History TabletopGame / TheFantasyTrip

* BlobMonster: Slimes were a favorite enemy.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Dwarves are straight out of the Tolkienian mold. However, some details (mostly concerning dwarf women) are left unspecified, meaning that players can form [[HouseRules their own conclusions]].
* {{Precursors}}: The Mnoren.

* TabletopRPG: One of the oldest around.

Unfortunately, Metagaming went out of business only a few years later. Steve Jackson tried to buy the rights to the game, but instead went on to his new company, Steve Jackson Games, and wrote a set of rules that was, more or less, ''The Fantasy Trip Advanced''.

On December 26, 2017, [[http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/2017-12-26 Steve Jackson announced he'd finally reacquired the rights]] to the eight ''TFT'' releases he'd written himself (''Melee'', ''Wizard'', ''Death Test'', ''Death Test 2'', ''Advanced Melee'', ''Advanced Wizard'', ''In the Labyrinth'' and ''Tollenkar's Lair''), and in July-August 2018 there came [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjgames/the-fantasy-trip-old-school-roleplaying a Kickstarter]] for a boxed set including all of the releases.

* ReTraux: One of the achieved stretch goals for the Kickstarter campaign was Pocket Box edition of ''Melee'' and ''Wizard'', a format Steve Jackson Games hasn't used since the 80's. It even has the same sort of primitive, two-color cover art of the early PB games.

On December 26, 2017, [[http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/2017-12-26 Steve Jackson announced he'd finally reacquired the rights]] to the eight ''TFT'' releases he'd written himself (''Melee'', ''Wizard'', ''Death Test'', ''Death Test 2'', ''Advanced Melee'', ''Advanced Wizard'', ''In the Labyrinth'' and ''Tollenkar's Lair''), with future plans as yet undecided.

Despite being out of print for almost three decades, ''The Fantasy Trip'' still has a cult following. Its rules are viewed by its fans as a more elegant version of ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'', as the rules were very simple and focused on fantasy. There have been conversions to other settings on the Internet.

* WeakenedByTheLight: In his errata for the system in ''Magazine/TheSpaceGamer'' #29, Steve Jackson said that the reason that slimes live underground is that they die if exposed to daylight.

Tropes:

* TabletopRPG

''The Fantasy Trip'' was Steve Jackson's first RolePlayingGame. Starting with ''Melee'' in 1977, later expanding with ''Wizard'' (which added magical combat), the rules started out as a simple yet tactical set of combat rules. When ''In the Labyrinth'' came out, the rules expanded to a full-on RPG — one of the earliest [=RPGs=], along with ''DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''[[TabletopGame/TunnelsAndTrolls Tunnels & Trolls]]'', in 1980. For a while, ''The Fantasy Trip'' was the second-best selling RPG of all time.

Despite being out of print for almost three decades, ''The Fantasy Trip'' still has a cult following. Its rules are viewed by its fans as a more elegant version of ''{{GURPS}}'', as the rules were very simple and focused on fantasy. There have been conversions to other settings on the Internet.

Unfortunately, Microgaming went out of business only a few years later. Steve Jackson tried to buy the rights to the game, but instead went on to his new company, Steve Jackson Games, and wrote a set of rules that was, more or less, ''The Fantasy Trip Advanced''.

* {{Precursors}}: The Mnoren.
* TheMovie: Not a movie, but the almost unknown ''Tomb of Terror'' video game from 1985 used the base mechanics.