Wow, glad I found this, I started play T and T back in the 70's (yes I'm that old) gave my first addition to a friend and never saw it again. While I don't really RPG anymore it's great to have a copy of the game that I first cut my teeth on, for sentimental reasons if nothing else. Great game, easy to play, can be as simple or as complex as you want, but above all fun. My 5th. addition also went to a friend I had a bad habit back in the day.

This is a faithful reprint of the original edition of T&T, the one that broke out in 1975.

To be blunt, I prefer 5th and 5.5 to this edition. I got it to see how different it was from 5th, and it's not terribly so, but it's also got some very singificant differences. Rogues are slightly different. All saves are on Luck. The weapon list is shorter, and the weapon dice are slightly lower.

There's a good reason the game has lasted, and while this has most of that, it's not the 5th ed I love.

It's everything I remember from the late 1970s & early 1980s. Great RPG, simple, engaging, doesn't take itself too seriously.

As a reprint it's a perfect 5/5, it's a direct conversion to PDF, with all the original layout and illustrations. Plus a one page comment from Ken St Andre. The main text is not searchable, that's the only drawback I can think of.

As a game... Let's just say the world of RPGs has seen a lot of development since 1975. I got this mainly to explore early RPGs. I played it with my group in one hectic weekend morning and we had a lot of fun. And then we agreed that that was enough. I can't seriously see myself, or anyone, playing a full campaign with this ruleset today. (Though I presume some people did just that, in the 70s.) As a piece of RPG history it's perfect, but don't expect the rules to be balanced/lean/make sense.