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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9689256" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Alpha, not Beta.And I can see the lineage; it's lineage is through the T&T CRPG as much as the TT... when we see advancement, I suspect a 7/7.5/D mode. I'm not surprised at all by the switch to a count-successes model; given that combat rolls can easily hit 6d, at which  point expected successes are just over 3.The issue I see before play is that the odds of setback (fumble) increase with ability; if that's not fixed after playtest, I'll house rule it. But that's the only houserule I can forsee for me.I met T&T in about 1984/'85, thanks to Peter (of Boscos), back in HS, using 5th. I adopted 5.5 when it came out in  2005, tried 7th and 7.5, and 7 alt, like deluxe... But I still prefer 5.5 to 7/7.5/D and to 5.0.I've never run 1/2/3/4th but have 1st and 4th in rerelease PDF. it's fair to say I'm part of the old guard... But I see promise in this alpha. I see several issues: no faeries, no leprechauns... at least not yet. And the rolling for Kin, Path, motto: those should be pick or rollThe above mentioned setback issue.As for no Khazan/Lerot'rah/Fang/etc... they were never mentioned in core until 2005, and that only in an appendix. As for Trollworld: as a setting, it had maps on the early editions, but no prose to go with. Just the races list and two continents in vague maps.5.0 didn't even have the maps.Until 2005, the setting had nothing but maps in core rules, and then it had a timeline and some currency discussion.It wasn't until 2017 that there was prose in a core rulebook about the setting.The setting really first comes together in a useful form in 1990, with the videogame, T&T: Crusaders of Khazan. I've played it. It's interesting, but it's divergent from the core TT Game combat mechanics.So, unless you were into the solo adventures, or hanging out with Rick, Ken, Steve, Liz, and/or Bear, you probably weren't using the canonical adventures. My own campaigns never used the official setting; only my solo play. And we don't know that the "gods of Khazan" won't show up in T&T:ANA in the beta nor release.Hoping to get it to table this week.</blockquote>

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