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Old 06-26-2018, 01:38 PM   #21
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Well, the social interaction rules in ITL were always a bit on the vague side. I assumed that was because the players were expected to role-play the situation; but I honestly think that having a bit more structure would make role-playing easier for everyone, especially the GM, who can thus avoid falling into the trap of always having NPCs react in similar fashions...

You could think of it as a "cue" for your acting improv, rather than as "roll-playing."
Exactly!

I think the reason there were no social rules was that the field of role playing games was embryonic and it wasn't quite finished spawning out of miniatures wargames. I think Liz Danforth said that TFT was only the third RPG to come out?

There's been a huge amount of innovation since then!
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Old 08-29-2018, 08:56 PM   #22
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Exactly. I have two examples of playing out social conflicts in my opposed roll doc. The technique I use isn't the only way to run them but it's been fun for us for the past 10 years or so I've been doing social conflicts this way.
From Zot https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...h.lhjz6j8m40oz

"When to Use Contests and Opposed Rolls
Besides actual contests in the story, the most appropriate time to use opposed rolls, contests, or tasks, is when the characters want to produce a different outcome than they currently have without using violence, like bargaining for a better price, trying to get past a bureaucrat, trying to convince someone of something, interrogation, etc."

Will TFT be adopting an Opposed Challenge type rule? If not Zot's, some in house type?

Because of the limited amount of space in ITL and the time it would takes to rule test, not all the needed talents will end up in Legacy. It might be useful to handle situations where a talent hasn't been created yet or a situation that is awkward to resolve using the those absent rules.

With the proscription on New Talents in Limited Publishing License stuff, this might be a way for those supplement designers to still use sanctioned rule without creating LPL conflict.
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Old 08-30-2018, 08:43 PM   #23
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Will TFT be adopting an Opposed Challenge type rule? If not Zot's, some in house type?
Ah, found it. Steve made one.

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=158390
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