Using metric in TFT - house rules

[hcobb]

Only problem is that converting back to metric means that your halfling wizard carries 10% fewer daggers!


A metric load of Hobbit:
Backpack 2kg
Belt pouch .2kg
Torch .5kg
Waterskin 1kg
2 days rations 1kg
Silver dagger staff .1kg
39 steel daggers 3.9kg
3 healing potions .3kg
one silver coin .01kg
total: 9.01kg, $1000
Assuming ST 5 that's no move penalty on land

[Axly Suregrip]

Originally Posted by hcobb

Only problem is that converting back to metric means that your halfling wizard carries 10% fewer daggers!


A metric load of Hobbit:
Backpack 2kg
Belt pouch .2kg
Torch .5kg
Waterskin 1kg
2 days rations 1kg
Silver dagger staff .1kg
39 steel daggers 3.9kg
3 healing potions .3kg
one silver coin .01kg
total: 9.01kg, $1000
Assuming ST 5 that's no move penalty on land

An off-topic note:
The above is clearly a wizard since it has a dagger-staff. So, wouldn't carrying 39 steel daggers interfere with her/his casting?

ITL 140, "A wizard (or anyone else attempting magic) must avoid having iron on or about his person. A wizard wearing ordinary iron or steel armor, or carrying an ordinary weapon, will suffer a -4 DX on any spell he attempts to cast."

[hcobb]

Originally Posted by Axly Suregrip

An off-topic note:
The above is clearly a wizard since it has a dagger-staff. So, wouldn't carrying 39 steel daggers interfere with her/his casting?

ITL 140, "A wizard (or anyone else attempting magic) must avoid having iron on or about his person. A wizard wearing ordinary iron or steel armor, or carrying an ordinary weapon, will suffer a -4 DX on any spell he attempts to cast."

Point is to start casting spells after the daggers are used up. In the meantime do Staff III zaps (without the Iron penalty of course) as needed.

[Ferretman]

Hmmmm.............I recall with our group, the issue of weight (pounds or kilos) never even came up.

I see the books themselves pretty much seem to reference imperial weights, so that's pretty much how I'll use them I guess.

Metric wouldn't really make sense to me anyway, since that system is derived originally from the size of the Earth, and of course Cidri isn't Earth.

Of course it really doesn't matter overmuch....I guess folks should use what they like!


Ferret

[TippetsTX]

Originally Posted by Ferretman

I see the books themselves pretty much seem to reference imperial weights, so that's pretty much how I'll use them I guess.

Metric wouldn't really make sense to me anyway, since that system is derived originally from the size of the Earth, and of course Cidri isn't Earth.

Technically, it was the new edition that switched to imperial, but the original rulebooks used the metric system. It's hard to teach some of us old dogs new tricks. ;)

And don't forget that everyone on Cidri originally came from Earth (many Earths).

[Ferretman]

Originally Posted by TippetsTX

Technically, it was the new edition that switched to imperial, but the original rulebooks used the metric system. It's hard to teach some of us old dogs new tricks. ;)

And don't forget that everyone on Cidri originally came from Earth (many Earths).

Oh agreed, though I felt the change was for the better going imperial. As I mentioned I'm pretty sure it never once came up one way or the other.

I would suspect that in a proper campaign, in addition to a multitude of languages, you'd have all kinds of measurements across the planet. I would see them standardizing to one single system within, say, a continent though. For ME, though, that would be way too much work to keep track of, so we'd just go with whatever standard we used (imperial or metric).


Ferret

[hcobb]

If everything was in metric then chemistry and engineering would be too easy for wizards to learn.

[EKB]

Originally Posted by hcobb

If everything was in metric then chemistry and engineering would be too easy for wizards to learn.

If anything I would have handwaved that in the opposite direction. The cold, rational, anti-magical metric system was instituted as a conspiracy by the Illuminati to keep those dratted wizards in check. Wizards (and alchemists) had to learn the imperial system as an obscure or even secret set of measurements necessary to make their spells and potions work.

So with the switch to imperial for everyday use, wizards will become even more powerful. They will be able to learn the various chemistry and engineering talents without paying double, and will ultimately take over the world. Just as the Secret Masters planned, in their counter-conspiracy against those dratted Illuminati.