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

I would probably use the TheFantasyTrip (aka TFT - In the Labyrinth) yahoo 
group.  Yeah, I can resave as a doc or odt format, though generally do
c is more widely accessible.  If you're using Libre Office (the succes
sor to Open Office) you can, in fact, open docx files, which are the new st
andard for MSOffice files.

      From: Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca>
 To: tft@brainiac.com 
 Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 12:16 AM
 Subject: Re: (TFT) Avalon Hill's "Down with the King".
   
Hi Jeffrey,
  Which Yahoo group?  Thail?

  I'm not sure I can open *.docx files.  Can you use a standard l
ike *.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 gue
ss 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,
>   If they are basically copies of the tables from DWtK, I do n
ot need
> you to post them.  I have the full set (including the extra on
es from
> 
> the General Magazine), in my copy of the game.
> 
>   By the way, the post from the mailing list didn't have any a
ttachmen
> ts.
> 
>   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 o
b
> vi
>> ously a rewrite from the old original tables, but it appears to be prett
y
> 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 r
ules as written,
> and, as
>> best I can remember, were based on a group effort and a risk/reward para
d
> 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 th
a
> t 
>> they would receive more by doing so....
>> Speaking of gambling, the gambling system was pretty much straight out o
f
> E
>> n Garde as I recall, and while we have a gambling table, the players cou
l
> d 
>> instead opt to "gamble" using the gambling game as opposed to rolling on
 
> th
>> e table.Ã≠  Usually it revolved around whether t
hey just wanted 
> money, o
>> r they also wanted to see if there was a duel forced on them by random e
v
> en
>> t.Ã≠  I think I also have another tavern gamblin
g 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≠Â�� See the attac
> hments.
>> 
>> v/rJeff
>> 
>>       From: Rick Smith <rick_ww@lightsp
eed.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 quit
e
> 
>> a 
>>> bit in a relatively short time, and you were almost never out of the ga
m
> 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 mo
r
> 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
>>   I thin
>> 
>> 
>>> k i still
>>> own it, but basically it was not as fun per hour as other games so it h
a
> s
>>> not been pulled out for ages.
>>> 
>>> Warm regards, Rick.
>>> 
>> 
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