(TFT) BOUNCE tft@brainiac.com: Non-member submission from [The Maverick <themaverick@volcano.net>] (fwd)

[Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by INTERNET:tft@brainiac.com
> 
>>>>>P.S.  Andy was interested in any comments that the letter might
>>>>>generate.  You can write him at awindes@anv.net, or cc: any replies
sent
>>>>>to the mailing list.

Very interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing this with us!

>>>>>-----  letter to Andy Windes from Howard Thompson  -----
>>>>> TFT is too complicated as completed by Steve Jackson.  He completed
the
>>>>>project as he wished, not as I'd hoped or even laid down constraints. 
>>>>>All the material in Advanced
>>>>>Melee and Advanced Wizard didn't need to be added at all.  More spells
>>>>>and weapons fine, more detail of combat, no.
>>>>> My feeling is that in the extra two years of work TFT got longer
>>>>>instead of better.  

I can see this. I wouldn't whole-heartedly agree, but the game did get
longer without adding enough fundamental rules. Combat seems to me to be
one of the roughest sections - though it still plays better than 99.9% of
the RPG combat systems *ever* written! 

I compare it to Car Wars, that has been entirely worked over thoughout the
years and still plays fairly smoothly with very few clumsy wrinkles left in
it - despite being adapted to planes, tanks, mecha, and battlesuits....

>>>>>I'm having work started no (sic) on a new FRP system
>>>>>that can be introduced in 3-4 years and is closer to what I think the
>>>>>market wants and what I'll feel comfortable in publishing.

I'd LOVE to know what happened to that game!

Michael 


====Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com.
Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body
"unsubscribe tft"