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What is Tunnels & Trolls?

Tunnels and Trolls, for those that know little about it, was one of the very early roleplaying games, and was a considerable departure from the alternatives (Traveller, Chivalry and Sorcery, Dungeons and Dragons, etc) in being rather "tongue in cheek" in its inception. Although we never took the game to the depths explored in the many published solitaire adventures, we did enjoy playing it over a period of a considerable number of years.

From the Author

Tunnels and Trolls, still available from the good folk at Flying Buffalo, was one of the very early roleplaying systems we used to play (I was only 12 or 13 at the time, over 20 years ago at the time of writing this!). I came across some of our game notes in a recent cleanup and thought I might post them to the Web on the possibility of someone finding them useful.

I should point out that some of the material on this site should be taken in the context of both the (young) age and immaturity of the authors at the time of writing. We game a lot differently now! However, I did find these notes interesting in a nostalgic sort of way, so thought others might likewise find that the case...

Site Contents
	Horses and Suchlike [HTML~9K] : At some point, someone created a set of rules for Horses and similar mounts in Tunnels and Trolls. I don't claim ownership of these (I think it was a friend, Matthew Towse, who originally wrote these up). I do claim copyright (as one of the original co-designers - both myself and Matt's brother Daniel contributed), but here they are anyway! Note: Although I've fixed a few spelling errors in the original document, I haven't attempted to fully re-write the grammar in these rules. This is to keep the "original" condition, so to speak.
	Hallowed Glen [zipPDF~148K] : This is a very early adventure (c. 1980) for Tunnels and Trolls that I came across while going through my notes. Here it is, warts and all, for critical review.
	Solo Dungeon Rules NEW! 27th July 2003 [PDF~237K] : Now that I look at these, they are a truly awful, plagiarized (in many parts) set of rules for creating your own solitaire dungeons. I'm not sure what was going through my head at the time, but I do know that ALL the Tunnels & Trolls gamers at my school (and there were several dozen of them) had copies of these rules. And they spread from there as well. Terrifying to look at now...

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