05-04-2021, 11:02 AM | #21 | |
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Re: New to The Fantasy Trip. Got questions.
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05-04-2021, 01:05 PM | #22 | |
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Carry, on. Good stuff anyway. |
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05-04-2021, 01:38 PM | #23 |
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Re: New to The Fantasy Trip. Got questions.
My personal take on Death Test is that it is interesting only in as much as it is a tough test of player skill. There is nothing terribly interesting about the layout, the nature of the challenges, the goal, etc. It is all about whether you can not only win tricky team skirmish combats, but win them so decisively and with so little expenditure of resources that you are in decent shape for the next one. In a sense, it is the only part of the TFT Canon that presents the player with a resource management problem comparable to that posed by classic D&D style adventures. So, I like to keep it as a difficult challenge that I'll often (usually?) fail to master. The purest way to do that is to follow all of the guidelines that were in place when DT1 and 2 were written: RAW; 4, 32 point characters; no items beyond a staff; no talents; and good F'ing luck.
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05-04-2021, 06:04 PM | #24 |
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05-05-2021, 03:32 AM | #25 | |
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Re: New to The Fantasy Trip. Got questions.
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One thing for new players to be aware of is that this means even our illiterate IQ 9 tanks, although might be idiotic in other ways, on the battlefield turn into calculating savants. The players running tanks need to reconcile these aspects of their character. |
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05-05-2021, 03:51 AM | #26 | |
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"Sufficiently cruel" -- another great one! An NPC that is known to slaughter even incapacitated enemies will now be even scarier than without this rule. |
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05-05-2021, 04:09 AM | #27 |
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Location: New Jersey
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Re: New to The Fantasy Trip. Got questions.
To find videos of gameplay of a TFT programmed adventure, in YouTube the keywords are "The Fantasy Trip live in the Labyrinth". You can watch live play-by-text game play in the Discord server (a link is in my signature). Current games are being played on ADVENTURE 1 and ADVENTURE 4.
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05-05-2021, 11:55 AM | #28 |
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Re: New to The Fantasy Trip. Got questions.
You can find a direct link to our Live in the Labyrinth show here: https://thefantasytrip.game/resource...the-labyrinth/
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06-21-2021, 11:54 PM | #29 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Glendale, Calif. near L.A.
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Re: New to The Fantasy Trip. Got questions.
Make sure the characters buy Healing Potions ($150, 0.2 lbs). They heal 1 ST of injury or fatigue.
There is a new Healing Spell in the Kickstarter or Backerkit zine called The Fanzine Trip. It is worth having your players Wizards to learn the Healing Spell!!! |
06-22-2021, 06:21 AM | #30 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Pacheco, California
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Re: New to The Fantasy Trip. Got questions.
Somebody swiped the best ideas from here and bundled them up in a Mortality Options article for Hexagram #7. They (whoever they are) show you some of the gauges and dials to adjust the deadliness of your game.
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