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I never played any of those, mirocu. In general terms, they are all considered RPGs, although if I'm correct, we can't create our own characters, correct? QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Apr 1 2020, 05:33 PM) ![*](style_images/tower/post_snapback.gif) QUOTE(SubRosa @ Apr 1 2020, 02:24 PM) ![*](style_images/tower/post_snapback.gif) They’re super cute. I sometimes feel bad for slaughtering them. They are super-mean, though! Did anybody else get involved with The Fantasy Trip? This was a table-game similar to Dungeons & Dragons, but its rule system was a lot more down-to-earth. Humanoid characters were more fragile and fallible. No humanoids with hundreds of hit-points, for instance. ![nono.gif](style_emoticons/sinders/nono.gif) We used DnD to enhance TFT, because DnD had hundreds more characters and additional rules. But for our base game (the actual dice-rolls) we used Fantasy Trip. We even made our own rules! I added Feudalism to our game after learning about it in high school. IN a way, this was the very first version of modding our game. This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 2 2020, 07:07 PM
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SubRosa |
Apr 2 2020, 07:17 PM
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QUOTE(Renee @ Apr 2 2020, 01:01 PM) ![*](style_images/tower/post_snapback.gif) Did anybody else get involved with The Fantasy Trip? This was a table-game similar to Dungeons & Dragons, but its rule system was a lot more down-to-earth. Humanoid characters were more fragile and fallible. No humanoids with hundreds of hit-points, for instance. ![nono.gif](style_emoticons/sinders/nono.gif) We used DnD to enhance TFT, because DnD had hundreds more characters and additional rules. But for our base game (the actual dice-rolls) we used Fantasy Trip. We even made our own rules! I added Feudalism to our game after learning about it in high school. IN a way, this was the very first version of modding our game. ![biggrin.gif](style_emoticons/sinders/biggrin.gif) I vaguely remember The Fantasy Trip. I never played it though. I did have the Melee microgame it started from however. Back in the day when I started gaming we did D&D, but like you guys, a heavily customized version. The entire magic system was overhauled into a mana point one, where you had a total mana or karma (for cleric spells), that was your level x Int (or Wis for Clerics). Each spell cost mana, and only when you were out of mana could you no longer cast spells. Pretty standard stuff in video games these days. But way beyond standard D&D. I can see where you are going with your definition of an RPG. I agree with most of it. I think it is a murky subject at best though, and something subjective to every gamer. I think a lot of people consider an RPG to be a game where you have skills or talents or powers, or whatever, that you have to choose from as you level up. Typically there are too many for one character to take them all. Where pure action games like Doom never bother with any of that. You just have stuff like guns or armor or powerups you pick up. A lot of times when people say a game has "RPG Elements" they mean it has a level system and multiple ways of building a character. A lot of action games tend to add in RPG-lite stuff like this. And a lot of RPG games tend to go more for the action, and a first person viewpoint. So the line between the two can be really blurry. I remember the old school RPG games were typically 3rd person isometric, often with an entire party, like the Baldur's Gate games. Or Kotor.
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