Re: (TFT) Re: Quickness/IQ and parry system

[Pasha and or Rick Smith <pnrsmith@istar.ca>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: stan rydzewski <srydzews@ix.netcom.com>
>To: tft@brainiac.com <tft@brainiac.com>
>Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 2:37 PM
>Subject: Re: (TFT) TFT: Quickness and IQ
>
>
>>Dave Seagraves wrote:
>>>
>>> Adjusted IQ
>>>  Attribute points can now be spent to increase the IQ points a
>>> character can spend to learn talents and spells.  It costs one
>>> attribute point (which isn?t otherwise spent on ST, DX, or IQ)
>>> to increase a character?s ?adjIQ? by two.   [snip]
>>
>>I think this sort of thing is a very good idea; basically a wider
>>knowledge rather than a deeper one.  We use something similar, but
>>not so elegant - allowing characters to buy extra talent "slots"
>>for XP.
>>
>>Have you considered extending this concept to ST?  You could
>>allow people to buy "adjST" at a similar rate, with the adjST
>>being used as hit points/fatigue.  It's nice to be able to have
>>a powerful mage who isn't a hulking tower of ST.
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------
>>Stan - new guy on the list
...

>The group I ran in the 80s used a modified six characteristic system that
>was found in a Different Worlds magazine...

...
>On parrying, great idea Chris it makes the defender less passive.  How do
>you do Defend/Dodge?  Does it stay the same for the attacker, rolling 4d6
>against the defender.  Also what if their is more than one attacker?  Do you
>allow the defender to parry one attack with weapon and one with the shield?
>How do other GM's handle the defense of one character being attacked by
>multiple attackers?
>
>Yours in Cidri
>Justin

	The above system sounds a lot like my superscript system, 
you might look it up in the archives to see how I handled the problem.

	One thing I've done is allowed people to take talents to make 
them harder to hit (shields in particular can give the enemy negative 
modifiers to DX, and the fact that some thing can always sneak up 
behind the PC where the shield does not protect makes a nice ballance 
to it.

	All of these talents require the player to say they are using
them (usually at some cost to their DX or legal actions) so I don't have
to remember who has what combination of talents.  

	I've tried MANY different variations on parrying and none 
were one that I really liked.  Let me throw an idea out here for the list to 
think over,  this has NEVER been tried out.  A talent or skill that is 
very difficult for people to learn that requires an OK IQ and high DX
means that it takes an enemy longer than 5 seconds to be allowed a 
legal attack on you.  While this defense is up, you could attack HIM
but at -6 DX or something.

	This buys you time,  means that if you are good, the enemy
can still get a hit (many parrying schemes I've seen allow very good
figures to avoid being hit by lower level figures altogether), and reduces
the number of die rolls rather than increasing them.

	Thanks for the ideas.

	Rick


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