| SonofThor | 19 Jul 2011 8:50 a.m. PST |
Do you use one of the classic worlds like Greyhawk, Blakcmoor, Mystara, or Faerun? Or from literature like Middle-Earth, Hyboria? Or do you use your own world? |
| 21eRegt | 19 Jul 2011 9:15 a.m. PST |
Own world(s). Mine and another fellows. Although we did do the Lonely Mountain once. |
 Sgt Slag  | 19 Jul 2011 10:08 a.m. PST |
Played "Battle of Five Armies" (Lonely Mountain, with 21eRgmt), but used a different set of rules for that. Otherwise, all of my BS games are based in my RPG campaign world. Another member runs games in his world, in 15mm scale. Greyhawk wars would be fun, but it is too much work to grapple with all of the information Gygax put into it for armies for all of the various countries. Individual battles would take a lifetime to play out the entire war, so it needs to be done at a more strategic level, for total resolution. When playing out some of the larger battles from the Greyhawk wars, I suspect you would need to up the figure ratio from 10:1, to something like 100:1, or even higher, to make the larger battles playable: we might have a couple of thousand, 25-30mm figures, between all of the players in my gaming group, but even if we did have the number of figures needed for 10:1, I doubt we would be able to move so many in a playable amount of time. I typically focus on smaller, manageable battles, rather than ten's of thousands of combatants. I have, however, played in some convention games which fielded 1,000+, 25-30mm figures, total. We had five, or more, players, per side, in addition to a couple of judges to keep things moving. My local group is typically in the realm of 4-6 players, total. ;-) Cheers! |
| religon | 19 Jul 2011 10:19 a.m. PST |
In recent years, I've not identified the world. |
| Mapleleaf | 19 Jul 2011 12:25 p.m. PST |
Don't do any fantasy games |
| mweaver | 19 Jul 2011 1:34 p.m. PST |
My own world – 30+ years of erratic development… |
| Landorl | 19 Jul 2011 1:46 p.m. PST |
I have done Greyhawk and Dragonlance, but mostly I do Middle Earth, or my own game world. |
| Syr Hobbs Wargames | 19 Jul 2011 1:52 p.m. PST |
My own primarily and a bit of Middle Earth since I have a lot of their figures. |
| Mike at Work 2 | 19 Jul 2011 6:10 p.m. PST |
Faerun and Krynn.. and my homebrew world |
| ScoutII | 19 Jul 2011 6:14 p.m. PST |
Sort of a mix of a lot of them. The two worlds that we play in most started out as being based on Dark Sun and Forgotten Realms. Over the years though…they have morphed into things which are not nearly as recognizable as such. |
| cfielitz | 19 Jul 2011 8:12 p.m. PST |
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 Doctor X | 19 Jul 2011 9:27 p.m. PST |
Slighlty modified Faerun. |
| Pictors Studio | 20 Jul 2011 8:00 a.m. PST |
A mix of my own and other fantasy worlds, if someone else's they are often Moorcock's. |
| m4jumbo | 20 Jul 2011 8:32 p.m. PST |
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| tdsharkey | 04 Aug 2011 9:49 a.m. PST |
I use the fantasy / medieval setting of Hârn. I run a somewhat military based RPG campaign, which sometimes results in massed battle. Battlesystem (2nd edition) is a nice, somewhat simple set of rules that allows the characters to be heroic in influence the battle directly. Hârn is a nice setting and is highly detailed. Worth checking out for hardcore FRP gamers. |
