Immediate vs. delayed gratification

[TippetsTX]

So here's a follow-up question for those few of you who are currently playing Legacy edition rules... are your players following the expected pattern of spending most of their initial XP on stat increases (immediate benefit) or are they saving XP for arguably more impactful but more costly talents, spells or lesser wishes?

And for demographic purposes, please state your session frequency, number of players, and whether you see any difference in the behavior of old vs. young players.

[larsdangly]

I've been running a party of 4 for about 3-4 months (maybe a dozen sessions), and so far the non-wizard PC's have been focused on stat rises, while the wizard rose to 35 points and then switched to an emphasis on staff Fatigue points

[amenditman]

I'm running a Friday night game online. One player is always present and 5 or so other drop in/out as they can.

Most of the players are very experienced TFT players/gms with many years more experience than I have.

I think that they are all pretty much spending points on those attribute increases at this point. But it is very early on, 3 or 4 sessions into it.

[ParadoxGames]

A similar question I have is if people who play wizards would advance several IQ levels without learning any new spells, in order to learn many high-level spells while meeting the 1 spell per IQ point limit?

[hcobb]

Originally Posted by ParadoxGames

A similar question I have is if people who play wizards would advance several IQ levels without learning any new spells, in order to learn many high-level spells while meeting the 1 spell per IQ point limit?

That does not apply in the new rules.

An IQ 10 wizard could over time learn every spell and talent of IQ 10 or less.

The average character on their 50th birthday should have 40 attributes and 13 skill points above their starting IQ.

So a wizard who starts at ST 8 DX 12 IQ 12 should wind up around ST 8 DX 12 IQ 20 with 12 talent+spells at IQ 12 or less and 13 more talents+spells at IQ 20 or less.

Just remember to use the NPC-only stat of "Mana" in order to not give away powerstones to the player characters. (There is no other justification for giving up skill points for Mana.)

[Skarg]

Originally Posted by hcobb

The average character on their 50th birthday should have 40 attributes and 13 skill points above their starting IQ.

Not if the average attribute point total is still 30, which the book still says it is.

It'd be pretty bizarre compared to the real world, too. All the professional athletes would be 50-year-olds...