tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post3264590403207983777..comments2024-03-07T13:47:29.810+00:00Comments on Lloyd of Gamebooks: My Tunnels and Trolls solosStuart Lloydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15100216520313336932noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post-52166978899080320632014-04-17T17:59:05.912+01:002014-04-17T17:59:05.912+01:00Thanks for including my solos Stuart :) Thanks for including my solos Stuart :) Scott Malthousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12028866803584444828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post-543812279489808952014-04-13T17:02:48.287+01:002014-04-13T17:02:48.287+01:00Tunnels and Trolls has a lot of fast and loose bit...Tunnels and Trolls has a lot of fast and loose bits, such as random languages, a system that positively encouraged obsence dice rolls (if you roll a double/triple score, roll again and add that to your double/triple which can be done ad infinitum which counts for all 2d6 and 3d6 rolls, including character creation), nonhumans getting obscene stat changes like dwarves having x2 strength etc. And that's not counting the fact that most solos just ignored some rules leaving you to make it up. There is no list of talents, so you decide if you have a relevant one or not. I have attempted to tighten this up and I think 8th edition will try to do this too.Stuart Lloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15100216520313336932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417337570309175061.post-70181847320328526282014-04-13T16:07:32.288+01:002014-04-13T16:07:32.288+01:00I never really got on board with T&T. I'm ...I never really got on board with T&T. I'm not sure why. Certainly, I never managed to get a T&T RPG group up and running. I played through two or three solo adventures. 'City of Terror' - I think that was the title - was probably the first sandboxy gamebook I played, and that was great fun. You got to fight dinosaurs and the god of time and whatnot. But it didn't have any mechanism to prevent exploitation of loops in the text. So, for young Paul, that was ripe for abuse. 'Double your lowest stat, you say? Great, let's play through that section a dozen times!'<br /><br />As an RPG, for some reason it just didn't jive with me. The version of the rules I had included Warrior-Wizards as a fourth player class, and you were allowed to play as a fairy and various other races. Also there was a long table of languages, so that your character could start out speaking, say, 'Cetacean' or 'Pachyderm'. A bit silly.<br /><br />So yes, fun, but I never fell in love with T&T. I discovered Herbie Brennan's Monster Horrorshow RPG around the same time, and I probably spent more time with that, even though I've rarely come across a more basic RPG.Paul Grestyhttp://pwgresty.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com