http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/ Tekumel: EPT (Guardians of Order) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:12:14 GMT Joseph M. Saul http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/838 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/838 Apologies for some of these messages coming in out of sequence. The list is moderated, the email address I've been using for moderation is under heavy fire Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:03:51 GMT Bruce Hubbell http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/837 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/837 The character sheet you're looking at sounds like it is for the tri-stat derived Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne from Guardians of Order. A different game Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:03:00 GMT Brett Slocum http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/836 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/836 Those are the basic talents for <a href=" Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:55:42 GMT Neil Smith http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/835 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/835 ... Those are the statistics used in the Tri-Stat based game, 'Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne' (T:EPT), released in 2005. ... Psyche is psychic ability. Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:45:17 GMT Neil Smith (Yahoo) http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/834 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/834 (Resending as Yahoo seems to have eaten my original post.) ... Those are the statistics used in the Tri-Stat based game, 'Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne' Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:14:13 GMT Mark Eggert http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/833 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/833 The original talents/attributes made their first change when Swords and Glory (2nd generation of rules for RPG gaming on Tekumel) came out in the 1980's. These Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:52:01 GMT kmmc56 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/832 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/832 I originally started RPGing with EPT back in the mid 70s when the basic talents were: Strength, Intelligence, Constitution, Psychic Ability, Dexterity, and Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:34:50 GMT auvqel http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/831 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/831 A friend of mine who plays in my EPT game has been playing the Dryad character in Sacred 2 recently. He has discovered that someone on the design staff for Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:13:16 GMT badger2305 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/830 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/830 Attend the words of this Humble Servant of the God-Emperor of the Mighty and Beauteous Empire of the Tsolyanu! Let all who hear rejoice in the beneficence of Mon, 18 May 2009 12:20:15 GMT einsteinjr1 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/829 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/829 I tend to agree with Joe. Defects should be a way for their players to add depth to their character, and I feel the defect costs in T:EPT encourage this. And Sat, 16 May 2009 03:55:59 GMT Howard http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/828 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/828 seems like the players have been put int a different game level than they would like. The simple answer is to bump up one from low fantasy to medium, or high. Sat, 16 May 2009 01:00:10 GMT Joseph M. Saul http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/827 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/827 ... That would be a completely legitimate design decision, it just isn't the way we decided to go. One of the things we didn't want to do (you could look at Sat, 16 May 2009 00:54:03 GMT David http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/826 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/826 Hi! Ah. I had actually been creating characters in the same way as in GURPS, and wasn't very satsified, so your explanation that it isn't supposed to work Sat, 16 May 2009 00:52:58 GMT Brett Slocum http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/825 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/825 I personally think that most of those paired Defects/Attributes should be of the same value, positive and negative. I would personally reduce the cost of the Sat, 16 May 2009 00:52:38 GMT mark_a_bee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/824 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/824 Good discussion. I think I understand why that decision was made coming from GURPS as I did. I'm not quite sure how to approach this with my players though.