Sunday, October 25, 2009
Zombie in My PC is a small, tile based zombie game that plays like a dungeon crawl. Go to a room. Fight the monsters. Take their treasure.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Eric Laurent has written Verdammnis, a “weird World War II” modification for the excellent commercial rules set “Dogs of War.” The modifications include rules for Nazi scientists, zombies, super soldiers, and werewolves, as well as providing stats for WWII British, Russian, US and German troops.
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Saturday, October 04, 2008
Apathy: The Calling is a free roleplaying game of Cthulhuian horror. The author writes:
Welcome to Apathy:The Calling a Role Playing Game. In this game you play regular folk dealing with the mythos in the only way they can in the modern age, with apathy. As one of the select few for unknown reasons you can hear Dread Cthulhu as he dreams, calling you to commit unspeakable acts. Fortunately you’ve long been accustomed to ignoring inconvenient realities. You fight back with the inertia and apathy, that has defined you as a generation of slackers, miscreants, good for nothings, baby busters and losers. Apathy, the Role Playing game is a game about the lost generation, everyday life and cthulhu.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
The Somerset Wargamers have a page that offers rules for playing Resident Evil miniatures games, as well as advice on collecting the proper miniatures and producing terrain.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Battleground Weird War II is an adaptation of the Battleground World War II rules for superscience and the supernatural.
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Monday, October 08, 2007
The Twilight Horror Gaming Yahoo Group offers the Twilight Rules, a set of horror skirmish miniatures rules.
The author writes:
Twilight is a basic wargame system that was designed for quick and easy miniature wargaming in a modern horror setting. These rules were designed for each human player to play a small group of 1 figure that fight low intensity battles primarily against another player controlling a zombie horde.
These battles were designed to play on a model battlefield environment using 28mm miniatures. Movement and firing distances are measured using small retractable tape measures. These rules require the use of two 6-sided dice. A laser pointer is a nice additional tool but not required.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Darkson Designs offers AE WWII, a set of rules set in a world where WWII continues into 1946 and beyond, D-Day has failed, and MacArthur is President.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
VS Monsters is a free RPG
in which the players take the roles of 19th century monster hunters living in the America of the time. This is the America of Edgar Allan Poe. This is America seen though the goggles of distortion that are used by such greats as Lewis Carrol, Tim Burton, and Mike Mignola. This is America as it never really was.
I really like the feel of this one.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Horrors of Angband is a set of house rules for using vampires and werewolves in Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings game.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Haunted House is a solitaire RPG that’s played with the rules (a free pdf download), a deck of poker cards, pencil and paper.
What’s really interesting about this game is that the deck of poker cards is used to simulate the rolling of dice. In the game, the haunted house and encounters are generated randomly as the player moves through them. There’s a lot here for miniature gamers to borrow.
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Poll #1:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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