Mastodawn

Flipping through the quickstart of the new edition of #TunnelsAndTrolls that Rebellion Unplugged is #crowdfunding.

Its just so weird that they bought #FlyingBuffalo and this game... just to make a new edition with zero DNA, with the prior game, outside the name.

Especially since for the first 7-8 editions of the game. Felt like one unbroken continuity. The game has been backwards compatible since it released in the 70s.

New unrelated setting, new tone, new mechanics. Even the spell names were tossed.

Seems like they would have endeared folks, if they had at least hired a few old artists like Liz Danforth, or new folks who could have gelled with that old style, to at least create visual continuity with the older editions.

AT the same time Ken St Andre, who created the game has really calcified in his old age, and is embracing AI slop on all of his new projects. I dont know a traditional new edition from him would have thrilled me.

#ttrpg #NotDnD

Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI Dec 7

« A tunnel, then... a troll. », 1980

by Liz Danforth (American artist, born 1953)
Advertising illustration for "Tunnels & Trolls" 5th edition, published in #WhiteDwarf #18, Apr/May 1980

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #LizDanforth #tunnelsandtrolls #roleplaying #TTRPG #FRPG #FlyingBuffalo #Troll

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Contrarian Jul 16, 2025

So, the late Rick Loomis shepherded us through a round of practice games, then ran a three-round bracket. I won't say I was better at playing #LostWorlds than the other newbies, I was just less worse.

And that's how my name got on the #FlyingBuffalo Trophy Wall.

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Contrarian Jul 16, 2025

#LostWorlds was one of the classics I'd never played, so I signed up for a learn-and-tournament event held by the game's publisher, #FlyingBuffalo Inc. I assumed I'd go out of the tournament in the first round.

It was supposed to be a 64-person tournament. Only about eight people showed up, and most of us had ever played the game before!

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mx. mark argent Aug 13, 2023

everything is d10-based instead of d6, there are #Traveller-like lifepaths, combat is more fine-grained and more lethal, but the bones and muscle are so close to #MSPE that it goes in my #TunnelsAndTrolls stack, not the #FASA stack.

I don't feel strongly about the #RenegadeLegion setting as presented in the book. the overwhelmingly powerful fascist New Roman Empire vs fractious human and alien polities feels like very early Baen Books, if you catch my drift.

#rpg #MilSF #FlyingBuffalo

mx. mark argent Aug 13, 2023

last month i went out to 2nd & Charles and traded in a bunch of stuff for bunch of other stuff, like this copy of Legionnaire, the #RenegadeLegion #rpg from 1990 that #FASA apparently farmed out to Mike Stackpole and Bear Peters and got back a gnarly #MilSF-tuned version of #MercenariesSpiesAndPrivateEyes!

#MSPE #TunnelsAndTrolls #FlyingBuffalo

Jon Hancock Mar 21, 2023

There's a discussion over on the T&T Trollbridge forum about third party publishers being asked to remove their products by Webbed Sphere, the somewhat unfocussed new owner of Tunnels & Trolls and many other former Flying Buffalo lines. Not quite the level of WotC trying to revoke the OGL, but still:

https://trollbridge.proboards.com/thread/4243

#RPG #Games #Publishing #TunnelsAndTrolls #FlyingBuffalo

Anyone else had their 3rd party T&T stuff taken off DTRPG? | Vin's T&T TrollBridge

Hi all I had an email from the admin at DrivethruRPG saying they were deactivating my pay-what-you-want Ferverax GM adventure until Webbed Sphere can discuss new licensin