan trickles through the cracks.
Or maybe I'm completely off base...
It's something like 25 million exp to get to 100 attribute points.
At 20 exp per Joe Average it's around one and a quarter million Joe's to
max a Figure statistically.
Rome was probably near that population in her height and perhaps a few
other ancient cities were knocking on that door population wise.
Nothing says the Dark Lord gets exp for nuking a city but nothing says he
wouldn't get anything for it either.
Oddness abounds...

"Harrison tore the straps of his handicap harness like wet tissue paper,
tore straps guaranteed to support five thousand pounds."
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