Over 30 years ago a company called Metagaming released a small set of miniature combat rules simply named “Melee”. Shortly afterwards another of these “Microquest” games was released and was named “Wizards”. Both of these games were written by Steve Jackson (currently of Gurps fame) and at the time they raised the standard of gaming rules to a new level. Both of these games were later released in an Advanced version along with a third set of rules named “In the Labyrinth” (many abreviate the three game books as TFT for “The Fantasy Trip”). Shortly afterwards (due to a variety of reasons) the company folded. At that time this game had a large following and many of us “older” gamers still have fond memories of it’s simplicity of design and ease of use. I personally think nothing better has come along after these many years. In fact there is a large fan base that would love to see this game republished.

It is with this in mind that I offer my tribute page to this great little game in the hopes that older gamers might rediscover it and new players might discover it for the first time.
A few months ago I was looking at the original versions of the Advanced Fantasy Trip covers and I wondered what they would look like if they were updated. So I knocked out this quick sketch based on the older art. I used a few Reaper figures as models, made the orcs a little more aggressive, and altered the wizard to a more traditional fantasy mage. My intent was to get away from the 1980s look of the origional. Regardless, a quick experiment just for the fun of it!

-David

10/23/2011

Added a new cover sketch to the front page. Haven't updated the site in quite some time, perhaps I'll have to generate some new material!

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