Tech Familiarity instead of Tech Level

maximara · 05-10-2019, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

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Originally Posted by dataweaver

You're right. That's why it's a house rule. You can argue that it's a bad house rule; but not by saying that it works differently than the official rules: the whole point of a house rule is to work differently than the official rules.

Instead of having different TLs, have different divergent TLs, as the penalties would be the equivalent.

This brings up a key point - why create such a house rule in the first place when there already existing standard rules that address the issue and solve the "problem" the house rule was to "fix" in the first place?

As I said before TL(whatever)/4-5 (Medicine 3-4) solves this issue with players not having to worry about what the Imperial, Brettonian, Nordic, or Skaven tech level is. If they have regularly seen/used it then they are at no penalty to use it. Now repairing it might be an issue but odds are they will simply have the item repaired by the local blacksmith who likely has picked up the needed variations of the TL skills.

TL;DR - the house rule is a solution in search of a problem that for all practical purposes doesn't exist.