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Re: (TFT) Re: TFT Digest V3 #880



Which editions of which books should we be looking for?

On Wed, February 14, 2007 12:43 pm, Sethkimmel@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/14/07 1:13:40 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
> tft-owner@brainiac.com writes:
>
>
>> Interesting.  It makes me want to research "C&S" ("Chivalry and
>> Sorcery").
>>
>> I never played it.  Does anyone have any comments on it as a gaming
>> system?
>>
>
> IMNSHO (and I used to be a friend of Scott Bizar's when FGU was still
> around
> on Long Island so I don't consider myself biased against it...) it's the
> FINEST database of Medieval and Feudal economics I've ever seen short of a
> Doctoral
> dissertation. It's also not too shabby as far as teaching the culture of
> Medieval and Feudal Europe. It also has a HUGE magical database covering
> most
> "historical" magic (i.e., it described and tried to quantify all European
> magic
> from myth and literature). That being said it sucks wind as a PLAYABLE
> system.
> It is a nightmare of detail and "realism." I DO recommend that everybody
> pick
> them up for the info and use another RPG system (I wonder if anyone can
> think
> of one...:-)?) to game out the situations. It is WAY to far over on the
> realism
> side of the "realism Vs playability" scale.
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