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Skarg · 08-09-2018, 06:28 PM

It doesn't seem all that odd to me, especially amongst my more experienced role-players. Many wizards already tend to try to avoid direct enemy contact, and I've seen many PCs (even ones who were also fighters) want to get into non-combat and even mostly-non-adventure pursuits, and/or some mix of both.

Really it comes down to finding common subjects that all the players are interested in. Of course, if it doesn't involve fighting or spellcasting, or adventuring much at all, there may not be a whole lot of rule support for it, but if players mainly want roleplaying situations with a realistic framework for combat and magic when/if it's needed, TFT is excellent for that because its rules are designed to give reasonable/logical expected sorts of results, and are easy to learn and use.

08-09-2018, 06:28 PM	#4
Skarg Join Date: May 2015	Re: Non-combat characters It doesn't seem all that odd to me, especially amongst my more experienced role-players. Many wizards already tend to try to avoid direct enemy contact, and I've seen many PCs (even ones who were also fighters) want to get into non-combat and even mostly-non-adventure pursuits, and/or some mix of both. Really it comes down to finding common subjects that all the players are interested in. Of course, if it doesn't involve fighting or spellcasting, or adventuring much at all, there may not be a whole lot of rule support for it, but if players mainly want roleplaying situations with a realistic framework for combat and magic when/if it's needed, TFT is excellent for that because its rules are designed to give reasonable/logical expected sorts of results, and are easy to learn and use.