(TFT) Re: Response from Chris -- RE: [TFT-JME] Heroes & Other Worlds

[Joel BoardgameRpger <joel.siragher@gmail.com>]

can i forward this note to the TFT list  tft@brainiac.com???



On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:56 PM, fenway5@frontier.com
<fenway5@frontier.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the question, let me see if I can give you some background on
> the design thoughts behind HOW.
>
> First let's start with how HOW is like Basic D&D?  Its a good intro to
> role playing with character creation, spells, monsters and adventure
> creation all in one book!  Just like Basic D&D its all you need to play in
> one book and is a good tool for either someone new to gaming or someone
> comfortable with gaming, but who wants a sensible a flexible system they
> can easily add to to make their own.
>
> What it is not is a direct clone of TFT, some people might be disappointed
> with that, but I can't see the benefit of just giving you what you already
> have. Maybe I am just blind.  :)
>
> 1) I learned gaming from Moldvay Basic D&D, and there is a complete
> simplicity to presenting the basics of playing and refereeing an adventure
> game. I tried to incorporate that into HOW.
>
> 2) Melee/Wizard/Dragons of Underearth provided a simple and sensible (and
> chart free) manner of adjudicating rules. I tried to incorporate that.
>
> 3) TFT and later GURPS took a simple and sensible system and crunched it
> up losing a simplicity that made melee/ wizard such hits. So I tried to
> take some basics from TFT that did not overly complicate the main system
> and included those
>
> 4) I like chrome and options as much as the next gamer, and have a list of
> "options" I plan to offer for HOW, but these options will be separate from
> the core rules. I don't even want to call it advanced rules because I think
> that is a misnomer.  Instead I think a referee and his group should have a
> host of options to pick form to make the game fit their style rather than
> me by fiat saying "these are the mandatory rules of the game."
>
> The basic rules cover the necessities to play, anything else I offer is
> optional to suit or add to the way you like to play!
>
--- In TFT-JME@yahoogroups.com, Joel BoardgameRpger <joel.siragher@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > BD&D?  Im assuming you mean Basic dnd? im not very good with
> abbreviations
> > :)
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Matthew <thefiendish@...> wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks Andrew and Chris. That brings up another question: in what way
> does
> > > HOW support play like BD&D? Is it that it's much simpler than full on
> TFT?
> > > Or is there something more?
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