Reply To: Any minimalist thematic rules sets for wargames like OSR for RPG’s ?

[jeffersonpowers]

For several years I’ve been on the hunt for a good set of “one size fits all” generic skirmish rules, without any setting or genre attached to them, mainly so I won’t have to keep learning (and struggling to remember) new rules sets every time I want to switch to a different genre. It’s been a surprisingly difficult quest.

The closest I’ve found is Crooked Dice’s 7TV, which is a fun rules set that accommodates a wide variety of genres. The only thing I don’t like about it is the lack of codified rules for creating your own character profiles. The game comes with tons of different miniatures-agnostic stat cards, with the idea that you should be able to find one that’s close enough, and you can swap out one or two things to fit, but that’s a little too vague and unconvincing for me. I want to be able to create new, balanced units from scratch, using a list of options like you would when creating a RPG character.

Lately I’m coming around to the idea (posed by Gerry, if I recall correctly) that generic rules are too…generic, and you are better off using a set of rules that have been designed specifically for the genre you want to play. He’s probably right, but that leads us back to the original problem I was trying to solve, that of struggling to learn and remember too may different sets of rules…

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