Post by mormonyoyoman on Sept 27, 2017 19:57:18 GMT -5
It's been suggested that we start a sub-forum for another game which is Old School (and never left the Old School) but isn't what anyone (except me, perhaps) considers part of OSR. Heck, we haven't decided just what OSR means anyway. And that game is the ever-present Tunnels and Trolls.
TnT has some different rules, some of which players and gamesmasters follow. When they feel like it. But TnT isn't the rules. Even now in its 9th or 10th edition (Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls is the title, which avoids the edition numbering controversy completely.) the rules haven't strayed far from the first, really badly printed (in ditto) edition.
TnT is more of an attitude. It's a healthy disregard for rules and downright antipathy towards rules lawyers. It's whatever moves the game forward or backward, but by George let's MOVE it. When I sit down for Traveller, RuneQuest, HeroQuest, Castles & Crusades, or even a variation of D&D (except 5ed) I'm playing TnT - even if I'm playing under a different ruleset.
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Now looking over the sub-forum list, I see a BIG ol' stack of other games already taking up space and putting their feet all over the furniture. (We asked them to take their shoes off, but found their feet tracked MORE muck!) So, at least for now, we'll try to keep any specific TnT talk in this thread. There is, after all, a Trollbridge out there if you want an entire forum.
I've also been asked, once or twice, for the URL of that there Trollbridge - and it's trollbridge.proboards.com
Come on over sometime. You'll see Piper and me there, and a couple others whose aliases escape me. Possibly because their feet ruined the couch. But it's part of their charm!
TnT has some different rules, some of which players and gamesmasters follow. When they feel like it. But TnT isn't the rules. Even now in its 9th or 10th edition (Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls is the title, which avoids the edition numbering controversy completely.) the rules haven't strayed far from the first, really badly printed (in ditto) edition.
TnT is more of an attitude. It's a healthy disregard for rules and downright antipathy towards rules lawyers. It's whatever moves the game forward or backward, but by George let's MOVE it. When I sit down for Traveller, RuneQuest, HeroQuest, Castles & Crusades, or even a variation of D&D (except 5ed) I'm playing TnT - even if I'm playing under a different ruleset.
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Now looking over the sub-forum list, I see a BIG ol' stack of other games already taking up space and putting their feet all over the furniture. (We asked them to take their shoes off, but found their feet tracked MORE muck!) So, at least for now, we'll try to keep any specific TnT talk in this thread. There is, after all, a Trollbridge out there if you want an entire forum.
I've also been asked, once or twice, for the URL of that there Trollbridge - and it's trollbridge.proboards.com
Come on over sometime. You'll see Piper and me there, and a couple others whose aliases escape me. Possibly because their feet ruined the couch. But it's part of their charm!
