"Ruleset That Most Deserves a New Edition: TSATL" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 08 Mar 2025 4:49 p.m. PST |
You were asked – TMP link Which ruleset would you most like to see in a new edition? And in the final round of voting: 30% said "The Sword and the Flame"
17% said "Full Thrust"
12% said "Warhammer Ancients" |
 Old Contemptible  | 08 Mar 2025 9:20 p.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 08 Mar 2025 10:20 p.m. PST |
"Ruleset That Most Deserves a New Edition: TSATL" Topic Yeah, might wanna correct that topic title typo… ;-) |
| 4DJones | 09 Mar 2025 2:23 a.m. PST |
'The Sword and the Lame', that's most of us now. |
| robert piepenbrink | 09 Mar 2025 9:39 a.m. PST |
Oh. I was going with "The Sword and the Lance" and thinking maybe a medieval variant. There are so many, after all. |
| TimePortal | 10 Mar 2025 12:34 p.m. PST |
More variants are available than most people realize. It is like a treasure hunt to find them. So I think a new version with addendum is good. |
| robert piepenbrink | 10 Mar 2025 3:16 p.m. PST |
No, TimePortal! No! A single ruleset no bigger than the last edition, and all the variants are single sheets both sides, or as much more as they need. People keep trying to jam all conceivable information into one volume. You wind up with something expensive, awkward and heavy to heavy to carry, and with the part you need to look up "in there somewhere." And of course given modern binding practices, if you actually use it, the pages will start falling out in about five years. This last drives me nuts. I have volumes of Kipling and Dunsany on my shelves printed while the authors were alive--on low-acid paper, in signatures and sewn. They're good for at least another century. So are my Gregg and Garland Press reprints. Current stuff from St Martin's Press--Jennifer Crusie is a particular victim--is so poorly made I habitually scan bookstores for replacement copies. And my very best single-volume Leigh Brackett is a Gollancz trade paper falling apart as I look at it. I try to read the stories anywhere else to stretch out the book's lifespan to last mine. It's as though we wanted all the books to disappear every ten years or so. |
| TheBeast | 13 Mar 2025 6:21 p.m. PST |
Some of the fan rewrites of Full Thrust are quite good, and Jon is busy enough with the business to have given his blessings to such efforts, though I have always been fine with the Fleet Book I adaptation. Except, haven't met a ruleset I couldn't fiddle with… Doug (who hasn't met a preposition he couldn't make use of… dangling, that is) |
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