"Converting Clue Into A Wargame" Topic

I will be running a game at Historicon this year titled "Who Killed Julius Caesar?" and it is based on the board game Clue (or Cluedo in the UK). The game is on Friday night at 7PM, Event #900 and runs for one hour.

Clue features six suspects and six possible murder weapons and 8-9 rooms in the mansion where the crime takes place.

I substituted player tokens with 60mm miniature war game figures. Instead of different rooms in a mansion, I have a Roman city with nine different buildings. So the players will travel from building to building searching for clues rather than going from room to room .

I created Clue cards for six Roman characters, taking a picture of each figure and then gluing it onto a playing card fashioned from cardboard. I did the same thing for the six weapons and the nine buildings. I used Latin names for the characters, the Latin equivalent word for the weapons and the buildings.

From there, the game pretty much follows the rules of the board game, except now everything is three dimensional. This really enhances the game and is good looking as well. We have played the game a number of times and it always creates a cracker of a game in under one hour.

Here is a link to my blog with more pix and details
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Here are some pictures of the cards that I made for the game:

And here is the game board recreated as a 3D wargame table top of buildings:

There are six slots available for this game and I hope that you will consider signing up for my game. I would be honored to have your participation in my game.

Here is a link to my Historicon games in the Table Top Events game sign up system.
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I hope to see you there.

Now let's go out and have some fun!

That us fantastic!

This looks like it should be a blast!

Jim

Wow, what a cool idea!

Nicely done

Sweet beans!

Gaius in the Taberna with a pugio.

Last night's game was Marcus the Butcher in the Temple with a finiculus.LOL

Sister St Lawrence would be so proud of me for how I'm still finding my Latin useful.

Having been influenced by these things, Caesar not only picked up his impediments, but also made a march to the camp of the Belgae.

I wondered where those Roman civilian figures were going to show up! Reminds me of my high school history teacher reading us "Who killed Big Julie?" Which--thank you, Youtube!--bore a strong resemblance to "Rinse the Blood off my Toga."

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"All right, Brutus, you're going up the Tiber for a long time."

Well, given all the blood, I deduce that we can rule out rope as the murder weapon.

"Urbani, servate uxores: moechum calvom adducimus.
Aurum in Gallia effutuisti, hic sumpsisti mutuum."

English translation sung to the tune of "Far above Catuga's waters…"

Well my dear, it looks like Mr OFM is an educated man. Now I know I don't like him.

(kidding of course)

It does sound like A great little game.

OFM, I reconginzed the tune, but not the lyrics. Our version was
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(It's more inclusive now than it was when they threw me out, of course. Most things are.)

Is movement still variable, by dice roll?

That is an awesome adaptation!

Hmmm… not as tricky as the original, having ony 6 rooms— which probably works better for a light convention game.

But we all know that no matter what, Brutus was an accomplice!

Et tu, Alte?

Gather about me men who are sleek and fat.
Jim has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

Gentlemen, I suggest you look up Suetonius' narration of Caesar's men singing bawdy songs in his Triumph.
Latin can be quite bawdy.

Parzival: actually there are nine buildings rather than six in my game.

Next you need to run a Kill Caesar game using the same figures and scenery but with the Kill Dr Lucky boardgame rules. Rewriting the failure cards for Roman flavor should be particularly fun.

Actually the Kill Caesar game should of course be run first.

Robert

I was thinking of Medicus Fortunatus too!

I suggest that the crime was committed by all of them, with knives, at the Curia of Pompey in Rome.

That is very creative
But there is no appearance by my Friend in Rome, Biggus Diccus.

This is both a very cool idea, and a great set of terrain. Hope that you have a great time running the game.

Will those with three years of Latin, but who will have forgotten 99% of it have an advantage?
Asking for a friend.

Here is a short video that I just posted on You Tube showing the set up for the game using historical miniatures.

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Having a Yuengling, eh? 👍🍺🇺🇸

I always thought it was a Chinese beer like Tsingtao, Yanjing, and Laoshan, but it was actually founded by David Yuengling from Wuerttemberg, Germany. It's America's oldest brewery, founded in 1829.

And it's the beer of choice in Pennsylvania. Particularly at Lancaster conventions. 👍🍺

Looks great!

Der Alte Fritz, I have never met you nor had the honor & fun of playing in one of your games, but I've lived vicariously through your GM efforts over the years and your original concepts combined with excellent execution never cease to amaze me. Thanks for sharing this with the rest of us. Man… I wish I was going to Historicon!