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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian11 May 2024 9:00 a.m. PST

How often do you miniature wargame using rules entirely of your own design?

* 100% of the time
* 90%
etc.

Grattan54 Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2024 9:16 a.m. PST

Way back I used to write my own rules. Today probably less than 5 %.

Eumelus Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2024 9:20 a.m. PST

Play rules (i.e. subject my long-suffering club members to) entirely of my own design, probably about 40% of the time. But I nearly _always_ alter and modify other authors' rules to suit my taste and/or interpretation of history – maybe 95% of the time for that.

BillyNM11 May 2024 10:32 a.m. PST

Entirely of own design?
Is that even possible? Surely every rule set will build on something from a previous set, I know mine do.

14Bore11 May 2024 10:55 a.m. PST

Not my rules, but playing solo Empire 40 years wonder how far I have abused them. No idea

Personal logo ColCampbell Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2024 11:53 a.m. PST

Not very often, but our gaming group has yet to encounter a set of rules that we haven't altered to one degree or another.

Jim

UshCha Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2024 12:40 p.m. PST

Nowdays – 100% our own rules.

BillyNM Yes and no – we all write (as far as I am aware so far) in a standard language so already you are building on what has gone before. The use of die is common to may rules does that automatically make them derivative?

Our own rules I would say are ours alone, many of the mechanisms are not common to any other rules, but we use D20m die so some things at a base level are common.

Frederick Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2024 1:05 p.m. PST

About 5% – have some mods for existing rules but only use one set of home-grown rules

Personal logo Herkybird Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2024 3:55 p.m. PST

At our club we play about 40% games using my rules at the mo, others at our club either do 100% own rules or 100% commercial.

Personal logo Sgt Slag Supporting Member of TMP11 May 2024 6:33 p.m. PST

I only wrote one set of rules, Plastic Wars (54mm plastic Army Men game). It's gone through a few iterations. If I had the time, and my interested player friends had the time, we would play it often. Unfortunately, time is hard to find.

If I could, I would play this once each month. Sadly, I have not played it for around five years. I hate small table setups for Army Men games, so on top of finding the time to play, I need to be able to set up multiple tables, to make a really large, fun, gaming area (preferably 12 feet by 20-30 feet), and that means I can only do it in late Spring to early Autumn, out in my uninsulated 2nd garage (requires me to move equipment outside to allow room for the multiple tables setup…). Life really does get in the way of having fun… :-( Cheers!

Martin Rapier11 May 2024 11:35 p.m. PST

We mainly play home grown stuff, although I'll run games with other people's home brew as well as my own. We do play commercial rules too, sometimes.

In the last 12.months, I reckon 75% of the games I've run have been homebrew. I've been playtesting some new Napoleonic rules, and wierd Meta Panzerblitz game played on 1km hexes, as well as tweaks to my existing WW2 rules.

pfmodel12 May 2024 3:43 a.m. PST

IN my case i use commercial rules, or figure game conversions of commercial boardgames. Even the one set of rules which i did create is based on an existing's et of rules. Designing rules and providing the require eco-system is very difficult.

Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP12 May 2024 8:43 a.m. PST

~75%, depending on what counts as a minis wargame…

Andrew Walters12 May 2024 8:58 a.m. PST

There's rules we wrote and unpublished rules are two different things.

I think I'm 50/50 either way.

ZULUPAUL Supporting Member of TMP12 May 2024 3:26 p.m. PST

0% I'm not a rule writer but I have tweaked some rules in the past.

Oberlindes Sol LIC Supporting Member of TMP12 May 2024 3:28 p.m. PST

Less than 10% of the time, I think.

Doug MSC Supporting Member of TMP12 May 2024 4:34 p.m. PST

I tried commercial rules once in my many years of gaming. Have written my own home grown rules for every period and scale I have played ever since.

robert piepenbrink Supporting Member of TMP12 May 2024 6:31 p.m. PST

I don't keep count. I'm perfectly willing to write my own rules or amend existing ones as necessary, but I don't insist on reinventing the wheel if there's a suitable system out there.

Personal logo Old Contemptible Supporting Member of TMP12 May 2024 7:07 p.m. PST

60% of the time.

TimePortal12 May 2024 8:27 p.m. PST

As a game designer from the 1970s, I rarely play other folks rules. Last time was a one on one invitation from Richard Borg to play CnC Napoleonics when it was being laytested. So long ago. Lol

The Last Conformist13 May 2024 10:27 p.m. PST

0%, or close enough, nowadays.

Gamesman614 May 2024 2:26 a.m. PST

I've not found a set of rules that completely address the things I want so I borrowed and created things to solve those issues.

SultanSevy16 May 2024 12:53 p.m. PST

My group probably plays rules that I created about 70-80% of the time, and other rules about 20-30% of the time.

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