<< That this is met to be more backstory stuff and that player characters
can, and should, do whatever is FUN. >>
In other words, for at least some players (including myself), stuff that doesn't involve combat. Combat is, for me, boring, and I'm really pleased to see a game that gives proper emphasis to the alternatives, while still allowing the combat stuff for the majority of players who, like you, want that sort of thing.
<<As to you people who keep pushing this idea that combat is not central to
RPGs, give it up. Never was true, isn't true now, never will be true. >>
So I should be bored, by being forced to play characters that don't interest me? Surely that isn't what you mean?
<<Sure, it is not the ONLY thing that makes RPGs great, but it is always
important enough that a character that cannot participate in it will usually
be a bore to play in a long campaign. >>
Absolutely not the case in my experience. Besides which, there are female characters who can get involved in action even in TR, although its true there will be many more in Storm Tribe. And, if combat's the main thing you're after, what's to stop you playing a male character? If there aren't any character types in TR that you'd enjoy playing that's unfortunate, but what I object to is the claim that there aren't any which are even playable.
What will be important, IMO, is to see how non-combatant characters (i.e. those that I personally find interesting to play) will be catered for in the scenario books, such as Sartar Rising. It would indeed, be pointless to allow all these interesting non-combat options, especially with one of them as one of only two default PCs, and then give them nothing to do in the published scenarios. Fortunately, I'm confident Issaries won't do that.
You may well argue that my tastes are in a minority, but that simply isn't relevant IMO. People who don't share my tastes can still find plenty of character types to play in TR, even if most of them are blokes. And I refuse to be disappointed just because somebody's written a book about the kind of gaming I enjoy :-)
Trotsky
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