Editing Tales of Arcadia (section)

=='''Introduction'''==

Tales of Arcadia is a generic tactical miniatures [[wargame]] which allows you to create armies of any setting to combat the armies of any other setting. Traditionally, these settings are all taken from video games, be they popular or obscure. Before the game begins, players buy units (with options) up to an agreed-upon point limit, which all players obey. These units constitute a battle force. A battlefield is then agreed on and all players place their units within their deployment zones and then the game begins.
Tales of Arcadia was created by a few dozen individuals on /tg/ and distributed among its creators via e-mail. It is not widely distributed, even to this day, because of a desire among those that originally made it to keep the game from people that would plagiarize the mechanics. 

The old rules are slowly slipping, though, and more people are getting copies of the game, as well as the TXT file "sourcebook" unit lists that were made by many (read: all) of the old guard during the earlier editions. The rules listed below are very barebones, but will get the average player up and running. With any luck, some people will add more army lists and rules, especially the keyworded abilities, to the lists below. Nudge nudge.

It is notable that ToA began as a combination RPG/wargame, and it is still entirely possible to use the old character advancement rules with the newer editions, which have eliminated this section to focus on the wargaming aspect.