The fantasy trip melee

Designed by steve jackson illustrated by liz danforth and brandon moore. My melee \wizard\the fantasy trip webguide has an awesome array of material including variant rules, scenarios, play aids, and much more. Steve jackson games made an announcement about the fantasy trip at gama and followed up with more info over at the steve jackson games website. It has combat modules melee weapons and wizard spells, with advanced rules, and character generation with talents and spells, monsters, world information, and more in the 176page in the labyrinth book. I became aware of the fantasy trip through its constituents melee and wizard way back in the eighties. In the labyrinth is a website dedicated to the classic tabletop rpg, the fantasy trip tft. A microgame of fantasy combat and the first release in the series. Wizard the magic companion to melee sorcerous combat, in the arena or in the dungeon. The fantasy trip adventure supplement forest lords of dihad.

Each minigame contains its own rules, maps, counters, and three dice. Tabletop simulator kit for melee is now live steve. This is the basic combat system for the fantasy trip. For readytouse adventures perfect for solo or group play, check out death test. The fantasy trip is easy to learn and fast to play but its been out of print for almost 40 years. The fantasy trip character creation, skills, and clarifications v5. The fantasy trip legacy edition pdf legacy edition box including melee and wizard boxes in the labyrinth tollenkars lair. Melee pocket game the box is bigger is the game better. Dx, the character can draw a melee weapon and attack with it on the same round. In the labyrinth a complete roleplaying campaign system.

This week were tackling part 2 of our series on the fantasy trip, battling with the characters we created in last weeks video. The mclee system lets ga111emasters regularize movement and attacks on a ma scale, taking one of the bigge t. This is the basic combat system for the fantasy trip for the basic magic system, pick up wizard. This week were tackling part 2 of our series on the fantasy trip, battling with the characters we created. The fantasy trip is an old school rpg created by steve jackson. Winners become stronger and faster for the next battle.

Downloads, game aids and other goodies for the fantasy trip will be posted here as the become available. This tutorial video talks about handtohand combat in the fantasy trip rpg from steve jackson games. Seven hex dragon has some free pdf character sheets for the fantasy trip. It includes stand alone board games, a complete rpg system and adventure modules. If you own the legacy edition, you dont need this one. The site is intended to be a place for others to find the information i gather about tft from the internet.

Just as i remember, two sets of rules, with dice, player and monster tiles, with two arena sized play maps. The fantasy trip legacy edition is the updated version of a fantasy swordsandsorcery role playing gem from the late 1970s. The fantasy trip is a game system designed by steve jackson i and published by metagaming. It was, according to jackson, borne out of wanting to.

Its an arena game, with historical realism goals for man to man combat. A collection of articles from space gamer and other sources from the 1980s. Tft codex 2000 a compendium of resources for the fantasy trip. The fantasy trip product listing rpgnet rpg game index. Melee, the fantasy trip, wizard leave a comment post navigation. Create your wizard, choose his spells, and go into combat. Create characters in just a few minutes then send them into the arena. Melee is the basic combat system powering the fantasy trip rpg. Its the magic companion to melee sorcerous combat, in the arena, or in the dungeon. This archive had originally been created because the s for the material languished in the hands of someone who was unwilling to work on a rerelease of the material. Melee for fighter combat, wizard for sorcerous contests. Meanwhile, the the fantasy trip rulebooks went out of print and into. Sell meunsell me on the fantasy trip rpgnet forums.

Three copies of the fantasy trip legacy edition plus one pointofpurchase display of melee three copies and wizard three copies. In july 2018, steve jackson games launched a kickstarter campaign to reissue melee, wizard, and a tft legacy edition boxed set with the. Fronted by steve jackson games on behalf of the illuminati, it offers a wide variety of roleplaying games, card games, and board games from many different companies. Both of these games were written by steve jackson currently of gurps fame and at the time they raised the standard of gaming rules to a new level. Starting with melee in 1977, later expanding with wizard which added magical combat, the rules started out as a simple yet tactical set of combat rules. The fantasy trip melee flow chart wip 200329 fantasy trip flow chart 16. Mini melee arena for the fantasy trip dysons dodecahedron.

