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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #30 on: November 23, 2020, 10:15:54 PM »
Does this game require AR-15's and lots of expensive ammo? Because in the next few years it might be one very popular game! :)
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But it'd be good for people to play through to discover just how short-lived they'd be in a guerilla conflict :)

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #31 on: November 24, 2020, 02:33:54 PM »
We are playing The Night Below converted to run in Castles and Crusades. So far, we are having a great time. We plan to move to Old School Essentials after we finish this campaign.

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #32 on: November 24, 2020, 11:33:02 PM »
Right now, I've got a coffee maker and some plates on it, ready for thursday!
But, you mean - Gaming Table, right?
I lost mine a few years ago, right before the 2016 election. I'm solo now. :( Been reading my old B/X and 1E stuff, and working on a solution to the OSR problem.
Sad, I know! :D
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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #33 on: November 25, 2020, 05:14:22 AM »
Running a 5th Ed ongoing campaign on Wednesdays, an episodic Cthulhu game on Sundays, playing Star wars and 3.5 (will swap out star wars for something else after New Year) . All online at the moment, but at least 2 will revert to FtF as soon as lockdown ends properly and the pub can give us a room again.
 

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #34 on: November 25, 2020, 01:27:07 PM »
Been reading my old B/X and 1E stuff, and working on a solution to the OSR problem.
I'm curious. What's the problem that you are trying to solve?
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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #35 on: November 25, 2020, 10:06:30 PM »
Been reading my old B/X and 1E stuff, and working on a solution to the OSR problem.
I'm curious. What's the problem that you are trying to solve?
Well, it's a problem that I discovered in the early 1990s that seems to emanate from the original LBBs, namely it's combat. D&D's origins is in miniature battles, however Blackmoor and (to a lesser degree) Greyhawk would be considered more as Skirmish battles. That's why there was never any real fusion between skirmish rules and larger scale rules. I'm not as harsh as Jim Dunnigan has been on the maths, but I do find OD&D to be problematic when it comes to a single ruleset. I believe for OSR to grow and not just be a fad or a 'rules for the over-the-hill' folks, a NEW ruleset needs to be developed to fix this problem.
Of course, most people take it for granted that single-man combat rules/to-hit tables cannot transfer to larger non-skirmish battles, but I'm not one of them.
You could say, we can do Fellowship of the Ring, but not the War for the Ring - if that helps to clarify what I'm saying. I am currently trying to find these rules.

EDIT: I should add that I played wargames before I played RPGs. That's why I am currently looking into Rulebooks from the late 60s-70s from SPI/Avalon Hill and comparing them to B/X and 1E's combat rules for group/mass combat (including some Dragon Articles, although I am woefully information-poor with the magazine angle). BECMI provides the evolution, but I'm trying to reverse engineer the manner of thought behind this in relation to Chainmail. I have some tables I've made, but overall, I keep finding myself being led back to interviews about Wallenstein. Which is to say, NO REAL INFO on mechanics.
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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #36 on: November 25, 2020, 11:36:56 PM »
Been reading my old B/X and 1E stuff, and working on a solution to the OSR problem.
I'm curious. What's the problem that you are trying to solve?
Well, it's a problem that I discovered in the early 1990s that seems to emanate from the original LBBs, namely it's combat. D&D's origins is in miniature battles, however Blackmoor and (to a lesser degree) Greyhawk would be considered more as Skirmish battles. That's why there was never any real fusion between skirmish rules and larger scale rules. I'm not as harsh as Jim Dunnigan has been on the maths, but I do find OD&D to be problematic when it comes to a single ruleset. I believe for OSR to grow and not just be a fad or a 'rules for the over-the-hill' folks, a NEW ruleset needs to be developed to fix this problem.
Of course, most people take it for granted that single-man combat rules/to-hit tables cannot transfer to larger non-skirmish battles, but I'm not one of them.
You could say, we can do Fellowship of the Ring, but not the War for the Ring - if that helps to clarify what I'm saying. I am currently trying to find these rules.

