http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/ Tekumel: EPT (Guardians of Order) 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. Fri, 15 May 2009 11:29:52 GMT Joseph M. Saul http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/823 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/823 ... Again, that was a deliberate design decision. We wanted them to be of lower value. -- Joe Fri, 15 May 2009 11:22:26 GMT Stephen C Nanny http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/822 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/822 Most of my players took multiple defects especially Debts of Honour at maximum. Some of the defects have matching attributes, e.g., younger vs older, low Fri, 15 May 2009 03:33:35 GMT Joseph M. Saul http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/821 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/821 ... It was a design decision on our part to avoid encouraging the GURPS-style character builds where the majority of character points are paid for with a Fri, 15 May 2009 03:24:33 GMT mark_a_bee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/820 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/820 Hi Mark, I'll talk to them. I'm thinking that the complaint may be more about the low benefits (only 1 or 2 points) as opposed to the high cost of the Fri, 15 May 2009 03:24:33 GMT David http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/819 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/819 Hi! I don't know if there aren't enough defects, but the defects have always seemed undervalued (at least to me). For example, taking a defect of being blind Tue, 12 May 2009 20:02:39 GMT Mark Eggert http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/818 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/818 Hello Mark, I must say this is the first time I've heard someone say there is a lack of Defects in T:EPT. My players have made the opposite remark about both Tue, 12 May 2009 01:17:03 GMT mark_a_bee http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/817 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/tekumelrpg/message/817 I don't know about others but some of my players have been complaining about the lack of Defects in Tekumel:Empire of the Petal Throne. After reviewing them, I