(TFT) TFT: Bowyer, Slings, Handicaps, & Crazy Egor's

["Dave Seagraves" <dseagraves@austin.rr.com>]

Gadda, Charles A writes . . .

>Another suggestion: the sling talent should mention the fact that knowing
it
>allows you to build slings as well (they are fairly simple to make). Bows
>should probably have a separate "Boyer/Fletcher" type of skill, as below,
>for building (it is an involved art - even simple one piece or "self" bows
>require a surprising attention to detail and there are alot of subtlties to
>consider)

   I like both of these ideas.  I'll add sling construction to the Sling
skill, and your Bowyer skill is good too, but I think the IQ should be
raised to at least 10 -- I think bow making takes more brains than average,
perhaps more than Armourer.  I suggest making Bowyer IQ 10 and Master Bowyer
IQ 12.
   (If you want to get a little silly, make this the prerequisite of Master
Bowyer: "Must have had a great-grandfather who was also a master bow maker."
I heard Japanese bowyers make their bows from wood that had been cured and
stored by their great-grandfather decades ago, and they in turn do the same
for /their/ future great-grandson!)
   Crossbows are made using the Master Mechanician talent.
   I like Flintknapping as well.


Grabowski writes . . .

>I'm surprised that no one ever thought of this before; and how about staff
>sling.  What kind of damage?

   Rick Smith created an assortment of weapons (including staff slings)
which are on Ty Beard's web site . . .

http://www.reese.org/tft/newwpn.htm

>   The concepts of disadvantages in TFT came from two Space Gamer Articles.
>Forrest Johnson wrote the first article, Handicapped Characters in TFT in
>Space Gamer #5, and there was a second article in Space Gamer # 57 by Ralph
>Sizer, appropriately titled "More Handicaps in TFT".  They were created, as
>Forrest puts it, to make a character more interesting at the same time
>making the character more attractive to create.   In return for taking a
>handicap you were given extra points to use in order to create your
>character.

   This is a combined random table I made for those two Handicaps articles.
Sorry it doesn't look pretty in this non-monospace font . . .

Roll   Points   Handicap
  9 4 Moronic
10 4 Pacifist
11 4 Butterfingers
12 4 Claustrophobia
13 3 One-Armed
14 3 One-Track Mind
15 3 Choleric
16 3 Cowardly
17 3 Neurotic
18 3 Old (Age 50)
19 3 Narcolepsy
20 2 Alcoholic
21 2 Acrophobia
22 2 Cuteness
23 2 Nearsighted
24 2 Neurotic
25 2 Laziness
26 2 Old (Age 40)
27 1 Miserly
28 1 Hard of Hearing
29 1 Neurotic
30-32 Character has one more handicap
33 1 Old (Age 30)
34 1 Fat (4 encumbrance)
35 1 Dyslexia
36 1 Homosexual
37 1 Gullible
38 2 Fat (8 encumbrance)
39 2 Reputation
40 2 Migraines
41 2 Lame
42 2 Odious
43 2 Over-Sexed
44 2 Eunuch
45 3 Fat (12 encumbrance)
46 3 Squeamishness
47 3 Rube Goldberg Mind
48 3 Kleptomaniac
49 3 Asthma
50 3 One-Legged
51 4 Stuttering
52 4 Hemophiliac
53 4 Rheumatic Fever
54 4 Blind

   Last week I order three TFT items from Crazy Egor's, and yesterday they
arrived.  I paid $33.60 for Death Test 1, Death Test 2, and Security
Station -- not too bad.

Dave Seagraves
Seagraves Design Bureau   dseagraves@austin.rr.com   1 (512) 255-2760
"I'll give you a medal, Muttley!"


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