{"id":774,"date":"2013-10-15T07:15:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/?p=774"},"modified":"2013-10-15T07:15:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T07:15:22","slug":"rules-and-more-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Rules and more Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many rules, so little time.<a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/books.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-773\" alt=\"books\" src=\"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/books.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"623\" \/><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">From top to bottom:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grippingbeast.com\/shop.php?CatID=2396\" target=\"_blank\">SAGA<\/a> &#8211; The base rules plus all the expansions in the folder that came with expansion #4. I play this a lot recently. \u00a0I have a six point Anglo-Dane warband.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manticgames.com\/games\/dreadball.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dreadball <\/a>Season 2<\/li>\n<li>Dreadball \u00a0&#8211; Base rules. \u00a0I love Dreadball. \u00a0I play the base game only so far. \u00a0I have a season 2 team, unpainted. \u00a0It will get painted soon. \u00a0Dreadball is a ton of fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monster-International-Employee-Handbook-Roleplaying\/dp\/1583661468\/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381819596&amp;sr=1-5&amp;keywords=monster+hunter+international\" target=\"_blank\">Monster Hunter International<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The RPG based on the novels. \u00a0I GM a campaign. \u00a0Lots of fun. \u00a0Humans with guns fight monsters &#8211; werewolves, zombies, etc&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Star-Wars-Edge-Empire-Rulebook\/dp\/1616616571\/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381819755&amp;sr=1-2-catcorr&amp;keywords=star+wars+edge+of+empire+rpg\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars Edge Of Empire<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 RPG. I do not currently play. \u00a0It seems like a fun game. \u00a0Unique dice mechanic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eclipsephase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eclipse Phase<\/a> &#8211; \u00a0RPG. I am a player in a campaign. \u00a0Great game, and the most high quality rulebook here. \u00a0Very unique sci-fi setting. The printed book is well worth it&#8217;s price, however, the rules are also available for <a href=\"http:\/\/robboyle.wordpress.com\/eclipse-phase-pdfs\/\" target=\"_blank\">free<\/a>. \u00a0Creative Commons rules!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/toofatlardies.co.uk\/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=25\" target=\"_blank\">Chain Of Command<\/a> &#8211; Just released (Fall 2013) WWII platoon level rules from Too Fat Lardies. \u00a0I&#8217;ve not played them yet, but they seem really nice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gruntz.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gruntz<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 15mm Sci-Fi rules. \u00a0A great introductory set of rules, and you can add complexity later. \u00a0I&#8217;ve played them a few times. \u00a0Fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ambushalleygames.com\/products\/store\/product\/show\/cid-66\/name-tomorrows-war\/category_pathway-0\" target=\"_blank\">Tomorrows War<\/a> &#8211; Another 15mm Sci-Fi ruleset. \u00a0Well reviewed, but overly complex and, frankly, the book is hard to read. \u00a0Black text on a busy background.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farfuture.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Traveller<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; I have so many great memories of playing Traveller as a kid in the &#8217;80s. \u00a0Sci-Fi RPG.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farfuture.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Traveller 5 <\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Not the &#8220;final&#8221; Traveller I&#8217;d hoped for. \u00a0Overly complex.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s my physical rules collection. \u00a0In digital, I&#8217;ve got a bunch more, but the only digital rules that are not also here in physical form that I play \/ want to play are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toofatlardies.co.uk\/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=24\" target=\"_blank\">Quadrant 13<\/a> &#8211; Company level 15mm Sci-Fi rules. \u00a0Seems like a great game. \u00a0I&#8217;d love to play some day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/members.ozemail.com.au\/~laranzu\/fullthrust\/rules\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Thrust: Cross Dimensions<\/a> &#8211; Super fun space fleet combat game. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got two full fleets of minis painted up for this game. \u00a0Quick, deadly, tactical space combat. \u00a0Free rules, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many rules, so little time.From top to bottom: SAGA &#8211; The base rules plus all the expansions in the folder that came with expansion #4. I play this a lot recently. \u00a0I have a six point Anglo-Dane warband. Dreadball Season 2 Dreadball \u00a0&#8211; Base rules. \u00a0I love Dreadball. \u00a0I play the base game only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,7,6,5],"tags":[44,39,55,38,27,2,10,30,40,57,49,54,4,56,15],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancients","category-rpg","category-sci-fi-gound","category-starship-gaming","tag-15mm","tag-28mm","tag-chain-of-command","tag-dreadball","tag-eclipse-phase","tag-full-thrust","tag-gruntz","tag-mantic","tag-mhi","tag-quadrant-13","tag-saga","tag-star-wars","tag-starship","tag-too-fat-lardies","tag-traveller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tabletop.magigames.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}