01-17-2019, 02:39 PM | #22 |
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Re: Do Skeletons decay?
That goes back to GM control. If someone starts abusing the rules, and the players/GM involved feel that it's unfair or disruptive, you fix it so they can't.
I actually don't want the rules to this game to read like SPI's rules for Campaign for North Africa. Nor do I think that any game designer can possibly close every loophole that someone decides to exploit. |
01-17-2019, 04:43 PM | #23 | |
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Re: Do Skeletons decay?
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01-18-2019, 05:36 AM | #25 | |
I do stuff and things.
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As a GM, I don't care about what the "rules" have to say. If I want a necromancer to control an army of undead, that necromancer is gonna have an army.
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01-18-2019, 08:24 AM | #26 |
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Re: Do Skeletons decay?
I too feel that the GM is the final arbiter as to what is allowed and what is not. As long as their judgments are applied consistently, the game world is fair to all.
Honestly, this admittedly picayune question wouldn't even matter to me if I weren't working on a supplement that includes zombies and skeletons. I don't wish to run afoul of the rules in that regard. But in all likelyhood I'll just leave it unspoken, as the ITL rules do, and relegate the decision to the GMs as well. |
01-18-2019, 08:49 AM | #27 |
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Re: Do Skeletons decay?
I hadn't really thought about this one much, but the 'game balance' argument catches my attention - though perhaps not in the way intended. I like the idea of a zombie or skeleton army (either with an NPC or PC at its head). It's easy to imagine how this happens in D+D but I can't see how you could manage it in TFT unless you permit more-or-less immortal skeletons
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01-18-2019, 09:50 AM | #28 | |
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Each enchanter and three apprentices produces a zombie ring each month so with only ten enchanters the Dark Lord has an army of 1200 Skeletons of 100 ST each after the first decade that all get wiped out by the first petard.
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01-18-2019, 10:19 AM | #29 |
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Re: Do Skeletons decay?
I'm really starting to dislike the 'insta-zombie' spell as written.
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01-18-2019, 10:48 AM | #30 | |
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There are many better things to do with your 1200 enchanter-team-months of work, and not many zombies (let alone skeletons) who are worth putting a zombie ring on, even if there was an army's worth of them for sale and you had the cash. Except, maybe, if you go nuts exploiting the unspecified maximum ST of a zombie, and you find a corpse who had really high DX in life. |
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