Mentioned in Dispatches Season 12 Ep 1 ~ Adventure Wargaming

9 February 2024 ~

What the heck is an “adventure wargame”?  OK, so we’re not going to get into the parsing of specific definitional details, but we’re going to try to give you a sense of what makes them different than you average wargame and why you might enjoy playing them

So help us launch season 12 with a discussion of where RPGs and wargames overlap and how you can adapt some of those experience & campaign ideas to your more traditional hex-&-counter wargames down the line.

Some references?

• The Drive on Gießen for World at War ’85
• Striker (RPG rules)
• Five Parsecs From Home / Five Leagues From the Borderlands
• The Birthright setting
• Polyhedron 156 / V for Victory RPG

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