Best Tool for the Job – When would you use TFT/DFRPG/GDF?

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by DAT

For “Tools”, in the Steve Jackson Games tool box, we have:
The Fantasy Trip (TFT)
Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game (DFRPG)
and
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy (GDF)

The “Job” in this case, in general, is dungeon fantasy genre roleplaying games.
But within the dungeon fantasy genre, there are different styles of play.

In your opinion –
When/what style of game, would you use each for?
Why?
Have you actually done so?

I would not use GURPS for anything these days; back when I did like GURPS, I still wouldn't use it for a dungeon-oriented game. (In fact, about 90% of my GURPS games were silly-horror, which, while predating BTVS, captured a similar tone. Such as apeasing Pele by sacrificing Thos. Magnum to her. From TC's chopper, with TC coerced by a Werebear holding his children. The rest were urban medieval.)

TFT doesn't even do dungeons for me.

TFT is, for me, for solo play and/or for surface Sword & Sorcery type games. (My favorite modules for TFT are Master of the Amulets and Grail Quest.)

Think Quasi-Tolkienian races in Conan, Kull, or Solomon Kane's worlds. When there is a dungeon, it's a very clearly purposed place - a tomb or a temple, typically.