Re: (TFT) Heritage/Philosophy of TFT

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

Rave writes

>i honestly dont think so, this one is more based in mythos... there wasnt even
>a hobbit in the original.. it was essentially a very fast, very easy game for
>stand alone combat.  only much later when Melee caught on, and others were
>using it for the "combat" portion of their D&D games(like i was) did the whole
>RPG thing happen.
>
>then they made wizard.

Good point. It's fair to say *ITL* (only) is heavily based on Tolkien.
Melee is much less so, as is Adv. Melee. The Wizard and Ad. Wizard modules
are intermediate: there, there are many parallels that can be drawn. Ring
of Invisibility, Control Person (etc) items, Long-distance Telepathy Items,
Flaming Swords, Detect Enemies Items, Crystal Balls (palantirs), Blast
spell, Dazzle spell, etc. all have predecessors in Tolkien, though probably
also in other places in many cases.
							- Mark
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