Re: (TFT) We've lost another one...

[<paleryder1@verizon.net>]

I've always like D&D. There were certainly things that I didn't like, but it's another way to skin the fantasy role-playing cat. I think I like attribute/skill based systems like TFT and GURPS better. D&D is great simply because of the amount of resources available. I am disappointed with later DM guides. I recall the old one (with the big red demon on it) was full of information and theory. It was good reading by itself.

I had a much easier time converting the old AD&D characters to TFT. When I recently tried to convert the 2nd ed./Players' Choice stuff to TFT, I found it much more difficult. These later editions of D&D start characters out with an enormous amount of skills and proficiencies (class, race, otherwise) and spells. I found that if I tried to give the 3rd level D&D character all that he wanted, I wound up with a TFT character that looked like it had been a 15th Lvl D&D character from the old days. It was difficult.

In the end, I think my conversions were pretty close. The problem may be in not fully converting everything. I'm still hopeful that we can work out the bugs. The boys have calmed down and little and are thinking more about our options.

Thanks guys.
Aidan


From: Gavin Gossett <Gavatar@comcast.net>
Date: 2006/11/15 Wed AM 10:50:38 CST
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: (TFT) We've lost another one...

Aiden,

Most of us 'got it'.  I just have to assume that maybe Erol has been corrupted
- nay, Brainwashed - by the Pod People!  It's not his fault.

Gav
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Todd Roseberry
  To: tft@brainiac.com
  Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:12 AM
  Subject: Re: (TFT) Ogre PC


  I was joking.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: <ErolB1@aol.com>
  To: <tft@brainiac.com>
  Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:23 AM
  Subject: Re: (TFT) Ogre PC


  > Enough with the evangalism. TFT is not Holy Writ - it's a game system, and
  > as
  > such it may or may not be the "right tool for the job" depending on the
  > particular nature of job at hand. It has both advantages and drawbacks,
  > and whether
  > the advantages outweigh the drawbacks depends both on the tastes of the
  > players and the style of the particular campaign they want to run. For
  > some types
  > of games, it's great; for others it sucks mountain ranges through a soda
  > straw.
  >
  >
  > Likewise D&D is not some Evil Insane Lovecraftian cult. It also is a game
  > system, and as such may or may not be the "right tool" for a given job. It
  > has a
  > different set of advantages and drawbacks from TFT, and whether its a
  > "better"
  > or "worse" system depends on the tastes of the players and the type of
  > campaign being run.
  >
  > Yes, D&D does have certain D&Disms. But TFT has certain Steve-Jacksonisms
  > which in some cases I find just as annoying. ("The game world  was created
  > by
  > universe-hopping mnoren." "lycanothropy and vampirsm are infectious
  > diseases"
  > Hell no, not in *my* campaign.)
  >
  > In a message dated 11/14/2006 10:18:52 PM Central Standard Time,
  > paleryder1@verizon.net writes:
  >
  >
  >> You're not the first to suggest that. I offered to "baptize" them and
  >> free
  >> them from the burden and slavery they have suffered under for years. It
  >> seems that the "pod people", or at least the Wizards of the Coast, got
  >> them.
  >>
  >> They're good guys, although the other night they seemed like a bunch of
  >> old
  >> ladies. :-) They really want to streamline the combat but they are hooked
  >> on
  >>
  >> the detail and complexity of D&D character creation with all the bells
  >> and
  >> whistles. Thanks.
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