I never really played Melee with counters. A couple of members of my gaming group in college had some painted Minifigs and we played using them. We used hex paper and dry erase markers to draw in walls, doors, etc. As far as visual appeal the miniatures helped set the scene more than the flat counters. That led me into wanting to do more as I got older. The Games Workshop people looked like they were having fun making great looking terrain so I set out to do the same thing for Melee. Who's to say, maybe if Metagaming had stayed around this would have been the direction Melee/Wizards would have evolved into.
That leads me to the point of my web site. It's not so much there to talk about the glory days of TFT and the history involved, other sites cover that well enough. I want to continue to move forward with the game, much as George Dew is doing with his new published scenarios from Dark City Games (please support his efforts if you haven't already by picking up one of his scenarios). Perhaps we can start the revolution and bring this game back from the dead by interesting new people (especially the Games Workshop folks, hell, they've already got a ton of miniatures) into trying it. To do so it has to have modern, visual appeal. I've been on the Heroscape boards a lot of late and already have a few converts to Melee. Perhaps my web site will reach even more.
--David O. Miller On Jun 13, 2007, at 1:57 PM, lifeisfun@aol.com wrote:
Seriously, those gameboard pictures look fantastic!B Where did you get all those great gameboard settings?B Or did you make them?B My group plays with photocopies of the hex paper that came with the game and four sided dice withone end blackened by a lighter to indicate facing! Good Fortune, Richard -----Original Message----- From: Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net> To: tft@brainiac.com Sent: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:53 pm Subject: Re: (TFT) My New TFT Tribute Web Site - www.meleewizards.com That's a beautiful site! Those are some wonderful-looking photos of battles!B B PvKB Bhttp://www.meleewizards.com/B B --David O. MillerB_______________________________________________________________________ _ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free fromAOL at AOL.com. ===== Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com. Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body "unsubscribe tft"
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