The Fantasy Trip/Melee/Wizard

So many years ago there were a couple of "microgames" published called Melee and Wizard, being small games dedicated to simple melee and magical combat respectively. I have actually copies of these two games, along with a couple of the related "microquests" as well. What I don't have is a copy of The Fantasy Trip (TFT)/Advanced Melee/Advanced Wizard (if anyone has these and is willing to part with them for a reasonable price I'd be willing to discuss further!). That being said, I'm wondering if anyone recalls these games and/or has access and interest in playing them on Roll20. I'm primarily interested in taking these simple games and using either TFT for a full-fledged gaming system and/or expanding on Melee/Wizard to create a customized, yet simple, system for full-fledged gaming. These games were quick and simple and I remember having a lot of fun running them. Who knows, maybe we could create arena events and other fun stuff using this simple system.

I've had some of the copies of these forget which ones, still might in my collection. Seems to me they were pretty obscure back in the day, even more so now. For dirt simple into, I like Tunnels & Trolls or basic D&D.

If you look on Ebay for the Melee and Wizard microgames, they're going for $40-$50 each...and I think I bought them for like $5-$7? The whole "system" was somewhat obscure, even back then, you're right, but they were still fun. I'm more interested in starting with a simple system like this and customizing it with a group of others interested in creating "our own" game, if that makes sense. I have the old basic DnD sets as well, those might be a place to start, we'll see. I've pondered building my own system, but that takes a lot more time and effort...lol...I'm not lazy, players are generally leery of such games because of the "unknown" or "does it work" factors, etc.

There's a simplified version of TFT at <a href="http://www.thefantasytrip.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thefantasytrip.org/</a>.

Yeah, I had seen that. Hard to imagine simplifying TFT though. ;)