"Playng by your own rules" Topic

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

* 100% of the time
* 90%
etc.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

There's rules we wrote and unpublished rules are two different things.

I think I'm 50/50 either way.

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

Less than 10% of the time, I think.

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.

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.

60% of the time.

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

0%, or close enough, nowadays.

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.

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