Re: (TFT) TFT Release

["John Paul Bakshoian" <hailmelee@hotmail.com>]

> From: Thorn <edt@dopey.ne.mediaone.net>
> Subject: Re: (TFT) TFT Release
> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:24:06 -0400
>
> Michael Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Message text written by INTERNET:tft@brainiac.com
> > >Anyone thought of gathering all the house rules...
> > I've done alot of it - not all of it, but quite a bit of it
> > (someone else can tackle the spells!), but the general reaction
> > from the list has been rather against the idea.
>
> Really?  Against consoldating what the list does?

If I'm not to out of line, Michael, I think Michael is saying that reaction 
from the list is against 'publishing' a re-edit of the TFT rules which 
Thompson owns the copyright and putting them on the net or selling them.  
Perhaps if someone wants to see the effort that Michael has done, you could 
get a copy from him.  That too might infringe on the copyright, but to me 
that is a very small circulation and not for profit.

> > Also, (as recently mentioned in a post) just about everyone
> > modifies TFT, so it's very hard to get a concensus on what > would work 
> for the group.
>
> We could work it like this: (I guess this is the 'framework' someone
> else said we needed).
>
> ...(other sections, maybe)...
>
> Sec. X: House Rules
>            Carnn and Environs
>            Runes of the New World
>            etc...
>
> We'd have one section for monsters, I'd guess.  I'd write my Sept
> Gargoyles with my RNW stats, and Jim Fountas could write his 'Lost City 
> Demons' with his stat set.  Each monster would have a
> declaration of which campaign it came from, and each campaign
> section in House Rules would explain those stats.

Sort of a Worldbook concept a la GURPS.

> We wouldn't be writing this for the 13-yr olds T$R writes for.  A
> moronic level of clarity is not needed.

Actually, if you write it for your own reading level, this will force any 
desirous young player to increase their reading ability.
Which in this age of computer games, one does not even have to read 3 
volumes of intricate logic and become a words lawyer to battle for your 
right for your character to survive.  Just point and shoot.  The computer 
even tells you what to do via tutorial.  Now, as a kid, you can sit in a 
dark room and never have to interface with life again.  And they were 
complaining about kids playing D&D in steam tunnels?  At least those guys 
went out and experienced, er, life.

Hail Melee

John Paul

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