making etc.tgz, ${DESTDIR}/var/games/phantasia/{characs,scoreboard} isn't
found. Very odd as in phantasia's Makefile, there specifically is:

FILESDIR=/var/games/phantasia
...
# don't overwrite existing characters or scorefile
.for file in characs scoreboard
.if !exists(${DESTDIR}/${FILESDIR}/${file})
FILES+=${file}
.endif
.endfor

Those files live in src/games/phantasia/OBJDIR, don't exist in
DESTDIR/var/games/phantasia and are not installed there either (!)
Taking the snippet above outside of /usr/src and doing a make -n install
shows it doing the right thing...

Cheers,

Patrick