Interviewing the Fans #2

[pyratejohn]

Back in the day we did it all - a stand alone combat game, an alternate combat system, and full out TFT:ITL rpging.

[KevinJ]

Originally Posted by Steve Jackson

How did you use TFT, back in the day? Stand-alone combat games, combat module for other RPGs, or a full RPG system of its own?

I ran TFT as a stand alone RPG in my own created worlds. I even ran it during Basic Training using carboard chits with numbers on them instead of dice (we weren't allowed to have dice). I ran it mostly from memory and good times were had by all. Well, better times that normal for basic training.

I'm currently using a house ruled version for a game world made maps for back in the mid 80s (I can tell by the German Graph paper it is drawn on). And the campaign idea of the characters not being human dates from the late 90s. Everything else is new, like the cosmology.

[ColBosch]

Stand-alone combat scenarios, almost exclusively. While I played Ogre for most of my life, my brother and I only got into roleplaying after GURPS was released, so we used that for RPG sessions. But whenever we just wanted some hack-and-slash, we broke out Melee and Wizard.