"The Attraction Is in the Action!" Topic

I'd have said 'sometimes' rather than 'rarely', but it's close enough. Because I sometimes play campaigns.

I've played a few minis games campaigns, but it's ages since the last time.

I've run several 2e BattleSystem fantasy games based on events from my RPG games. It is tough because the RPG sessions are played far more frequently than my miniatures battle games, so the RPG tends to race way ahead of the battle games.

I had a civil war in my RPG game, which I had hoped to play out a series of battles from. Got one session played out, then never got back to it -- the RPG group fell apart, life carried some participants away, and the war games died on the vine, so to speak.

Other times, I've set up a battle within the RPG, which took place without the Player Characters' involvement. It was still a hoot, even though I did not have the figures needed for the armies represented, for many a year. I finally played it out, as I had envisioned it within the RPG: a wooden fort within a hilly region; Dwarves attacking the Hobgoblins within the Fort. It was loads of fun for the people who played in it, even though they had no stake in the RPG sessions from which it was derived.

Basing my fantasy wargames on events taking place within my RPG campaign makes for far more interesting scenarios, as many of the wargames players have played in my RPG's in the past, so they often recognize names and locations represented within the tabletop war game. Cheers!

I used to do this a lot. Things changed about 20 years ago and have not played that way since.

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We run a few campaigns, emphasis on the "few"

You know, it's a perfectly valid question and even a good poll question in that it's wargaming-related so the answer has some significance. But the title is so off-subject I keep looking for something else. "The attraction is in the action" as opposed to what? Dioramas?

While I have taken part in campaigns, it's been a very long time. They tend to be bad battle generators--in the sense that they generate bad battles. If your focus is on the campaign, play Diplomacy--or Risk--and add complications to taste. Me for the tabletop battle. I never want to hear again "well, no, it's not much of a battle on the tabletop--but it's important to the campaign!" Fat lot I care.

Outside of RPGs, which were always campaigns, I've never played a miniatures game campaign. They require too much commitment.