Reply To: [unofficial Weekender] One ruleset to… well, rule them all?

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Keep bicycling! I’m retired, so walk twice a day for an hour or so around the neighborhood to keep the back problems away.

I do enjoy thinking about rulesets, particularly coming up with ones that are alternatives to rolling dice. Walking gives me time to think about them. Never act on them, because, when I get home, I have those mini’s to paint. 😛

From the thread title, I thought the question would be about our Holy Grail of rulesets. (: Might be worth a question in a later Weekender. Here’s what I’m looking for in a ruleset:

* Uses my existing miniatures: Ends up being generic fantasy.

* Solo play: Give me time to interrupt the game and paint miniatures.

* Campaign narrative: Five Leagues from the Borderlands is as close as I’m getting.

* Magic: Sellswords and Spellslingers is looking good, although Fireballs dominate the game.

* Create your own units: Song of Gold and Darkness lets you create your own units, using a point system.

* AI: Sellswords and Spellslingers cheats (: by having Event cards throw bad guys from out of nowhere, so there’s no AI that you can outsmart.

Might give Lasting Tales a shot, then Altar Quest, although I don’t expect them to have what I’m looking for in a “one set of rules to rule them all”.