Re: (TFT) TFT-style rules

["Jay Carlisle" <selfinflicted_wounds@boardermail.com>]

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> From: ErolB1@aol.com
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: Re: (TFT) TFT-style rules
> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:21:32 EDT
> 
> 
> In a message dated 10/20/2007 1:17:58 PM Central Daylight Time,
> kwoller@satx.rr.com writes:
> 
> 
> > So my question to the group is, what do you think about a "rewrite" of the
> > TFT rules, in effect bringing them into the 21st century under another
> > copyright?  Saying the same things in essence, but in other literal words,
> > to preserve this game system for future generations before it is lost
> > completely.  How many of you love the way TFT works versus other FRP game
> > systems and this is what keeps you playing it?  Would the brainiac site, for
> > instance, host a link to this rewrite of TFT if it were available and if DCG
> > would not?
> 
> Years ago, between TFT being out of print and my own fat wad of house rules,
> I decided to write up a "TFT private edition" incorporating all my house rules
> and producing something I could print out and hand to new players. Later I
> decided to do a second "private edition," with even more 
> modifications to better
> suit my own style and better fit my own game-world of Etan. This I've renamed
> "System Etan" and it will be finished Real Soon Now.
> 
> You can find both the old "TFT Private Edition" and parts of the new "System
> Etan" on my aol homepage: http://members.aol.com/erolb1/etan.html
> 
> I'm willing to contribute these to the effort, with the older "private
> edition" being more useful if you want to duplicate the original. 
> It will still need
> a going over, to remove any of my own house rules that the Group Mind here
> would want to reject, and also to rewrite any places where I copied
> word-for-word from the Metagaming edition rather than recasting 
> things in my own words
> (not too many of those, IIRC, but some). If people are interested, 
> I can send the
> Word documents which would be easier for people to edit than the pdf files on
> my website.
> 
> Erol K Bayburt
> Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow
> 
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