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Post by asaki on Sept 28, 2018 17:23:23 GMT -6
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Post by DungeonDevil on Sept 29, 2018 10:35:25 GMT -6
T&T is popular in Japan?!? That's new to me.
It would appear that I've got most of the titles in the bundles, so...I beat them to the punch.
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Post by asaki on Sept 29, 2018 14:52:18 GMT -6
I've had a bunch of them in my DriveTruRPG wishlist for a long time, but for one reason or another, never got around to buying them. I'm actually surprised I didn't double-dip on anything, because I already have a 4th edition PDF, and a physical copy of 5th (not 5.5 or whatever though).
Previously, they had a Catalyst bundle with Mercenaries Spies & Private Eyes + Adventure #1, all of the CityBooks, and a bunch of Grimtooth's Traps books. Some really cool system-agnostic stuff.
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Post by bigjackbrass on Sept 29, 2018 16:48:14 GMT -6
T&T is popular in Japan?!? That's new to me. It's been a favourite over there since at least the eighties: I saw the edition they had then, which was based on the 1986 Corgi paperback. And if you mention T&T in a hashtag on Twitter it will likely get a lot of retweets and response from Japanese fans. |
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Post by DungeonDevil on Sept 30, 2018 16:41:22 GMT -6
T&T is popular in Japan?!? That's new to me. It's been a favourite over there since at least the eighties: I saw the edition they had then, which was based on the 1986 Corgi paperback. And if you mention T&T in a hashtag on Twitter it will likely get a lot of retweets and response from Japanese fans. Cool. You would think that huge East-West cultural differences would make a pseudo-Mediaeval fantasy RPG much harder for them to fathom. Then again, I'm no expert. The more, the merrier, as they say... |
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Post by bigjackbrass on Oct 1, 2018 1:40:49 GMT -6
Cool. You would think that huge East-West cultural differences would make a pseudo-Mediaeval fantasy RPG much harder for them to fathom. Then again, I'm no expert. The more, the merrier, as they say... Japan's martial and chivalric period lasted rather longer than in the West, so I don't think they'd have trouble grasping the essence of it; and of course it's not like the game ever went into great detail about society and setting prior to the deluxe edition. T&T also drags in creatures and particularly weapons from all sorts of cultures (your average weapons list for mediaeval fantasy rarely includes Indian punch-daggers or the sharks teeth terbutje sword of the Gilbert Islands), so in some ways it was probably more obviously open to a foreign audience, just as the inclusion of the famously humorous spell names have license to people to let their hair down and not take it all too seriously. And let's not dismiss the dearth of other games available in Japanese at the time. |
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Post by asaki on Oct 1, 2018 7:51:07 GMT -6
You would think that huge East-West cultural differences would make a pseudo-Mediaeval fantasy RPG much harder for them to fathom. JRPGs like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy had to get their inspiration from somewhere. T&T was said to be a huge inspiration for the Ultima games, which were said to be a huge inspiration for JRPGs...so it's not too difficult to connect the dots =) They've had D&D in Japan for a long time, too. I know I've seen photos from some of the books (I think they might've been the B/X books?), and they were filled with manga-esque illustrations. Similarly, when Dragon Quest was brought over to the US as Dragon Warrior, all of Akira Toriyama's artwork was relaced with much more "Western" looking art. PS. We never had the Midieval ages in America, but we manage to fathom well enough  Not to mention, all of the sci-fi bits, and Oriental Adventures. Edit: I was close, they were from Rules Cyclopedia, published by Mediaworks: originaleditionfantasy.blogspot.com/2017/08/3-volume-rules-cyclopedia.htmlThere's an older Japanese set from Shinwa, but it's a translation of the Mentzer books, with no changes to the art or layout. Interestingly, while looking it up, I stumbled upon a factoid that Record of Lodoss War was based on a D&D campaign the creators had been running. Neat! |
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Not to mention, all of the sci-fi bits, and Oriental Adventures.