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Old 10-20-2019, 08:03 PM   #7
David L Pulver
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Default Re: How important are our "tweaks"

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Originally Posted by JimmyPlenty View Post
Like most of you, I dig through the rules and come up with questions, theories, rule ideas and such.

But truly, for all the effort, how many players would even notice our changes if we just left things as is? I know my players wouldn't generally notice a dang thing unless I pointed it out.
As Chris says, I think rule tweeking is often more for the GM than the casual player. The GM has to be motivated to "beleive" in the way things work.

That said, when I tweek TFT so that you started with (IQ-6) x 3 "IQ points" worth of talents, halved the MA so characters didn't run off the maps all the time, and added a GURPS-style defense roll at (DX/2) + 3, it did seem to attract at least some comment from the players, though that was in the previous edition, not the present one...
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