The Legacy Edition

My box came today with my Legacy Edition box of The Fantasy Trip!  So excited to start playing around with it!

First Full TFT Character

I didn't own the In the Labyrinth rules back when I was a kid.  So I have only made character using the Melee and Wizard rules.  Even then I preferred warriors to wizards so I mostly built heros.  Thus, this is my first full build using the full TFT rules.

Marcus Valerius Corvus

St 11

DX 12 (8)

IQ 9

MA 6

Short sword 2-1

Javelin 1-1

Dagger 1-1

Chainmail / Stops 5

Lg Shield/    Hits

Talents:

Sword, Shield

Carpenter, Literacy, Pole Weapons*

Alertness

*Edit:  With input from Yongi on MeWe I decided to replace Thrown Weapons with Pole Weapons.  He pointed out that without Pole Weapons Marcus would be throwing his javelin using 4 dice.  Thanks Yongi.

The OSR News

James Smith, of the "Dreams of Mythic Fantasy" blog, writes a weekly column called The OSR News.  It's a roundup of newly published products, reviews, blog post spotlights and news.

It really helpful, cool and he puts a lot of work into it.  You can find the posts here.

Descending Armor Class

You learn something new everyday.  I didn't realize that this was the origin of descending armor class in original D&D.  It's explained here at the Playing at the World blog.

Originally it was intended that you needed to roll 20 - AC.  So AC 2 needed an 18 or higher.

Blades & Black Magic Now Out

It's been a really good year for fans of The Fantasy Trip.  First we get a reissue of The Fantasy Trip itself and C.R. Brandon publishes the long awaited Blades & Black Magic.  Blades & Black Magic is a swords & sorcery offshoot of of Mr. Brandon's Heroes and Other Worlds which is itself is a descendant of TFT.  So, I'm a happy man.  Blades & Black Magic will be my first purchase of 2019.  (What?  It's here already?)

A Brand New TFT Adventure

It's here!  The first official adventure for The Fantasy Trip in decades!  What?  Me excited?  The description says that The Chaos Triads by Steven Marsh is a 12 page, GM run adventure in PDF format.  It goes for $5 at Warehouse 23.

This is supposed to be the first in a series of adventures to support the upcoming release of The Fantasy Trip reboot from Steve Jackson Games.  I actually don't know why I'm as excited as I am because there are good adventures already out there.  Dark City Games has been making quality solo adventures that are compatible with TFT for years.  It's probably just that it's official and that it heralds a resurgence in TFT.

Needless to say I will buy it soon.

Greg Stafford

Greg Stafford passed away.  This saddens me.  I have never met or interacted with the man or played Runequest or any of the other games derived from it.  However, he holds a special place in my gaming heart.  The first RPG I played with my now 18 year old son was Prince Valiant, written by Stafford.  I tracked down a used copy about 12 years ago because I had heard it was a good introductory game for kids.  Mr. Stafford, through his game, created special memories for my son and me and for that I thank him.