Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 15:35:21 +0930 (CST)
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		Traveller's Alternative Force System (TAFS)
		===========================================

CONTENTS:
1.0			Force Attributes.
2.0			Force Skills.
2.1				Fortitude Skills.
2.2				Grace Skills.
3.0			Character Creation.
4.0			Force Powers.


1.0	FORCE ATTRIBUTES:

	In TAFS I have implemented Force attributes which I always thought were
missing from WEG's Force rules.  There are 2 Force attributes, Fortitude and
Grace.  There are usually no racial maximums for Force attributes.
	A character which has already learned one of the origional WEG Force
skills: control, sense, and alter, may not develop a TAFS attribute, just as
a character with a TAFS attribute may not develop WEG Force skills.  A force
sensitive character may develop a force attribute by spending 20 CP and
training for 10 weeks.  They then gain the attribute at 1D.  Force attributes
may be improved by spending 5 times the number of whole dice they currently
have for the attribute, and training for 2 weeks for an attribute up to 4D,
5 weeks for an attribute up to 7D, and 3 months for attributes over 7D.  If no
teacher is available, then training time is doubled.

Fortitude
and Grace are summarised below.

Fortitude:	Represents character's ability to draw upon the Force.  It
		covers two Force skills, Channeling and Discipline.
Grace:		Represents character's ability to mold the Force to do as he,
		she or it wishes.  Grace covers three Force skills, Finesse,
		Ingenuity, and Melding.
		

2.0	FORCE SKILLS:

	Force skills in TAFS may be improved as per the same rules for
improving normal WEG Force skills.

2.1	Fortitude skills:
	=================

	Channeling -		Character's skill at drawing the Force through
			him to power Force powers.  "Feel the Force flow though
			you."

	Discipline -		Character's skill at subconsciously maintaining
			Force powers, without incurring a penalty to actions.
			Also, when powers are maintained in this way, they do
			not drop if the character is stunned or worse.
				The character can maintain up to the square
			root of the number of whole dice they have in
			Discipline.  However, these powers must first have been
			melded, and only powers which can be kept 'up' may be
			used in this way.
				To maintain Force powers with their
			subconsious, the Force user must:
			1.	Meld all powers to operate subconsiously.
			2.	Use their Discipline skill to transfer the
			melded powers to their subconsious mind.  The
			difficulty for this action is one less than that for
			the most difficult power melded, except that it may not
			be lower than easy.

2.2	Grace skills:
	=============

	Finesse -		Character's skill at manipulating the Force to
			activate and consiously maintain Force powers.
				To activate a Force power, the Force user must:
			1.	Draw upon the Force using their Channeling
			skill.
			2.	Activate the Force power using their Finesse
			skill.
				This normally requires 2 rounds to perform
			without penalty, unless a Grace check is made to snap-
			activate.
				If you wish to power and activate a Force power
			in one round, you would normally receive -1D penalty,
			for using more than one skill in a round, however, by
			making a Grace check to snap-activate a power, this
			process is combined into one action (even though you
			must still roll both skills).  You may snap activate
			more than one power in a round, only one Grace check is
			made for all of them.  Its difficulty is:
			* Moderate + 2 per Force power snap-activated.
			If the Grace check fails, the powers may be activated
			through normal multiple action rules.

	Ingenuity -		Character's ability to engineer a new or
			unlearnt power.
				This skill allows only to produce 'pure'
			effects, i.e. no effects which would cover more than
			one normal Force power description.  Any Finesse rolls
			made for this power are at one higher difficulty level
			than they would normally be for a power of this type,
			and Channeling rolls must be made at -1D.
				To engineer a power using this skill, the Force
			user must roll the difficulty that would normally be
			required for the Finesse roll for this power, if the
			Force user knew the power.  Once a successful Ingenuity
			roll has been made, the power may be used until a Grace
			check is failed.
				Grace checks must be made for this power at the
			following intervals after the ingenuity roll was made:
			1 minute, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours, 1 day, and each
			successive day.  The difficulty of the Grace check
			starts at easy for 1 minute then increases one level
			for each time period.  Once the Grace check fails, the
			power has been effectively forgotten, and a new
			Ingenuity roll must be	made if the Force user wishes
			to use the power again.  (Or they could gain the power
			through expenditure of character points, as you would
			normally do.)
				If the Force user spends additional time (above
			the minimum 1 round required for the skill) in
			concentration, to engineer a Force power, then they
			receive a bonus to their Ingenuity roll as follows:
			* +1D	for a minute in concentration.
			* +2D	for 10 minutes in concentration.
			* +3D	for an hour in concentration.
			These bonuses are non-cumulative.

	Melding -		Skill at combining the effects of 2 or more
			powers into a new power which gives the benefit of all
			powers.
				This skill can only be used to combine the
			effects of 'pure' powers, i.e. you cannot meld a power
			to a power that has already been melded.
				To meld powers, the Force user must:
			1.	Activate each Force power.
			2.	Use their Melding skill to link all the powers
			together.  The difficulty for the Melding roll is:
			* Moderate		for 2 powers.
			* Difficult		for 3 powers.
			* Very Difficult	for 4 powers.
			* Heroic		for 5 powers.
			* +5 Difficulty		for each additional power.
				Melding is a gradual process and each power to
			be melded must be activate on successive rounds.  The
			exception to this rule is if a Grace check is made to
			snap-meld the Force powers, in which case, if all rolls
			succeed, all of the powers are activated and melded in
			the one round and count as one action.
				To snap-meld Force powers, the difficulty for
			the Grace check is:
			* Difficult + 2 per Force power melded.
			If the Grace check fails, then none of the Force powers
			may be activated this turn.


3.0	CHARACTER CREATION
	==================

	To create a Force using character with TAFS, normal attribute dice may
be allocated to the Force attributes, up to a maximum of 2D per attribute.
Skill dice may be added to TAFS Force skills likewise, up to a maximum of 2D
per skill.  The character must, of course, be Force sensitive.


4.0	TAFS POWERS
	===========

	Force users gain a Force power for every pip of increase in their
Finesse skill.  To learn new powers without increasing Finesse, use the same
rules as for gaining powers under WEG rules, when not increasing Force skills.
New descriptions for Force powers will be outlined in another file.