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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games,net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Looking for a new game...
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Date: Sun, 3-Jul-83 12:22:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  3 12:22:48 1983
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I agree with Jon Biggar.  The "Fantasy Trip" (which is comprised of
"Advanced Mele", "Advanced Wizard", and "In the Labyrinth") is by far
the best FRP game on the market.  It is better than AD&D, D&D, Basic
D&D, T&T, Traveler, DragonQuest and RuneQuest.  In fact, only RuneQuest
comes anywhere close.  I don't like RuneQuest as much because it is more
complicated (too complicated) without added realism and is generally not
as fun.  The only problem with "The Fantasy Trip" (besides a small but
important combat rule flaw that is easily fixed) is that the rules are
not as organized as they could be.  This is not Steve Jackson's (the
designer of the game) fault, though.  He was screwed by MetaGaming.  In
fact he left MetaGaming and formed his own company mostly because of the
way that they screwed him with the "Fantasy Trip".
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                                Doug Alan
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