Wiglaf
member, 827 posts
Mon 22 Mar 2021
at 20:24 | Any Fans of The Fantasy Trip Here?I'm curious if there are other fans of The Fantasy Trip hanging around? Hove you ever tried running a game using that system over RPoL?
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donsr
member, 2207 posts
Mon 22 Mar 2021
at 20:48 | Any Fans of The Fantasy Trip Here?beem a log time fan, i played in a few games on Yahoo, that others ran as well.
I tried to run the game here a couple times, but...i'm no good with maps, so i tried to make in a RP game without the Hexes?
they players couldn't wrap thier heads around it, so i switched to a D&Dish version, that had some of TFT in it.... and finally i switched ovcer ot my own system which is alot simple and cleaner.
If there was a real simple and quick way to make hexboard maps and change them, i think it would do great here.
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GreenTongue
member, 949 posts
Game Archaeologist
Tue 23 Mar 2021
at 17:06 | Any Fans of The Fantasy Trip Here?A couple of map tools were mentioned in my thread "Miniature Movement in Skirmish Type Games Too Difficult?" that may be what you would need for TFT play.
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evileeyore
member, 473 posts
GURPS GM and Player
Joined August 2015
Tue 23 Mar 2021
at 20:08 | Any Fans of The Fantasy Trip Here?For a "Wizard Duel" I ran (GURPS Fantasy) I grabbed the TFT Mega Hexes from the pdfs, made copies, tweaked one to be blank, and just "built my own maps using MS Paint. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't efficient, but it was simple and relatively fast. There are loads of sprite based furniture all over the web, you can also find hex-based map generators around, though I find they can be fiddly.
Going "Theatre of the Mind" route can be "easier" but it puts more work on you as GM to be impeccable with your descriptions. The more detailed your descriptions, the easier it is to run and adjudicate.
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donsr
member, 2208 posts
Tue 23 Mar 2021
at 20:28 | Any Fans of The Fantasy Trip Here?yeah? i think the game lasted about a year before i had to switch, because some pople said they needed a map?//but///we're not at table top?... sheesh!
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Wiglaf
member, 828 posts
Wed 24 Mar 2021
at 04:56 | Any Fans of The Fantasy Trip Here?Thank you for the feedback. :)
I remember seeing a pretty good text map of a hex grid in the Haven forum. If I ever decide to run this system I'll probably bust that one out. Maybe add some coordinates to it as well.
I'm not sure how you can run Theater of the Mind with TFT. It seems like the hexes are so baked into the system from Melee and Wizard that it would be very difficult to change that.
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donsr
member, 2209 posts
Wed 24 Mar 2021
at 08:15 | Any Fans of The Fantasy Trip Here?i just used 'yards' instead of 'hexes'. a couple players had no problems, and we sorta doane away with facing.
But, you have to be firm on what they are doing to get the same feel.. D&D does it?...TFT shouldn't be punished for being a Tactical RP game.
as a side note, i was a backer for SJ brining it back..however, at my age i just have the massive box of really neat stuff and no one to play!
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evileeyore
member, 474 posts
GURPS GM and Player
Joined August 2015
Wed 24 Mar 2021
at 16:10 | Re: Any Fans of The Fantasy Trip Here?| donsr: | | as a side note, i was a backer for SJ brining it back..however, at my age i just have the massive box of really neat stuff and no one to play! |
I backed it too, despite not liking it's... 'crude simplicity'. But it's Evil Stevie's baby and I wanted to see what the revamp would look like and what I could mine from it.
But I'm really not fan of the system. It needs some more levers, dials, and subsystems for me... but at which point it's basically GURPS and we already have that so... ;)
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donsr
member, 2210 posts
Wed 24 Mar 2021
at 16:18 | Re: Any Fans of The Fantasy Trip Here?yep..gurps is the child of TFT... i use my own ideas off that for my homebrew system i use in my games.
also? Darkcity games, if they are still around, is TFT with some tweaks, still uses hexbaord..the guy who was behind it was a Navy Seal, i talked to him on Yahoo a few times, when my sun made a run at The Seals.. i am still a FB friend with him
for Spacegamer..the mag for Metagaming, i wrote some stuff, but they were never published.
I made a Multi-level, 'ever changing" quest for Dark City games, but me and the company's editor didn't quite hit it off and it was sent back to be to 're-edit'... My late wife was on the tail end of her fight with cancer, so i never did resend it...
But? i have played it with my kids and they were young adults at the time, they liked how some rooms cganged from game to game.
ahh well..this is off the tack, but good memories!..wish it would have been published!
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