“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” — Bill Moyers   Most Fantasy Trip players — and most gamers in general — try to make their characters are effective as possible, tweaking their options and choices to maximize their capabilities. This leaves little room for background talents that […]

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” ― Helen Keller Lately, we have been thinking about adventure design for The Fantasy Trip. While it might be a very old game for some of us, since its re-release […]

“The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.” — Grant Morrison Fantasy fiction — from the Connecticut Yankee to the D&D cartoon — is filled with tales of people from present-day mundane worlds being transported to different dimensions to fight monsters, save damsels, and live a life more […]

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain   For as simple as it is, combat in the Fantasy Trip has a lot of facets. Movement, facing, weapon choice, talents, and attack choices make each combat […]

“We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren’t acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst.” — William Hill It might be a little late for Halloween, but lately we’ve been thinking about vampires in the Fantasy Trip. Unlike most legends and […]

“Happiness is a place between too little and too much” – Finnish Proverb This is normally the time of year when we are preparing for an annual gaming convention trip and looking forward to spending a few days wallowing in TFT and other nerdy pursuits. Unfortunately, scheduling and an ongoing […]

“The monsters were his friends, and guarded him.” ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame In the original Fantasy Trip, there were a lot fewer restrictions on what race of character you could create — centaurs, giants, and reptile men were all on the table. There was a strange (and […]

“All armor has its weaknesses. That doesn’t mean you should stop wearing it.” ― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry’s Code   While poets and the populace might swoon over the image of a mounted knight in gilded plate riding through verdant grasslands, it’s far more likely to find a warrior scrambling through […]

“All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.” — Leonardo da Vinci Wizards are often bookish sorts, more comfortable among scrolls and tomes than out in the ‘real’ world. But some […]

“Life is a magic, God is the magician” — Hansrajvir   There has been a persistent effort over the years to create rules for priests and religious figures to cast their own magical spells. This undoubtedly comes from the traditional class in Dungeons & Dragons (which many players, ourselves included […]