Re: (TFT) Associatin of Fantasy Trippers

[Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>]

>If the members of this mailing list locked away their
>Metagaming products and wrote a new RPG from scratch that
>embodies the kind of rules you like, it would probably be
>a great de facto successor to TFT.
>>>>>>   I can only speak for myself here.  It is in the works.  I have
something 
>>>>>>that playtesting has shown to be fairly hot.  My plan is to publish
in 2002. 

>>>>>>The original balanced system is still intact and hasn't been 
>>>>>>warped by some well meaning revision.  Even from its designer.  On
top of 
>>>>>>that it still does far more, with far less, and take the least amount
of 
>>>>>>time to make a character while offering the greatest flexibility of
any 
>>>>>>system ever written.
>>>>>>   I don't think there ever will be another game like TFT.

So isn't this a good reason for "not* trying to publsh a "TFT-like" system?


While it is easy to *say*, just go ahead and publish something that's like
TFT, I dont really think it's all that easy to do. 

Not because of the time it takes (easily solved, there is after all, no
deadline!) or because of concensus (whoever writes the rules gets the final
vote!), but simply because TFT is is very unique. 

Something that's "alot like it" probably wont cut it. The devil *is* in the
details. After all, GURPS is a "lot like" TFT, but for most of us, it's not
good enough, because of the small details that absolutely unqiue to the TFT
copyright. 

Of course, I do promise to buy and read all attempts...

Michael 
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