Re: (TFT) XP for gold

["David O. Miller" <davidomiller@verizon.net>]

Guys and Gals,

What's all this talk about XP? Hell, TFT characters in my games never 
lived long enough to advance. In fact we always started them higher up 
the attribute level, and they still died in droves. To me the real 
challenge in a TFT game is to actually be one of the few characters that 
lives through an adventure. To me that's the real accomplishment, and 
one to be proud of!

It's just the nature of TFT, it's a brutal game system. Death can come 
quickly and easily from anywhere, regardless of how many attribute 
points you have. And in all honesty that's really why I love the game 
system so much. I always tell new players not to get too attached to a 
character, they're a dime a dozen. In fact, you'd be better off bringing 
a couple of characters along on an adventure. None of this silly "only 
play one character at a time" nonsense. You can have an important 
character, along with his or her support staff. If your main guy dies at 
the hand of the little goblin who rolled triple damage then one of his 
surviving pages can rise to the challenge and continue the quest, with 
continuity intact.

If I wanted character advancement and development I'd go play D&D. 
Nobody ever dies in that game, at least as far as I understand it.

Forget all this book keeping of XPs. I'm not playing "Game of 
Accounting". Whomever survives an adventure gets an attribute point. 
How's that for ease of play?
__________________________________________ 
David O. Miller
www.davidomiller.com




On Sep 1, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>  I'm not sure what you are asking, exactly.  In D&D for a long time, 
people
> got exp for each gold piece they gained.  TFT has never had that 
dynamic.
> If you are asking, has anyone tried out that rule as a house, rule, 
then I
> have not, and have not heard of any other campaigns that has.
> 
>  Warm regards,  Rick.
> 
> 
> On 2015-09-01, at 6:55 AM, Andreas Davour wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Excuse me if this has been beaten to death many times before, as I'm 
new to the list. I did a quick search of the archives, and did not find 
any matches.
>> 
>> So, since the question came up about how to reach IQ 35, I started to 
think about XP.
>> 
>> What kind of XP schemes are people using? Have anyone tried the 
Arnesonian way of XP for gold (i.e. finding and squandering)?
>> 
>> -andreas
>> 
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