(TFT) Hail Melee

[John Paul Bakshoian <shadowhex@hotmail.com>]

Hail Melee.  New Lister here.

John Paul Bakshoian age 40.  Long term RPG player and G.M.  I've attended 
the StrategiCons in L.A. since 1979.  Though I've played D&D, Runequest, 
Shadowrun & GURPS and others, my drug of choice is The Fantasy Trip.  While 
the pace of my youth has slackened, I still game TFT about half a dozen 
times a year.  I have In The Labyrinth, Advanced Melee, Advanced Wizards, 
G.M. Shield, Codex, several of the box sets.

I am currently running a cthulhu campaign.  I have a base of six players and 
I have these guys get raw recruits when needed.  I occasionally run TFT 
games at cons.  In a metropolitan area, it can be easier to get players, but 
they may have to travel 60 miles to get to a game.

As are many of the gamers on this site, I am also a game designer; Shadow 
Hex Games is my company.  I'll have a website up in a couple of months.

I had been searching the net for TFT sites and last year found the GURPS 
site.  It had very little info on Metagaming; enough to keep me looking.  
Then this year I found "home".  Its taken me about four months to read 
through the entire listing, but I feel well grounded in the copyright 
debate, e-bay sales and the need for TFT materials.  I have not gone to any 
of the links yet, though.

I am impressed with what Joe Hartley has done here.  The monthly list is a 
great history and permanent data source.  But I'm wondering, after a year, 
is this site what you expected?  When I came across it, I was expecting more 
sharing of house rules and personal articles on TFT.  (I admit again that 
most of what I'm looking for is probably on the links).  I am very happy for 
those published articles that appear here.  (I've been searching for 
Jackson's conversion of D&D to TFT for a long time.)

I've noticed on this site that there are a lot of people who are isolated 
from other gamers and also that some have excess or are missing books.  Joe 
(or whoever), is it possible to create a matrix and post it on the TFT home 
page?  A layout could be:

	Name					John Paul Bakshoian
	City/State				Pasedena, CA
	Nearest Convention		LA Airport (StrategiCon, OrcCon, Gamex)
	TFT items owned			ITL, AM, AW, Screen, several boxed sets
	Do you PBM?				no
	Last updated			6/99

This could be updated by e-mail.  It would at least generate a quick 
reference as to where TFT public is.  Any other headings that should go into 
this matrix?

And now for my contribution to The Fantasy Trip culture:
	Troop Movement in TFT.

<read my next posting for details.>

John Paul





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