Your House Focus: Inside vs. Outside the Labyrinth

[Sinanju]

My gaming group spent relatively little time exploring labyrinths. From early on, we had a whole world to explore--and we did. We could (and did) travel to distant lands based on ancient Greece, Rome, the Vikings, Egypt, Arabia, China or Japan, plus the more-than-occasional lost city in the desert or jungle. (Can you tell the GM was a huge fan of the pulps?)

We traveled constantly, getting a lot of our combat experience in random encounters between planned adventures. We accumulated allies and enemies along the way, at least until they died--though the major villains had an annoying tendency to make dramatic comebacks (I did mention the GM loved his pulps, right?).

[JLV]

Originally Posted by Sinanju

My gaming group spent relatively little time exploring labyrinths. From early on, we had a whole world to explore--and we did. We could (and did) travel to distant lands based on ancient Greece, Rome, the Vikings, Egypt, Arabia, China or Japan, plus the more-than-occasional lost city in the desert or jungle. (Can you tell the GM was a huge fan of the pulps?)

We traveled constantly, getting a lot of our combat experience in random encounters between planned adventures. We accumulated allies and enemies along the way, at least until they died--though the major villains had an annoying tendency to make dramatic comebacks (I did mention the GM loved his pulps, right?).

If you want to recreate some of that with the new version (and assuming you don't have the original notes from way back when still available) allow me to strongly recommend the GURPS Classic splat books on each and every one of those! PDFs are available (and one or two might be available through Print-On-Demand by now) over at Warehouse 23, and they are some well written source books! (You can ignore any stats, or even convert them to TFT without too much of a hassle...)

[Sinanju]

Originally Posted by JLV

If you want to recreate some of that with the new version (and assuming you don't have the original notes from way back when still available) allow me to strongly recommend the GURPS Classic splat books on each and every one of those! PDFs are available (and one or two might be available through Print-On-Demand by now) over at Warehouse 23, and they are some well written source books! (You can ignore any stats, or even convert them to TFT without too much of a hassle...)

Too late! (The GM of that long-ago game is still GMing, but alas is 3000 miles away.) I have a long, long bookshelf full of GURPS books, including all those region/culture books, so I have all the background gaming material I'd ever need.

My intended TFT campaign world will be less epic in scope anyhow. More like a Mediterranean area campaign.

[KevinJ]

The PCs in my game have explored exactly 2 Dungeons so far in the game. 95% of the game has been spent exploring the Taboo Lands to find clues about the stirring of magic in the world. They started with a 400+ year old map and have been filling in details since.

Of the 2 'dungeons'. one had a Silver Slime in it and the other had a bunch of goblins inside. They are searching for Irudez-Bal, which is the hidden city of the Sorcerer-Kings who brought about the Magic Apocalypse some 400 years ago. Now that will be a LABYRINTH...