01-06-2021, 05:05 AM | #41 | |
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: London Uk, but originally from Scotland
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Re: Your all-time top-3 house rules - Take 2
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01-06-2021, 09:47 AM | #42 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: Your all-time top-3 house rules
Four or five years ago I wrote a fantasy-heartbreaker sort of game that was based closely on canonical TFT but totally removed the concepts of talents and the hero/wizard divide and replaced them with a half dozen stats, sort of inspired by the structure of the rules of Prince Valiant. I like the end result, though honestly I wouldn't bother playing it now that I have groaning shelves full of awesome Legacy Edition materials.
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01-07-2021, 03:21 PM | #43 | ||
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01-08-2021, 08:21 AM | #44 |
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Re: Your all-time top-3 house rules
I completed (and privately distributed) my mega-house-ruled version of TFT around that time; I was pretty happy with it and it contains a ton of monsters and spells and talents not found in the core game, but I don't regret setting it aside when Legacy Edition started being distributed to backers as digital files ~2 years ago. House rules are fun, but when they get out of control the whole thing takes on a life of its own and before you know it you are spending more time making rules than playing. That's not the gaming life I want, so I've scaled way back to just a couple of little tweaks to rules, a carefully curated new weapon list, and the occasional tome of new spells when I am inspired to drop something unexpected in front of the player.
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01-09-2021, 03:52 AM | #45 |
Join Date: Jun 2019
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Re: Your all-time top-3 house rules
We never wasted much time on house rules on game day. We'd take a quick vote at the start if anyone proposed one, if it was unanimous we accepted it and got on with playing. It used up a ton of my personal time between gaming sessions though because I'd volunteered to be "Editor". I'd have to type it up (this is before computers and word processors), add it to one of the binders, and xerox and 3-hole punch enough copies to pass out to everyone to add to their binders the next time we met. We had 4 volumes of house rules after all the years our group lasted! That's what happens when you have 3-4 GMs all contributing to the same campaign world :) Had to xerox 4 volumes of house rules the last time we got a new member. After that is was impossible to recruit new players, because when you hand someone ITL, and Advanced Melee, and Advanced Wizard, and 4 volumes of exceptions to those rules, and say "learn this", well they look at you like you're crazy and then run screaming into the night. That's why I started writing a whole new system from scratch, because it was meant to be less work than maintaining or integrating what had become seven volumes of rules.
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02-12-2021, 05:46 PM | #46 |
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Re: Your all-time top-3 house rules
I've gotten to like straight RAW pretty well for most purposes, but:
1) I don't think I'm ever going to run a campaign without my elemental wizards expansion / houserule set. 2) Learning talents: happens via "Memory Points" (same as the Talent Points someone else mentioned). You get MPs equal to your IQ on character creation. Later you buy them for either whatever your next attribute point would have cost, or 500 XP, whichever is less. This is meant to be a compromise between original and LE rules. 3) Any player who quotes Monty Python and the Holy Grail must eat their character sheet. |
02-12-2021, 08:18 PM | #47 | |
Join Date: May 2020
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My only complaint is the added complexity.... I am always torn on how much is to much when it comes to rules, especially ones like these that are so good. Needless to say I have copied yours for future reference or possible use hope you don't mind. |
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02-12-2021, 08:43 PM | #48 | |
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