(TFT) Microquests

[jh@metheny.brainiac.com (Joe Hartley)]

Perhaps school has just begun, or we're all swamped with work, or everyone's
busy on their entry for the Microgame mailing list contest.  But whatever the
reason, we're pretty quiet lately, so I figured I'd toss out a topic for
discussion.

MicroQuests - which ones have you played?  Which ones did you like most?
Least?  Did you play them solitaire exclusively, or use them as a basis
for a fuller RPG experience?

I had run through the 2 DeathTests solitaire a long time ago, and while I
enjoyed them for giving me the basis for a number of different Melee/Wizard
battles to run through, the "Kill-em-all-and-collect-the-treasure" format
was a bit tiresome.  I had the opportunity to run DT1 with my nephew a few
years ago, and the face-to-face aspect made it a lot more fun.

I'm being run through GrailQuest now in a PBEM game, and it's been _great_;
the best RPG experience I've ever had.  I'm taking the part of the Knight,
and the GM has been excellent, using the game as the basis for the wider
RPG experience.  The NPCs and opponents have some real personality, and
while the game's still 95% right out of the box, fleshing it out with
other RPG elements has made this extremely enjoyable.

These 3 MQ's (GrailQuest and the 2 DeathTests) are the only ones I've played
to date!  I've had a copy of Silver Dragon for ages, but never played it
for some reason, and now that I have the whole set, I'm looking forward to
a lot of fun gaming.


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