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FW ad from White Dwarf
This ad appeared in White Dwarf #27 (October/November 1981) The illustration is partly excerpted from Lawrence H. Heath’s frontispiece for the chapter on GMing. Lawrence Heath’s work appears in many...
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Leigh Cliffs and Fantasy Wargaming
A little more information has surfaced…I’ll post the email with the firsthand info if I can get permission as there is a lot of interesting stuff but the bottom line is that Kevin Prior assisted Bruce...
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Still more on Leigh Cliffs, FW, and such
Happily, Kevin has allowed me to share some of his memories of Leigh Cliffs and Bruce Galloway, which I’m excerpting here: When your first email came it was a bit of a shock, as it brought back...
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Fantasy Wargaming…a brief history
What have I learned, then? After a pretty good chunk of research and based on recollections of two people involved in the project (who however admit not remembering everything and who in any case were...
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Microlite-FW musings
I’ve pretty much given up on the idea of cobbling together a better organized version of FW. I love the book, and have found the investigation really fascinating (not least because the two gentlemen...
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Telengard 2.0
Last night we played a FATE-based game (A Fistful of FATE, I believe it was called; I missed part of the beginning as I had some parenting to do). It was pretty good, once we got accustomed to it....
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Bogeys — finish my table
One of the really odd but somehow cool things Fantasy Wargaming had in the character generation process was ‘bogeys’ — a chart of characteristics that helped individualize characters with personality...
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The magic goes away and The magic may return
The magic goes away, by Larry Niven, was a short, fun read. I’d read Ringworld a year or two ago and liked Niven’s style, which is one selling point. I also learned that Bruce Galloway, primary...
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Venomous sheep (updated)
In the first battle three hundred of the men of Lochlann were killed, but in the next battle Eolgarg Mor did not fight fair, for he let some venomous sheep out of a tent, and these attacked the men of...
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Fantasy Wargaming : the audiobook
This is some very old news, but I’ve just noticed a DAISY version of the venerable early roleplaying game Fantasy Wargaming available for borrowing from the Internet Archive! DAISY, for those...
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