EDIT: I should add that I played wargames before I played RPGs. That's why I am currently looking into Rulebooks from the late 60s-70s from SPI/Avalon Hill and comparing them to B/X and 1E's combat rules for group/mass combat (including some Dragon Articles, although I am woefully information-poor with the magazine angle). BECMI provides the evolution, but I'm trying to reverse engineer the manner of thought behind this in relation to Chainmail. I have some tables I've made, but overall, I keep finding myself being led back to interviews about Wallenstein. Which is to say, NO REAL INFO on mechanics.

got a cousin that still runs a game in his town using just basic-companion boxes; for mass combat he essentially takes the axis&allies rules (the strategic world war version not the tactical scale battletech-like version) and adapts fantasy units to those mechanics. Not the most elegant thing but handles huge month long invasions with about 10 minutes of rolling dice and choosing casualties. giants become tanks dragons become bombers etc...roll for inflicting casualties, remove the dead, repeat or retreat.

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in case you are unfamiliar with A&A; it has a large degree of abstraction, a bomber mini is not a single bomber it represents a bomber wing or squadron, a single infantry represents perhaps a whole division, a single round of both sides rolling during a battle represents days or even weeks of fighting, a destroyer mini might represent an escort fleet based on destroyers but with a handful of other ships attached with, a single carrier represents a battlegroup and its escorts or whatever....this is implied rather than official, if you adapt such to fantasy mass combat its worth keeping in mind so that five first person rpg giants do not get counted as 5 giant units but rather as 1; wouldn't want fantasy units to be too OP compared to normal troops.
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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #37 on: November 28, 2020, 07:27:32 AM »
Running a 2+ year DCC campaign. Moved to online (with Fantasy Grounds and Google Meet) at the start of the COVID. I miss playing with figures and terrain, but it can be quicker to develop a session with VTT materials.

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #38 on: November 28, 2020, 03:51:42 PM »
I refuse to play online so I have only been able to play once a month with my BX group.

Almost found a new group, but unfortunately they re-ramped up the lock down restrictions where I live.

Maybe one day I'll be able to run a weekly game.

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #39 on: November 28, 2020, 08:29:26 PM »
Most excellent. I'm running two original D&D games online along with a Classic Traveller game (also online... Covids, Yo!), ...and this is keeping me very busy. PM to receive an invite to observe, or play!

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #40 on: November 28, 2020, 09:06:42 PM »
Lately my group has been playing a lot of board games. None of us really feel all that into running or playing anything since our last 5e experience, and since getting > 2-3 players together at once has been hard (changing work schedules). I've still got the Torg Eternity "Day One" scenarios ready to go, but I'm not really pushing it all that hard.

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #41 on: November 29, 2020, 01:27:15 PM »
Running a 5e Dwimmermount campaign online weekly with 6 players - mostly coworkers. Google Meet & shared documents, owlbear.rodeo for sharing maps thrown together in dungeonscrawl.

I'd recruited 8 expecting a rotating table, but two canceled & so we have a consistent group averaging more than 5 out of 6. Since it's only 2.5 hours on a weeknight I've not been forcing them back to town at the end of every evening, and we're just being relaxed about which characters are present - but if you don't stay back in town, you don't get downtime actions for the week you aren't present.

We're getting a hint of the oldschool feel I wanted by making sure there are about as many experience points for exploration, discovery, and treasure as there are for combat; the players know combat is dangerous and have been willing to negotiate. I don't think they've put the hints together to realise their latest ally is a demon. :)

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #42 on: December 01, 2020, 09:06:54 AM »
My group is online due to everyone working out of town for as while. My state has closed dine in restaurants and theaters. Most public gatherings are forbidden unless it is the lunatic fringe.

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #43 on: December 01, 2020, 09:14:40 AM »
Most public gatherings are forbidden unless it is the lunatic fringe.
Where are you that they make exceptions for the lunatic fringe?

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Re: Current state of your table
« Reply #44 on: December 01, 2020, 09:25:24 AM »
Michigan.