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Twelve Years Later...

Twelve years ago, I rediscovered the joy of simple, old school gaming through a rules-light d20 clone called "microlight20".

 A gent by the name of Greywulf was very active in this space and he'd started the old site microlite20.net. It had a blogging feature and my very first oldschool related post was on May 12th: 

https://web.archive.org/web/20100611221707/http://microlite20.net/blog?page=5

Howdy!Submitted by chgowiz on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 13:26Oh, another blog. Yay! :)
My "old" blog is at http://chgowiz.livejournal.com - it's full of other 'stuff', not related to gaming and D20 or m20.
Coming soon to this site, however... the m20 character generator! A basic 'core' version was scratched out this weekend, but now I'm working on a 'better' version that will include Macropedia rulesets.
More to come as Greywulf gets this site up and running...
Links

Heh. Even back then, if a programming or hacking challenge raised its ugly head, I would jump in feet first. That's how I got involved in the One Page Dungeon Template thing...

Anyway, my search for a fun D&D game to play had rekindled in late 2007, early 2008 when I sat down with a borrowed copy of the D&D 3.5 rules and tried to scratch out a campaign for Ultima. After needing spreadsheets and a writeup that felt like a movie script, I realized that I wanted to go back to the days of when D&D (to me) was simple and fun. Thus, I wound a crazy road through microlite20, then through Swords & Wizardry and OSRIC, finally coming back to just playing the originals now that they were commercially available again.

What a fun journey.

Participating in an RPG does something to the brain, I think. There's an imprint that happens.

If you've read Dragonriders of Pern, (spoilers for those who haven't), I think of it similar to how someone imprints on a dragon during Hatching. You discover the game that speaks to you, and it's a match that will never ever quite go away. It's a first love. With all the ignoring of the warts and issues. The first time of escaping your life and living vicariously through the life of a made up character - or as a deity of a made up world. It something that I think has a profound effect on us, especially when we encounter the concept and play as a child. Impression.

For me, that impression was with Holmes (which was, IMO, OD&D levels 1 -  3) and AD&D. I've played other games, I can appreciate other games, but I will always be imprinted with those originals.

I made a list of the things I've written, been involved in or contributed to during these past twelve years and it's told me one thing... I'm part of a special group of players who imprinted much like I did. We're a raucous bunch, opinionated and crotchety about our games, but at the core, I suspect there's a feeling of wonder and joy, much like that first time we picked up those dice and stepped into another world. We love to create, to share and to experience the game again and again.

Happy Anniversary, y'all. I'm really glad I discovered our niche of a niche. I'm here to stay. 

The Reasons Why

This post is as at least partly for my own benefit, as a reminder of where I was when the time comes for me to get back to the 54's. Hopefully, the thoughts behind the rules may be of interest to some and, of course, there are pictures of toy soldiers!     

Turn 3: Red began with 4 companies of infantry (=2 scenario units) randomly arriving in the best spot. They have just followed up with a gun and a troop of cavalry arriving on the main road. Blue has the initial 2 companies now backed by a field gun with 2 companies of Zouaves just arriving. 

I want a Toy Soldier-ish wargame, not an accurate historical recreation of real battles, but I want them to invoke the feel of small historical actions from the 1870's and 80's  such as Ridgeway during the Fenian Raids or Laing's Nek in the First Boer War not bigger affairs like Tel El Kebir or the battles for the Shipka Pass.  

I also want to use a small table but have at least a little room and some reason to manoeuvre. This means that each unit needs to be small as well as the armies being small and ranges need to be curtailed. My first adult battles with 54's were played  with a set of Colonial Rules written for OS25mm figures but the figures didn't take up much more room (25mm washers vs pennies) and my table was 6'x10' so there was plenty of room for 8 man companies grouped into 3 company battalions, themselves grouped into brigades for the bigger games. However, I have come to like games played with 4 man companies on a smaller table so there are no regrets and an appreciation of the ease of set up, solo play and take down with my current set up.

Turn 6: Both armies are all on board.

There are still a few issues that I am struggling with because what feels like a good "game" mechanism, often appears to be "wrong" from a historical perspective. There are always such conflicts when designing a simple, fun game and it comes down to which compromises give the best over all feel (for me, since I'm not going to be selling the rules). 

The two main issues are Command Control and how to show the effects of combat. 

Whenever I find myself getting bogged down in C&C issues again, I remind myself of Lawford & Young's comments on the subject, reread the old Kriegspiel rules designed to train officers but where they were free to make their own bad decisions, or just read some memoirs. Most wargamers can quote an example of a subordinate not carrying out an order according to the defeated general who is explaining why he lost but few reflect that these known failures are each balanced by thousands of orders which were carried out, or at least attempted.  Then I remind myself to go with Lawford & Young and let player's make their own mistakes rather then hiding behind a die roll. (Mind you I keep some uncertainty by rolling dice for distance as I did back in my MacDuff days in the 90's.)

Later: The battlelines trade fire.

Casualties are a harder thing. Charles Grant was right here, its much easier to show a trickle of casualties on large units. Given that the historical actions that have inspired me for this game had very low numbers of killed and wounded (ie 5% or less in some cases), I have had to forgo removing every hit. Having multi-figure bases at least helps reduce the urge to tip the little guys over. 

Then the bayonet sweeps the field!
(Rolling up 2 guns was probably better than 2 cavalry for Blue but more infantry might have helped!)

I do need to reflect the tendency of units to be pinned by heavy fire as well as a tendency to become brittle and to suddenly break when something changes, like being charged or surprised, having friends run or being ordered to retreat. 

The jury is still out on this topic but at the moment units may fire OR move so the player needs to forgo a chance to shoot if he wants to get close.  They may neither advance nor shoot once  when they have taken their maximum hits and may run if they lose a charge combat, but they might succeed in rallying once they are in a  safe spot. Just removing them and having them automatically rally on the shelf overnight would be easier though, and maybe more toy soldierish.