"Fictional Gaming - ala The Major General" Topic

For those who recall, do you do games similar to the Major General style games (less the 'down the rabbit hole' elements that sometimes shown through – unless you are that kind of rabbit)?

I think the games from that site were perhaps the most fun style of gaming I've encountered and I'm hoping to get something similar going.

Just curious, folks. How says ya'll?

Do you mean games like this? link

If so, then my answer is 'Yes'.

I certainly do. I confess it with some trepidation, but I think I'd be more interested in recreating the film Gunga Din than replaying Isandlwana, or Maiwand, or Abu Klea. If memory serves, that's what the guys at MGTremordan's site did.

My colonials are in 54mm, so that's a difference, but otherwise I've always enjoyed the Major General's approach--essentially fictitious powers going at it with a good deal of whimsy thrown in for good measure. I remember their games including more technology than I use (didn't they use WWI vintage planes and autos pretty frequently?), but I always loved their sense of fun. That site and the Red Shadow influenced me a great deal with how I approached the genre: if only to show it is okay to tweak history and not take things too seriously.

"…I've always enjoyed the Major General's approach--essentially fictitious powers going at it with a good deal of whimsy thrown in for good measure."

Jack Scruby pioneered these types of games back in the 1960s. For some reason, certain periods work well with this approach. I love these types of games with or without too much whimsy.

That's what almost all of our Victorian colonial gaming is. We've done a Green Nile campaign that included the Pass of Madness in Aooghastan and a battle against the Yazooloos. I've had several linked games in the Vale of Khalam in the North Central frontier.

Jim

I too fall right into that type of gaming.

My old pages: link

The partial liberation from a historical settings makes for a wide range of possible games without needing to concoct too much of a back-story.

I focused mostly on the late Victorian age, with much inspiration from literature as well as movies. Games like Space 1889, and even the classic "Sword and the Flame"

Like in the move "The Wind and the Lion" imdb.com/title/tt0073906
I like using actual nation states and forces, but in fictional conflicts. But including "Imagi-nations" and fantastic VSF equipment grew in my gaming over time.

But this approach to a gaming setting could as well be applied to almost any historical setting.