brettslocum
Just thought I'd start one up to see how it works.
When you join the forum, please send a message telling how you started on TFT.
Just to be fair, I'll start it off.
In the late 1970s, I started playing the Melee and Wizard games from Metagaming. Those microgames and others were great. When TFT came out at GenCon or Origins (I can't remember which), I picked up a copy, along with a TFT tee shirt ("Do it In the Labyrinth"). The best part was it was all for $10. I read it that weekend and loved it. The next fall my friend Bill Seurer was going to start a game, as soon as he finished co-GMing an AD&D game. I joined the D&D game for 2 months, just to make sure I got into his game. When we switched to TFT and a new campaign world, we started playing once a week. Oh my god, we had fun. Then he started a second group per week, and I played in that one too. For the next two years, I played TFT twice a week. Some of the most fun roleplaying I've ever had, and I've had a lot.
I recently tried starting up a TFT game after someone found me on the Internet, and asked me to start one. It didn't last, mostly because I couldn't handle the time, as I was also running a Tekumel game. But, now my Tekumel game has started using Simply Roleplaying!, which has similarities to TFT.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Brett Slocum
