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

Well, hell, maybe not -- I can't seem to upload files at any of the TFT gro
ups -- unlike the WarpWar group.  So maybe the solution is I send it t
o you directly....

      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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