Alternate approach for Languages

Skarg · 01-31-2019, 11:29 AM

I don't follow what the issue is with the existing system that this aims to solve?

Also, from a modeling perspective, I don't understand why IQ would be used as a measure of how many languages a person can learn. After all, young children tend to be good at learning languages, and real people can be inexperienced and not very bright and still no several languages. It seems to me it really takes opportunity (and as something learned as an adult, aptitude, attitude, interest and time).

Starting Talent points in TFT seem to me to reflect opportunity and aptitude well enough, though I think they could be decoupled from IQ if someone were willing to make the point system a little more complex.

i.e. I think some talents probably would make sense to decouple from IQ in some way, perhaps just by offering them at character creation through some new trade-off mechanic other than buying IQ and spending mIQ points. I'm thinking of talents that don't seem to me to be conventionally learned (by real people), such as Acute Hearing, Alertness, Sex Appeal, Charisma, and in some cases, languages.

What the specific mechanic would be could vary, though.

01-31-2019, 11:29 AM	#9
Skarg Join Date: May 2015	Re: Alternate approach for Languages I don't follow what the issue is with the existing system that this aims to solve? Also, from a modeling perspective, I don't understand why IQ would be used as a measure of how many languages a person can learn. After all, young children tend to be good at learning languages, and real people can be inexperienced and not very bright and still no several languages. It seems to me it really takes opportunity (and as something learned as an adult, aptitude, attitude, interest and time). Starting Talent points in TFT seem to me to reflect opportunity and aptitude well enough, though I think they could be decoupled from IQ if someone were willing to make the point system a little more complex. i.e. I think some talents probably would make sense to decouple from IQ in some way, perhaps just by offering them at character creation through some new trade-off mechanic other than buying IQ and spending mIQ points. I'm thinking of talents that don't seem to me to be conventionally learned (by real people), such as Acute Hearing, Alertness, Sex Appeal, Charisma, and in some cases, languages. What the specific mechanic would be could vary, though.