Re: (TFT) using exp to improve talents.

[Jeffrey Vandine <jlv61560@yahoo.com>]

You do have an enormous number of talents -- if you wanted to do something 
like that you would definitely need to simplify them quite a bit.  How
ever, the simplest way to do this is probably impose a three-, four-, or fi
ve-level limit on talents, the first level of which would simply move you f
rom 4 dice versus the relevant characteristic (ST, DX, or IQ) to three dice
 versus the relevant level, and the second, third, etc level would add +1 t
o adjust the relevant characteristic you were rolling against (e.g., your I
Q would be "adjusted" just like your DX is in the normal rules for various 
things), and if you like the DCG idea, then with combat skills you can choo
se to adjust "skill" to hit OR to adjust damage inflicted if and when you d
o hit.
At any rate, it'sactually pretty simple thanks to the way Steve Jackson str
uctured the thing in the first place!  ;-)

      From: Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>
 To: tft@brainiac.com 
 Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:32 PM
 Subject: (TFT) using exp to improve talents.
   
Hi Jeffrey 
    Something that would make it hard for TFT to adapt to Dark Ci
ty's 
Game system is that all of the talents have to have a simple way to
be version 1, 2, 3..  etc.

  Many TFT talents do not work that way.  (I shudder to think of 
how
long it would take to rewrite all of my talents.)

  But I do like the idea.

  Most modern rpg use this system, Firefly (which I enjoy) does this.

  Warm regards, Rick.

On 2015-09-01, at 1:00 PM, Jeffrey Vandine wrote:

> I really liked the Dark City Games method of using experience to buy skil
ls
> , spells or attributes, so have pretty much stuck with that since I first
 r
> an across it a few years back.  And since using their system also gi
ve
> s "levels" to skills or spells, that means the whole resource management 
is
> sue of how to spend XP becomes much more complex and satisfying to them (
as
> well as allowing much more finely tuned characters).  You can downlo
a
> d the rules from the DCG web site for free, and they are also included at
 t
> he front of every DCG microquest.
> 
>      From: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE>
> To: tft@brainiac.com 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:55 AM
> Subject: (TFT) XP for gold
> 
> 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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