(TFT) TFT popularity

[Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>]

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Well, I think your figures are off, because as far as sales were concerned,
TFT was 
a minor game compared to D&D. I only know one group that played it locally.
Mine.<

Possibly - my source is the book "Heroic Worlds" by Lawrence Schick, page
154, a quote from Steve Jackson "Nevertheless, TFT found a market. At one
time, according to a Model Retailer survey, it was the third-most-popular
fantasy RPG, after D&D and RuneQuest. But it never recieved adequate
support, in either quality or quantity, to get a truly wide following".

I think that if the the production values had improved slightly and if it
had branched out into being 'universal' (as various articles in Interplay
indicated that that was the direction it was going) it's would have been
about the only game in that market...

It's a far easier introduction to role-playing that D&D ever was and it
would have been much easier to adapt to various genre's so it would have
much easier to authors write creative worlds for it. 

Possibly wishful thinking, but I dont think it's that unlikely - remember
Steve Jackson went on to write Car Wars, a game with immediate roleplaying
possiblities and others would surely have followed...

Michael
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