Weekender XLBS: Crafting Our Own Tabletop Games! What Would You Create?
July 15, 2018 by dracs
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Happy Sunday!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀
Happy Sunday!!
Bollocks, it’s only 05:15… Going back to sleep, watch you later!
I’ve been thinking of designing a game set in 1930’s Shanghai, because during that period there were criminal gangs, local police, spies, adventurers and an assortment of dubious characters. You also had various countries competing for intelligence and political control, as well as nationalist and communist Chinese groups operating in the city. I’m currently toying with the idea of an RPG style narrative skirmish game. Where you take command of one of the many factions vying for control of the intelligence and criminal activities in the city. This would be played as a campaign that takes you from the 1930’s… Read more »
I think the idea is a great one buddy, with a lot of potential to expand out using the political intrigues to other areas as expansions.
I’m currently researching the period and some of the more well known personalities that were known to operate in the city.
Happy Sunday I work on a game called “WuXia”, based on Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial art heroes. There are a lot of games based on Japanese culture, Samurai are everywhere, I missed the Chinese culture a bit, so I decided to do my own game. Actually the only thing I´ve got is a basic idea and concept. It should be a small duell game where two fighters duell. We all know the movies and the catchphrases “My Praying Mantis style beats your Monkey”, so I´m thinking about a card driven draft mechanic for the game. Each combatant… Read more »
Sounds interesting buddy, have a look at the Bushido mobile phone game. It is hex based and uses a variety of character types which although set in Japan may help with inspiration and ideas.
Happy Sunday… @dracs my approach to a militia/mob style army which I used for my Saga Scots was to divide the figures into five groups of figures with each group having one of each pose in it. I had five groups of figures I then picked five different Army painter primers. In my case Grey, Brown, Green , Yellow and Blue. I then blocked in all the flesh, weapons, etc when that was done I used the Army Painter Strong tone dip brushed on from the can. Once dry this was given anti shine.i then based up the figures. This… Read more »
As it is well after 1am over here I have yet to watch, but combining RPG with skirmish wargaming on the tabletop sounds like the perfect job for Savage Worlds RPG. The core rules came out of their Deadlands: The Great Rail Wars miniature skirmish game and were refined for an RPG. They also have a free set of skirmish rules called Showdown that allows for skirmishes without the need of a GM. That said, they are in need of an update and if you are wanting more of the RPG in your skirmish then the core rules with a… Read more »
Of course if you are wanting fantasy you could probably get away with D&D…3rd was it? I hear it was almost a skirmish game itself.
4th Edition – but yeah that might work as there are power cards for each of the different characters to use etc. Could maybe morph something out of the system there and use the monster profiles and build something out of that @rbwgames
Happy Sunday all you beautiful beasts 🙂
Fully with Sam on the gaming thing – love the urban fantasy setting (in all it’s many book, games and TV forms – though not Twilight). So he gets my vote. (Series you may not have read Sam, that may interest you – Alex Verus series by Benedict Jakka, Kate Griffin’s ‘Mayor of London’ 4 book cycle (starts with A Madness of Angels, Mike Carey’s Devil You Know 5 book cycle, and though not straight urban fantasy – the Kim Harrison ‘Hollows’ series. And I even like and would recommend the YA ‘Mortal Instruments/Shadowhunter’ series, though have only read the… Read more »
Happy Sunday all! 😀
Happy Sunday 🙂
Yay more hobbits!!
Also @brennon it’s always best to leave rimming an otter until last… always 🙂 awesome project
@dracs if you’d like more colour on your hobbits it may be worth using GW brown wash thinned down with medium, it’ll give detail to all the shadows but won’t dull the colour so much. They all look great BTW!
There used to be the combination of Battletech the miniature s game and the Mechwarrior the pen and paper RPG.
Personally I love anything robot, (PHR army in DZC, Heavy Gear Blitz, Battletech Alpha strike and hopefully Adeptus Titanicus, all scratch that mecha itch)
I have a few Gunplas and I watched all Gundam series and a good bunch of other mecha series and OVAs
@storminwolf have you had a look at the white dragon miniatures. They have some really nice 15mm sci-fi infantry with various mech support. No game but still really nice.
