01-10-2018, 03:22 PM | #1 |
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Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
I was going through my old site and came across this article Ron Pehr wrote for the Space Gamer:
http://web.archive.org/web/200707241...t/superher.htm I'm not into superheroes, but this article also has a considerable amount of basic information for a possible TFT modern supplement. A different take on TFT modern can be extracted from my own TFT Traveller conversion http://web.archive.org/web/200707241...t/travellr.htm And the High Tech TFT combat system expansion: http://web.archive.org/web/200707241.../tft/HiTek.htm I suppose I should also mention Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes. It has a skill system that could be very easily adapted for TFT; they're already organized by IQ and by IQ point cost. http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/mercen.htm Last edited by tbeard1999; 01-10-2018 at 03:28 PM. |
01-10-2018, 10:04 PM | #2 |
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Re: Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
IMHO, if you are already playing GURPS you want GURPS Supers, and if you are not already playing GURPS, but want a superhero campaign, you want Champions.
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01-11-2018, 04:30 PM | #3 |
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Re: Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
With sufficient archaeological skills applied to my basement, I may be able to find the rules from the Fantasy Trip Supers game we played quite a bit in college. The Champions system worked much better for us melted down into TFT style! =^,^=
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01-12-2018, 12:03 PM | #4 |
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Re: Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
Sophmore year in college, I switched my 1E AD&D game over to TFT for about a semester as an experiment, letting players convert characters as best they could.
I remember using the Superheroes article from Space Gamer as an option for letting characters get "innate magical abilities". It was a lot of fun, but alas, the derth of ongoing support for TFT led us to eventually go back to D&D. |
01-12-2018, 02:15 PM | #5 |
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Re: Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
I would recommend M&M or Fate before Champions nowadays. Champions seems to be the game of being good at making Champions characters, rather than especially anything in comics.
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01-12-2018, 02:48 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
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But! If I've got a bunch of friends who play TFT, but not GURPS, M&M, Fate, Champions, etc., and we all want to play superheroes, why not use a ruleset we know? (I'm pretty sure I've said the same thing for Car Wars and Autoduel Champions over on the Car Wars forum.) Also, I'm not going to pretend Champions is a light, easy game; it works best with people who've been playing it for a while, or who've had the time and energy to figure it out on their own. GURPS is on par with Champions; M&M and Fate are a bit more lightweight but have their own quirks. With TFT, even with superheroes, you can have characters made and be fighting in ten minutes.
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01-14-2018, 03:30 AM | #7 |
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Re: Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
The TFT supers article was quite playable... (TSG 65)
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01-14-2018, 01:36 PM | #8 |
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Location: Harker Heights Texas
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Re: Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
I second Mutants and Masterminds. It is an extremely well written and designed game, that emulates comic book action perfectly.
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01-16-2018, 12:54 PM | #9 |
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Location: Arizona
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Re: Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
I agree with this completely -- Champions was our go-to Superhero system back in the day, not some conversion attempt (I haven't played or run a Superhero game in a quarter of a century, though).
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01-18-2018, 05:10 PM | #10 | |
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Re: Fantasy Trip Modern and Superheroes
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Bob P Sparks, NV First TFT Played 1 Apr 1981 (no foolin') |
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