"Lessons from Running a Large Napoleonic Participation Game" Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Jul 2019 12:47 p.m. PST |
"Running a large convention (aka participation) game can be a daunting task. However, if a dolt like me can do it, so can you. Over the years I have learned, and in some cases relearned, several lessons that I will now bore you with. You'd better go get a coffee as the caffeine jolt may be needed to get through this meandering discourse…"
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robert piepenbrink  | 20 Jul 2019 7:04 a.m. PST |
Yeah. My own first "large Napoleonic participation game" was 50+ years ago with 4,000 30mm castings 20 players and two Size Humongous tables. Thinking back, the senior people involved would have agreed with most of your thinking. I think the major differences were (a) that they expected players in a game that size to already know the rules, and (b) rather than do-overs, green players were under the supervision of veterans, so things were caught at the map-marking/order-writing stage. |
| DOUGKL | 20 Jul 2019 7:53 a.m. PST |
Good stuff for aspiring GMs. |
| Tango01 | 20 Jul 2019 12:14 p.m. PST |
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paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
