Re: (TFT) Man To Man & GURPS - was Re: (TFT) The return of Ogre - Rick did something silly.

[De Des <denisdesharnais@gmail.com>]

I agree that the focus in any RPG - ideally - starts to shift to "estate
building" when characters get super-sized.  Making adventures more
mission-based or puzzle-oriented rather than dungeon-crawl helped too.  One
of my favorite adventures involved an overland tramp that turned into a
"first contact" type scenario with a race of winged people.  My brother was
GM, and free-styled most of it.  It helps avoid the "hobgoblin holocaust"
effect.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2008/03/orc_holocaust.html


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:19 PM, <raito@raito.com> wrote:

> > In most of my old games we got around this by being really stingy with XP
> > and making the XP->DX/ST/IQ conversion more expensive so that things
> never
> > got too unbalanced.  A couple of early games in my group got absurd after
> > a
> > while, and we started from scratch at one point because it just wasn't
> > challenging.
>
> And I'm not completely convinced that TFT as a game system breaks down at
> high levels.
> Yes, the stat number start breaking, and combat becomes dull. So what to
> do? How about actually roleplaying for temporal power? Why? Because kings,
> princes, and other power brokers get a lot more stuff than adventurers
> looting yet another ogre's treasure stash. And unless you're really,
> really, ultra-rich and can count on the people working for you, the aging
> rules will catch up eventually.
>
> Neil Gilmore
> raito@raito.com
>
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