Minis and RPGs: Thoughts on new directions?

[Paul Czege]

Hey Bob,

Check out Jared Sorensen's http://memento-mori.com/games/poa.pdf">Points of Articulation, an action-figure roleplaying game.

Paul

[Bifi]

Then there's ... Confrontation which is slowly moving towards a traditional RPG.

And not only that, they are now releasing a mini-based RPG called Cadwallon (that's a free city of thieves and mercenaries in the world of Aarklash where Confrontation and Ragnarok are being played).

[kaikatsu]

My first time playing DnD was a 3.0 sorc -- and the people I was playing with had an absolutely beautiful set of pewter minis, and a gridded chalkboard for a gameplay table.  I had a lot of fun with it.  Any enemies there were no minis for instead got the paper cut out treatment.

I've found miniatures can assist combat games a LOT -- sometimes it's just important to know WHAT is happening WHERE.  They make ranged weapons seriously useful, and they give players instant knowledge.

We had a good GM for handling the issues of how much information could we see, and as a party we didn't ever spread out too much, so it worked rather well, even for DnD.

I think that, as a general rule, paper cut outs and chalk work just as well as well as anything else.  Miniatures are nice, but in the end, at least for the gaming we were trying to do -- the tactical lines drawn in chalk and the scrape of the unpainted figures on the board was more than enough for me.  Imagination turned the rest into reality.

[Ron Edwards]

Hi everyone,

Let's close this thread now. If folks want to discuss miniatures' role some more, please start new threads.

Best,
Ron