Another Bundle - The Fantasy Trip
Dec. 19th, 2022 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The Fantasy Trip Bundle presents The Fantasy Trip, the first RPG designed by Steve Jackson, in its 2018 Legacy Edition from Steve Jackson Games.
The early game company Metagaming published TFT in installments, first as the combat board game Melee (1977) and the magic game Wizard (1978), followed by In the Labyrinth (1980) and various adventures, including the solos Death Test and Death Test 2 and the dungeon-crawl Tollenkar's Lair. These releases made The Fantasy Trip extremely popular, but when Metagaming went out of business around 1982, support ceased. TFT was off the market for more than 35 years.
In 2017 Steve Jackson regained rights to his work and set about creating a new edition. The July 2018 Kickstarter campaign raised more than US$300K. The 442-page Legacy Edition, released later that year, weighed in at more than eight pounds and contained two mini-games, three adventures, a 176-page roleplaying rulebook, color poster maps, and more. With it, TFT found a new audience. Several more Kickstarters followed, including the Rose Labyrinth Roleplaying Game Adventure Set campaign in progress that adds new TFT gameboards, counters, lore, and scenarios.
TFT is more "cinematic" than "simulationist." The combat system emphasizes speed and ease of play. Melee and Wizard work well as drop-in combat modules for campaigns using other systems. TFT's setting, the mega-world of Cidri, is a huge place that can contain every campaign world anyone wants to create. Magical Gates connect many areas, so travel to distant places is easy if you know the way. The background is unabashedly swords-and-sorcery. Elves are noble, dragons are greedy, and gunpowder weapons are likely to blow up in your face.
This all-new Fantasy Trip Bundle presents a Cidri-sized lineup for an unbeatable bargain price. We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices.
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Fantasy Trip offer's designated charity, the Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program. Each year, the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, amplifies the voices of up-and-coming game designers by featuring them during an expenses-paid visit to Gen Con. The global Emerging Designer Program focuses on creators from marginalized communities.
The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$94. Customers who pay just US$14.95 get all four titles in our Core Collection (retail value $47) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete The Fantasy Trip Legacy Edition (retail price $35), with Melee, Wizard, In the Labyrinth, Death Test 1-2, Tollenkar's Lair, and tons of extras (plus the free O is for Octopus coloring book and the Postcard Contest Winners 2019); David Pulver's solo adventure Red Crypt (retail $6); and two play aids, the Labyrinth Planner (retail $3) and Deluxe Character Journal (retail $3).
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $24.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with four supplements worth an additional $57, including The Fantasy Trip Companion (retail $11), TFT Adventures Volume 1 (retail price $25), The Book of Unlife (retail $15), and Hexagram issue 1 (retail $6).
This is a fairly new incarnation of a venerable fantasy RPG, but doesn't seem to have changed much in its general rules. However, the rewrite puts together a lot of material that was previously published as stand-alone modules, and integrates it to make the system more coherent. Selling points are speed of play and points-based character generation, which were both big advantages in the early days of the system; even today it's probably well worth a look as an alternative to the better-known fantasy systems, and is easier to learn than many of its rivals.
