(TFT) Reality testing

[Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>]

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> >>>>>> As long as I'm ranting, as far as Howard
> >>>>>>Thompson is concerned I anyone ever does get the
> >>>>>>money to buy TFT, I bet you could get it cheaper if
> >>>>>>you bought all of metagamming.  Every module, and
> >>>>>>supplement.  All of the copyrights.  I wonder if
> >>>>>>there are any liabilities left?  Assuming debt can
> >>>>>>be huge.  Particularly with interest over time.

I agree completely and I've probably got the money. But yeah, I'd like to
buy *all* of Metagaming, all the other games. 

I'm hoping someone out there knows a way to get HT to talk about a serious
offer but so far I haven't found out how...

I also have those same questions about the past debts...

> >>>>>>A friend who lives
> >>>>>>in Florida and was a member of the SCA for many
> >>>>>>years told me that "the SCA is just a support group
> >>>>>>for the emotionally disturbed".  

LOL! This was always my impression of the SCA. 

I also think you bring up many good points about SCA fighting. For as good
a game designer as Steve Jackson is I think he has ultimately listened a
little too closely to some of the SCA members who claim that SCA fighting
is 'realisitic'. 

I've always suspected that TFT --- being designed for playability was
always alot more fast-moving and realistic than GURPS which was designed
for realism, but which plays much more like an SCA fight. 

The biggest guy with the toughest armor always wins period.
Whack-Whack-Whack. Stop and move (1 second), Whack-Whack-Whack. Stop and
move (2 seconds). It's never seemed even remotely realistic to me...

> >>>>>>I realized that if F.L.A.G. had been formed with TFT
> >>>>>>players and not old school AD&D / SCA types, it
> >>>>>>might have stood a chance, but hit points was the
> >>>>>>core of their game system and it was what they were
> >>>>>>out there to reality test.

I think that we've actually heard from a group in Canada that has a
TFT-LARP going. The rules are in the archives! 

Thanks for sharing - this was interesting.
Michael
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