The Fantasy Trip, often abbreviated TFT, is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game designed by Steve Jackson and published in segments by Metagaming Concepts from 1977 to 1980. It grew out of two small tactical boardgames, Melee for man-to-man combat on a hex map and Wizard for magic, and was later expanded with Advanced Melee, Advanced Wizard and the gamemaster guide In the Labyrinth. Its best-known design idea is point-buy character creation: instead of rolling for attributes as in Dungeons and Dragons, a player divides a pool of 32 points between strength, dexterity and intelligence, and skills are bought the same way. After Metagaming closed in 1983 the game went out of print, and Jackson went on to create GURPS, which was strongly influenced by it. Jackson regained the rights in 2017, and Steve Jackson Games released The Fantasy Trip Legacy Edition in 2019.
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is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game designed by Steve Jackson
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published in segments by Metagaming Concepts starting in 1977
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