Not yet, I will but intro to keep it all at 10 mm for these as that is DZC and heavy Gear, battletech is all over the place between 6-12mm but usually works well with 10mm. Another different size is not really something I want 🙂
@storminwolf You might want to look at the Reaper CAV stuff. That’s all 1/144
Yes the CAV stuff is not bad 🙂 There are a few good manufacturers for 10mm, it is beside 28mm and 35 mm the only size I keep terrain for. Except space stuff, but an asteroid does not care if you use it in X-Wing or in Full Thrust or BFG ^^
Happy Sunday all 😀 .
I’d open the ” old ” project when adding stuff to an existing army.As @dignity has bought an expansion ( what was it by the way ? ),it would be strange to see them in a separate project.
Happy Sunday, the subject today got me thinking would it be possible (or even a good idea) to have a game a bit like command and conquer, without the resource gathering, but have all the base building on a tablet, so at the end of each round it would tell you which new units you would get and you could order construction for later turns. All the fighting happens on the table top but anything you move off your opponents table edge degrades their base
Loved Armoured Core.I would be very happy if a PS4 version dropped in the future.
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Happy Sunday! For the connected series of games/campaign for Justin’s zombie apocalypse game, then look no further than Two Hour Wargames’ All Things Zombie, Final Fade Out! Has all the elements that Justin mentioned and particularly suited to collaborative and solo gaming. Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.
My ideal game would be a mecha game, RPG with miniatures, probably 10 mm, something Gundam or Heavy gear Blitz style, where you have Roleplay and intrigues and different factions and players on foot, vehicles and mechs, and such… Probably better left to a computer rpg 😀 But it would just be amazing on a miniature level. I did like the tie-in approach GW used to have with kill team > 40k > Epic > BFG for campaigns. So I think my ideal game would be actually several games tying into each other. The old Warhammer Quest with Mordheim, WHFB… Read more »
You could probably do this with Drop Fleet Commander
Happy sunday. @brennon Do you know frostgrave. I actually never played it, but from what you discribe, this could be your game. @dracs Well using your idea. How a about a midsized town. Lets call it “Monstertown” or “Sunnydale” (,who gets the reference). Filled with people/monster who pretend to be people or are monster. Add crazy killer, monsterhunter and other weirdos, who pretend to be normal. Well i dont know a rpg like that, but why not. Like you play a normal guy, who moves in this city with this strange name, and you neighbor are behave very strange. Like… Read more »
I get that reference.
Might want to think of another name unless you want to risk Joss Weadon sueing you @andre77
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Frostgrave might be a good shout although I want a way to try and flesh the characters out a bit more @andre77 – it does work very good for solo play and they have included a lot of cool character archetypes within that game.
+1 for Sunnydale reference.
@brennon thanks for the GB! The models are nearly all perry sculpts so 28mm. Another great XLBS weekender, keep it up 😀
No problem man – love the models and can’t wait to see more.
Just FYI, if want flowers for your basing, nobody does it better than these guys (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hugeminis/scenic-grass-tufts-and-flowers) While the link is to a KS, the product will be available on the website of the KS creator in August for everyone.
@Justin — How is your idea different than “Detective: City of Angels” (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vanrydergames/detective-city-of-angels/)
Happy Sunday everyone, Strange that we have actually done this, what game would you make for real, for one of the lads in our gaming group, Mark. From his passion we came up with the Mythos game. Took a long time and a lot of work which we are continuing with now but it was definitely worth it and we have learned so much from the process. As @dignity knows I am a huge mecha fan, I will clarify that a little though and say that I am much more military mecha fanboy. I love schematic designed mechs that have… Read more »
Happy Sunday,what about Bolt Action/ Battlegroup type game but set in the future, but with the twist of an alien race is supporting the axis and the last remnants of a destroyed alien race comes to support the allies too after there homeworld was destroyed by the alien race supporting the axis so could include space battles. I can see the 40k Orks are the invading axis race and the Tau come to support the allies. Me thinks I will be thinking more on this!