Re: (TFT) Avalon Hill's "Down with the King".

[Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>]

Hi Jeffrey,
  Which Yahoo group?  Thail?

  I'm not sure I can open *.docx files.  Can you use a standard like *.odt 
or perhaps *.doc?

  Warm regards, Rick.


On 2015-09-02, at 3:43 PM, Jeffrey Vandine wrote:

> Yeah, we figured out that the attachments got stripped.  I guess I cou
> ld post the revised tables to the Yahoo group files -- could you get them t
> here?
> The PDF was the original DWTK tables, plus the extras, the .docx file was t
> he revised ones for use with TFT.
> 
>      From: Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>
> To: tft@brainiac.com 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 3:37 PM
> Subject: Re: (TFT) Avalon Hill's "Down with the King".
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> Â  If they are basically copies of the tables from DWtK, I do not need
> you to post them.  I have the full set (including the extra ones from
> 
> the General Magazine), in my copy of the game.
> 
> Â  By the way, the post from the mailing list didn't have any attachmen
> ts.
> 
> Â  Warm regards, Rick.
> 
> 
> On 2015-09-02, at 8:49 AM, Jeffrey Vandine wrote:
> 
>> Well,believe it or not, I had written them up on the computer (this is ob
> vi
>> ously a rewrite from the old original tables, but it appears to be pretty
> v
>> erbatim to me), and I found them in a mass of stuff I have stored on my c
> om
>> puter for TFT.Ã≠  These were developed for the rules as written,
> and, as
>> best I can remember, were based on a group effort and a risk/reward parad
> i
>> gm which meant that the more you had to "pay" to use a table, the bigger 
> th
>> e potential benefit or loss would be.Ã≠  
>> 
>> If I were to use these now, I would wind up pretty much re-writing them i
> n 
>> view of my adoption of DCG's experience points system.Ã≠  I migh
> t even m
>> ake the players sacrifice some XP to use some of the tables, gambling tha
> t 
>> they would receive more by doing so....
>> Speaking of gambling, the gambling system was pretty much straight out of
> E
>> n Garde as I recall, and while we have a gambling table, the players coul
> d 
>> instead opt to "gamble" using the gambling game as opposed to rolling on 
> th
>> e table.Ã≠  Usually it revolved around whether they just wanted 
> money, o
>> r they also wanted to see if there was a duel forced on them by random ev
> en
>> t.Ã≠  I think I also have another tavern gambling game around he
> re somew
>> here that could be used, but I'll have to look around some more.
>> 
>> Anyway, here they are.Ã≠  I'm also attaching the DWTK prestige t
> ables in
>> pdf format for everyone's general awareness....Ã≠  See the attac
> hments.
>> 
>> v/rJeff
>> 
>> Â  Â  Â  From: Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>
>> To: tft@brainiac.com 
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 5:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: (TFT) Avalon Hill's "Down with the King".
>> 
>> Hi Jeffrey,
>> Ã≠  If the 'down time' tables are written up, I would be curious
> to see 
>> them.
>> 
>> Ã≠  Warm regards, Rick.
>> 
>> 
>> On 2015-09-01, at 8:58 PM, Jeffrey Vandine wrote:
>> 
>>> It was fun as a multi-player game -- your fortunes could fluctuate quite
> 
>> a 
>>> bit in a relatively short time, and you were almost never out of the gam
> e
>> b
>>> efore the end -- and when you added in the "extra" prestige tables that 
> g
>> ot
>>> published in the Avalon Hill General, it actually became quite a bit mor
> e
>> 
>>> fun.
>>> But yes, we mostly mined it for ideas for other games, one of which was 
> t
>> he
>>> "extra" downtime activities for TFT....Ã∞â≈ Ã≠  ;-)
>>> 
>>> Ã≠  Ã≠  Ã≠  From: Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightsp
> eed.ca>
>>> To: tft@brainiac.com 
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:18 PM
>>> Subject: (TFT) Avalon Hill's "Down with the King".
>>> 
>>> Down with the King!
>>> 
>>> I liked the design of that game, a shame that it took so long.Ã∞â
> Š̭
>> Â  I thin
>> 
>> 
>>> k i still
>>> own it, but basically it was not as fun per hour as other games so it ha
> s
>>> not been pulled out for ages.
>>> 
>>> Warm regards, Rick.
>>> 
>> 
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