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

On May 19, 2012, at 11:18 AM, raito@raito.com wrote:


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.


Yep.



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. 

Sure.



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, there are magic ways to have characters who are, well, magical. Not what I'd consider "normal human maximum" though. More like "god in the greek sense." 


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.
Good point, its just that an analysis we did awhile ago showed that an average NPC would be in the high 50's (or maybe even 60's...) by the time he was getting old, and the aging rules didn't really kick in fast enough to bring them down... 


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.
True, as magic can make you strong, it might not work quite the way I described. I do play fairly mundane settings, however, so for me this rarely comes up... sounds like your world has a lot of magic going on, so things play out a bit differently. 


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.
I've actually read the opposite... nobles didn't get enough veggies (peasant food) and pretty much ate meat and fish.... Resulting in nobility being a bit shorter than average back then.
But the point is ultimately the same... people were smaller back then. Not a huge amount, but there are a few inches between the averages.
As for those upper attribute characters, job rolls are a much better way 
to gain points than by using EP.
Which is why I feel that the job rolls can't work the way they do in the long run. 

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com
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