Over the years, i have been a fanatical collector of microgames from the golden era. Other available games include melee combat with medieval weapons, and the fantasy trip. A failed but not critically failed roll means that the character may still attack that round, but at a dx penalty equal to twice the amount by which the character missed. The game has been out of print since about 1983 when howard thompson, the owner of metagaming, closed the company and jackson was unable to secure the rights to the game. Summon giants, dragons, and wolves to destroy them all. The classic dungeoncrawl adventure tollenkars lair with a fullcolor labyrinth map. Play melee with steve jackson at gary con 2019 in lake geneva. Tft codex 2000 a compendium of resources for the fantasy. Both of these games were later released in an advanced version along with a third set of rules named in the labyrinth many abreviate the three game books as tft for the fantasy trip. Players will find that the me lce system meshes easily with most rule, allowing ta ctical combat to be worked out in a logical manner. Since i have a ledgersized printer, ive been experimenting with maps for the fantasy trip that fit within the 11 x 17 inch page. One of the videos that ive been the most eager to film. After he left metagaming, that company died a quick death and he went on to found steve jackson games and came out with gurps. Steve jackson games forums roleplaying the fantasy trip.

Tabletop simulator kit for melee is now live the fantasy trip. The first tft release, melee, was designed as a quick but detailed. Click to email this to a friend opens in new window click to share on facebook opens in new window. Includes rules, classicsized counters and maps, and three 12mm d6. The fantasy trip character creation, skills, and clarifications v 6. Microgames are far less expensive to design and produce than fullsize games. The fantasy trip tft is a classic tabletop roleplaying game rpg that was first published in the late 70s and designed by steve jackson.

Dungeon, fantasy, hex, hex map, in the labyrinth, maps, megahex, megahexes, melee, steve jackson games, the fantasy trip, wizard these two 600dpi maps are designed to be printed on ledger or tabloid sized paper 11. Discussion of steve jacksons original rpg, the fantasy trip. Melee is a combat system designed by steve jackson games in 1977. Create characters in minutes and battle in the arena. That was followed by the magic game wizard and a set of releases to allow full roleplaying sessions.

The fantasy trip mq4 treasure of the silver dragon. Sorta same bucket as ganesha games song of blade and heroes, and spellslingers and sellswords. This system was later developed into advanced melee, one of the three books of the the fantasy trip roleplaying system. The pdf set is contained in the digital set for the fantasy trip legacy edition. Components this wizard game should contain the following components. Play melee with steve jackson at gen con 2019 in indianapolis, indiana. The book of unlife, by howard kistler, is a compilation of the undead and. Wizard is only one of metagamings fantasy roleplaying game series, the fantasy trip. Warehouse 23 the fantasy trip 2019 postcard contest warehouse 23 is your online source for games and geek toys. As a dueling game, it wasnt much but it was also intended to be the basic combat system for an rpg, the fantasy trip. It came out in 1977 and was one of steve jacksons earliest games. This community is for the fantasy roleplaying game, the fantasy trip, the first rpg written by steve jackson and published by metagaming concepts.

Every thing needed to generate fantasy figures and test their fortunes in a convenient plastic box. Steve jackson, the designer of the fantasy trip, has announced that he has regained the rights to the material hed written for metagaming, including melee, wizard, advanced melee, advanced wizard, in the labyrinth, tollenkars lair, and both of the death test microquests. Advanced melee, tft, the fantasy trip, megaextras, steve. I have removed all info that may conflict with the official steve jackson games material. This is the electronic archive of original source materials for metagamings roleplaying game the fantasy trip. Nov 17, 2019 since i have a ledgersized printer, ive been experimenting with maps for the fantasy trip that fit within the 11 x 17 inch page. The original minigames melee and wizard the books in the labyrinth, advanced melee, and advanced wizard, combined and updated into a single volume of 176 pages, with the index that the original release lacked. The fantasy trip originated as melee, a gladiatorial combat game where players would build characters and fight each other with them. The fantasy trip was steve jacksons first roleplaying game. A fan group for people who love the games in the melee wizardthe fantasy trip line, designed by steve jackson and originally produced by metagaming in the 1970s and republished by steve jackson. Get melee on tabletop simulator youtube tutorial on how to use it isnt hard.