Cult Of Games XLBS: Should RPGs Make For Good Skirmish Games?!
July 4, 2021 by avernos
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It’s the XLBS Show………………..Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs!
So @fcostin if your moving, will we be seeing you in the Riverhouse Studio soon, (well, once it starts being used on a regular basis again)?
You lucky dog @avernos What a great-looking book set for ‘Degenesis’.
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Well DONE to the Golden Button Winner! From sculpting to electronics added into a miniature, and then Ultimate Kit Bashing! WOW Great work folks.
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I think that RPGs can easily be converted to skirmish games. Sometimes that is exactly what we’ve done in some RPG campaigns. If there is a large amount of fighting to be down by the players who may have added lots of NPCs to their troop (as canon fodder usually) converting to a skirmish-style of play makes things move better. I think for me it goes back to the early days of D&D when the books were still in the little pamphlets and one of those was ‘Swords & Spells a supplement of miniature rules for use with the original D&D set. It provided miniature-scale battle rules compatible with D&D rules but for scaling up with the number of minis on the field.
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I agree with @brennon Borrows and Badgers needs an RPG! My wife and I have been saying that for some time now.
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What have I been doing this week….. I’ve been working on the first of my ‘Moonstone GKG’ that arrived this week! Great stuff. I’m addicted now. I keep going back to the internet in search of more miniatures. I’m finding that not many, (or I’ve not found them), shops in America that carry ‘Moonstone GKG’. There are a few, but many are telling me that they are between shipments. I shall persevere.
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@avernos you must sit very still while reading. I myself do not sit still while reading. I am pretty sure I would have scooped that little bugger up and moved him to the window or some other place. We have black widows and brown recluses around here so, better safe than sorry!
Happy Sunday!!
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Happy Sunday, is Degenesis that great yes it is, but its still not better than the GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE.
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Not all RPGs are combat based to turn into skirmish games ( e.g. Tales from the Loop). Even if they are they usually have some other puzzle aspects to them that are difficult to reproduce.
If you want to fight a skirmish in that world just dig out suitable minis and ruleset and knock yourself out. You don’t have to wait for anything official!
I think it depends on your philosophy as regards whether the mechanics are a big part of what makes the setting appealing, or whether the setting is just an aesthetic that appropriate mechanics can be spliced into.
Personally I think that a game is going to be more compelling if the design of the world and the mechanics are integrated in some way, so if you’re adapting a setting into a new genre there may be something lost in translation (especially since a big part of what makes RPG combat interesting is when you consult with the DM to advise that you intend to do something that there are no specific mechanics for by using an ability in an interesting or unusual way. With skirmish games you just can’t really foster that level of creativity, though you have the benefit of the game being more consistently fun without having to trust that your group of friends isn’t filled to the brim with total wankers)
Degenesis looks amazing. Not sure if I would ever have a chance to play the RPG but I’d be well up for reading the background – seems like there’s enough story to keep you occupied for a while…. Oh and I notice that Scale 75 have made 3 75mm minis….
Oh yeah and a big ten four on a skirmish game. I’d go all in!
Fallout Wasteland Warfare is a fantastic translation of the video game RPG. Adventure skirmish is the way to go!
Now ben must make a Mo-Ben figure!!!
I might have to tinker on HeroForge…
Happy Sunday Everyone. Good luck with the move Free hope it goes grand for you guys. I saw a advert once that said the average person moves 6 times in a lifetime, I’m up to 26 but got a great place now and a kitten of all things so a move always seems never ending but once your settled it’s SO worth it. Recently decided to start a guard army just to get a game….sort of happened, I went with Vangaurd 6mm as I love the work and they are a great bunch. Also I was thinking I could possibly add some minis from brigades range eventually.
My friends and I have had a RPG group going a while with D&D but it sort of tailed out just before lockdown. I was in hospital recently so a mate brought over a ton of comics because in his words you don’t have a choice your getting into these. So I have a load of Alien to read through today. We were talking about D&D and how it tailed out so showed him the Free League Alien page….so maybe RPG is worth another go it seems 😉
I have a board game night booked this week with family, we are going to give mansions of madness a try so very much looking forward to that. Great golden buttons well deserved and hope everyone enjoys what’s left of the weekend.
Yay let the XLBS hilarity begin.
Ben is kisa-susi? LOL
Happy Sunday. Gerry – Wolsung started as RPG and turned in to Skirmish game in excellent way.
‘Morning all and a Happy Sunday!! Many thanks for the Golden Button for my (attempt at) sculpting piece. He finally has a name – ‘Diabhlaí’ the faerie kin. Which comes from (one of) the Irish words for mischief ‘Diabhlaíocht’. I really am happy with how he is coming along for my first attempt at sculpting. I think the scale is 1/5 or maybe 1/4….. not really sure!! Making an armature this morning for his pipe whci am going to sculpt on stream later this afternoon. @avernos the hat wont be stitched but sculpted as a seperate piece once I have finished and baked the head so I can then use that as a blank for the hat. I think i need to make some texture stamps up as well…… no idea how to do that so to the YouTubes I shall go!!
Ooh you’ve jumped into tale of the unexpected?
Blinky the six million bulbs man.
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Stargate. That IP would have been perfect for a mixture of RPG/ skirmish miniatures game. The Stargate series was a great example where things can always get worse by fixing the current problem. Killing Ra led to the rise of Apophis, the rise of Anubis, the Ori, etc, etc. Exploring the Pegasus galaxy led to the war with the Wraith, more replicators and other humans, etc,etc.
Stargate had a D20 RPG but the fast speed of combat would be better suited to a skirmish combat miniatures game.
Happy Sunday!
Congratulations to more fabulous button winner’s.
Good show this morning especially as whilst listening to it managed to put a dent in the painting the 2nd Regiment of Confederate Cavalry for Epic Battles.
As for Role playing games, most of the ones I played in the day did become mini skirmish games, in fact our original 1st edition D&D went up to full pitched battles!
Likewise with our Empire of the Petal Throne RPG.
Lol fab show guy’s Gerry is Spidersman?
Ben how about underworld the wars?.
Fable would make a great moonstone style skirmish game. I want hobb miniatures
Spiders. How still are you sitting while reading @avernos that spiders take you as a building foundation? XD
Thinking of games that my need to be done: Has there been done a game with animals? And not like Burrow and Badgers or as pets or even this game from the front page show where dogs and cats just wear stuff? A real game of *just* animals. Armies of ants fighting other ants or so?
I’m not an RPGer – not since moving out of Nottingham, and away from my CoC group in the 90s – but I’m open-mouthed at that Degenisis box. The production values are frankly absurd and I’m very here for that.
Happy Sunday.