Roleplaying Games and Wargames (non-REH)

[deuce]

I know we have tabletop gamers on this forum, but we don't have a thread for them. While I quit actively gaming about 10yrs ago, I still enjoy reading about various stuff.

We have a Cthulhu Mythos gaming thread here:

swordsofreh.proboards.com/thread/80/cthulhu-mythos-fiction-games-art

The Conan Monolith boardgame thread is here:

swordsofreh.proboards.com/thread/296/conan-boardgame-monolith

The Modiphius Conan RPG thread is here:

swordsofreh.proboards.com/thread/22/conan-adventures-undreamed-live-kickstarter

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A designer's guide to creating secondary world religions:


www.ragnarokpub.com/single-post/2016/10/28/The-Designer-Guide-to-Secondary-World-Religions


An interview with game designer Jeffrey Talanian:


www.blackgate.com/2016/11/11/an-interview-with-jeffrey-talanian-the-creator-and-publisher-of-astonishing-swordsmen-and-sorcerers-of-hyperborea/


A look at the "Band of Brothers" wargame system:


www.castaliahouse.com/wargame-wednesday-a-ballet-of-bullets-armor-blood-and-sweat/

[robp]

I started wargaming in the mid-70s thanks to a wargame club at my school. I remember the early games were gladitorial combat, two players with the arena being a biscuit tin with some graph paper in the bottom!  From there I got into tabletop, mostly WW2.  There were books by people like Donald Featherstone about, but not much else.  I remember early rule books by people like Wargames Research Group

Then Dungeons and Dragons came out and we began RPG sessions alongside the "regular" wargaming.  Both scenes boomed in the 80s. On the RPG side we played various D&D versions, Tunnels and Trolls, Callof Cthulhu, Traveller, Star Trek RPG, Judge Dredd, Paranoia and many more, alongside games like Car Wars, Star Fleet Battles and others

On the tabletop side we started playing LOTR type battles, I can't remember the rules, I think they were pretty much "home grown". I also got into 6mm scale for the WW2 stuff, which allowed for epic tank battles

Since moving out of London I've not really played at all, though buy the occasional magazine and still have most of my books and figures packaged away in the shed. One day I'll dust them off!

[finarvyn]

I got into wargames and Chainmail rules for miniatures back in the 1970's thanks to a friend who had a father who was a history professor so they had all kinds of historical stuff around the house and a closet full of wargames. When D&D came out we moved on to that and the wargames mostly got left behind. My current group (wife, kids, friends) aren't into wargames but they enjoy RPGs.

I've run games in the worlds of Hyboria, Barsoom, Nehwon and other classics from literature, mostly because those are the stories that my friends and I found in the 1970's. Funny thing is that my current group has little interest in reading those stories, but Howard, Burroughs and Leiber are among my favorite authors.

[Grim Wanderer]

I haven't actively gamed in more than a decade, but I still purchase games to read and hopefully get a game going again. I started in the late 70's with basic boxed set, but moved onto AD&D as soon as possible.

Since then I have played Traveller, Harn, Runequest/Stormbringer, Ringworld, Cyberpunk 2020, Twilight 2000, and several others.

Within the last year I've purchased Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, Dungeon Crawl Classics and Blade of the Iron Throne.

I'm looking forward to the new Conan rpg from Modiphius!

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A lot of people don't realize that Gerald Brom began his career (like so many other modern fantasy artists) at TSR:

[Von K]

That looks like a module for the D+D Gazetteer series. Stephen Fabian did some great internal illos for those.

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[robp]

Nice!

[Grim Wanderer]

I have to show this to my mum.

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The Playing D&D With Porn Stars blog is interesting at times:



dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/?zx=d67e41695f9c1a7e

[Erik]

Dec 3, 2016 9:29:14 GMT -5 deuce said:

A lot of people don't realize that Gerald Brom began his career (like so many other modern fantasy artists) at TSR:

He did all the covers for the Dark Sun setting, and I think it really helped draw in new players to that campaign.  I know it got me and my friends interested.

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An interview with the creator and publisher of Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea:


www.blackgate.com/2016/11/11/an-interview-with-jeffrey-talanian-the-creator-and-publisher-of-astonishing-swordsmen-and-sorcerers-of-hyperborea/

[deuce]

This looks pretty good:


dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/tales-yawning-portal

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A look at the saga of Necromancer and Frog God Games...

www.blackgate.com/2015/11/09/of-necromancers-frog-gods-part-one/

www.blackgate.com/2016/07/11/of-necromancers-and-frog-gods-part-two-the-public-life-of-sherlock-holmes/

[deuce]

I'm hearing good things about this. Not so much about Pathfinder Horror, which I had hopes for:


www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601257929?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393185&creativeASIN=1601257929&linkCode=shr&tag=modappn-20&linkId=GGDOHYJEZ664LDOZ&psc=1