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

[raito@raito.com]

>> In the view I use starting 32pt Figures are fresh out of high school
>> so to

All my beginning adult characters are 32 points whether played by a person
or not. I do not buy in to the '0 level' character stuff. One of the
things I dislike about (older) DND is that the PCs and NPCs literally do
not play by the same rules.

> I know this isn't reflected that well by the employment experience
> bonuses but I tend to assume that those would work differently for a
> non-PC and I also tend to tone those down for PCs... they are a little
> too much in the long run. I usually just reduce the rolls from once a
> week to once a month and multiply the salary by 4.
>
>> Assuming that human maximums are around 30 in a attribute (only
>> directly

I do not assume this. If you can muster the EP or job rolls or wishes or
whatever, bump your attributes as you please. The NPCs will do the same.

> I've never had a character like that (my games are slightly more
> mundane than the dark lord leading the army of minions...) but I could
> see it being the most powerful individual human around. Totally
> fantasy-- how many people do you know are the strongest (herculean, in
> fact, so pure mythology), most dexterous, and intelligent people in
> the entire world all at once, and to the point where they are the best
> in all categories that the world has ever seen?

I have NPCs who are so powerful that mucking with them in any serious way
would get you killed right now.

Combine 435 years with huge temporal power (they control not only the
largest city and army, but the trade route from the undeveloped world to
the civilized world), and Youth potions.

> Yeah, the job lists are clearly broken for basing the entire world
> around. Hence, I adjust them for PCs and almost entirely ignore them
> for NPCs.

I haven't found them to be a problem, with the caveat that you can't pop
in to a one-horse town and expect to find an employer for every sort of
job there is.

>> What's stopping a Figure with New Followers from questing for the
>> strongest
>> man in the world or similar?
>
> Nothing, I like the idea and have used it before... its just that
> those characters (the strongest or whatever) tend to be somewhat
> limited in other ways.... not ridiculously so, but he's not going to
> be a super genius too.

Around here, if he was actually the strongest, he'd have a bunchof
temporal power. Just ebcause he's an NPC doesn't eman that he's
automatically going tobe charmed by you and follow you around. Otherwise,
New Followers is really unbalancing. 'Hey, Mr. King of the richest nation.
Come here!'

It still would make for a fun adventure.

> Anyway. Medieval-ish. Ever went to a museum and stood by a suit of
> armor? Knights were very short.

Not exactly true according to the research I've read. Some were, of
course, but the average wasn't so far below modern times (at least until
the last half of the 20th century in the western world). The Knights and
nobles in general had pretty decent diets, because they were rich.

As for those upper attribute characters, job rolls are a much better way
to gain points than by using EP.

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com
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