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Design Journal: Age of Penda and Chainmail
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Design Journal: Age of Penda and Chainmail

20 July 020224 August 02022

I’ve played a few games of Daniel Mersey’s Age of Penda now, and I am completely hooked. Intrigued. Fascinated! (Here is one on the Wargame

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More History of Chainmail

20 July 02022

from Playing at the World by Jon Peterson http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-precursor-to-chainmail-fantasy.html http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-conversation-with-len-patt.html http://thecollectorstrove.com/gc-iv-bodenburg/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Bodenburg

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Campaign Design – The Scouting Game
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Campaign Design – The Scouting Game

13 July 020224 August 02022

In Tony Bath’s book, How to Set Up a Wargames Campaign, he describes a mini-game he devised to play out the results of a Scouting

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Campaign Carnival – Scenario 2 – Blockade Runners!
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Campaign Carnival – Scenario 2 – Blockade Runners!

1 July 020221 July 02022

The Campaign Carnival continues! Welcome to the second scenario in the series. You will need the Campaign Carnival Rules zine to play this scenario. You

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Talking About Chainmail
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Talking About Chainmail

27 June 02022

I am fascinated with the history of miniatures wargaming, and with fantasy roleplaying. These two interests come together in Chainmail, the miniatures battles game that

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Game Design, or Game Master Development?
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Game Design, or Game Master Development?

17 June 0202217 November 02022

Reading this post about the Lost Dungeon of Tonisborg at Roleplay Rescue got me thinking. I’ve been doing a TON of research into D&D/early FRP

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Campaign Carnival After Action Report – Baron Elizabeth – Chainmail
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Campaign Carnival After Action Report – Baron Elizabeth – Chainmail

15 June 0202212 June 02022

Baron Elizabeth (@RobertB28871164 on twitter) is the first to complete his game for Scenario 1 of the Campaign Carnival 2022! Check out this amazing game:

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Campaign Carnival: Setting Up for Age of Penda
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Campaign Carnival: Setting Up for Age of Penda

13 June 0202212 June 02022

After seeing the Hethwill Wargames video on Age of Penda, I decided it was a game system I needed to try out. I read the

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Great Stuff at Blood & Pigment
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Great Stuff at Blood & Pigment

9 June 020228 June 02022

I got into the Blood & Plunder KS several years ago, now. Of course, life comes at you fast, and things change. My wife had

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Mastering Mass Combat – Warriors of Mars 1974
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Mastering Mass Combat – Warriors of Mars 1974

8 June 02022

The RPG Sage and I sat down to discuss and play a game of Warriors of Mars, a miniatures game by TSR from 1974. There

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