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Reply To: A good alternative to Age of Sigmar ?

July 7, 2021 at 11:09 am #1661582

limburger

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@ugleb you are spot on about the GW fans (or fans of any system) … which is why I think 9th Age is not an option.

Of course it won’t be easy, because if it was then there would already be one out there, wouldn’t it ?
Although there probably are dozens of rulebooks out there that barely get any recognition, because AoS is such a dominant system.

Part of the problem is that Fantasy (and Science Fiction) as genres are incredibly tough to promote as you need to sell people on the lore before you can tell them the rules. This may be why generic versions feel so bland, because they have no visuals to use and very few have an artist that can compete with the top tier products in the field.

Another aspect is that I don’t really know what I ‘need’ from the rules.
All I know is that I want as few ‘special skills’ per unit as possible and at the same time I want rules that allow factions to have a distinct flavour. Magic should be in there, but at the same time a non-magic faction should be viable somehow.

So first I want to get an idea of what is out there and what shape those things are.
From what I’ve seen the rather ‘amateur’ / old school art & layout of some of them is a real downer.
I get that not everyone has the talent or resources to do those things, but it’s not making it easy to see past the exterior.
“A Song of Blades and Heroes” is a perfect example … because ye gods is it ugly to look at.