05-08-2019, 12:59 PM | #33 | ||
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Modern Heros
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Hcobb's ST 15 was him as usual extrapolating from the letter of the rules, and using a reference to a real-world 152 pound load. To which I would say: * ITL itself points out that its system is a baseline, not to let its suggestions lead you to results you feel/know are wrong, and that it matters how you carry stuff. * The ITL weights themselves do not map well to real-world weights in many cases, for example that 15-pound sword you mentioned. * Seems to me the solution to the encumbrance issue would not be to give every soldier ST 15, but to develop a more sophisticated encumbrance system, and/or better weight values. Maybe you need ST 15 to carry a 150-pound weight around in your arms, but loaded properly with a well-designed pack so the weight is balanced and largely born by your skeleton, not so much. Quote:
I can see the logic of that. However that's kind of like defining modern Americans as being a race with min IQ 10, or with an advantage or talent that effectively gives them +2-3 IQ over medieval humans... which is a different context than I was thinking of. I was wanting to keep the usual TFT scale where 10 is average and so a fairly large number of people are IQ 8-9, and I don't think a large portion of the population can't be trained to use a modern rifle, hence my original questioning of a min IQ 11 guns talent. |
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