Like Dux to Water: 10 Mar - pig molesters

[Christian]

I really that last pics of the Roman shieldwall clashing with the Saxon battle line. Very exciting stuff!

When playing Sharp Practice - another Lardies ruleset - with Furt, we assigned one soldier to escort and guard a prisoner. In the game he marched him back to the shoreline at gunpoint. He was worth a bit, so it made sense at the time. It seems like you need either a GM or someone without a vested interest in winning, to make these decision... as you pointed out in your blog.

When I've thought about how to play this with two players, I imagine having some generic Saxon and Roman warbands to fight/raid against, before the actual characters you want to play have a head=to-head battle. You could form a narrative around Saxon vs. Saxon, or British warlords scuffling on the borders... that way it's a little more impartial as your treasured characters level up

Just a few thoughts... I'm really enjoying this thread!

[Dr. The Viking]

Those are very nice pictures indeed!

I agree - Lardies rules can't be forced. You can't go looking for answers in the rule book for most questions. And issues should generally be adressed with common sense and period knowledge rather than citations from the book.

ON the other hand... it is so you can't blame people for trying to win. As a clever man once said:

The object of the game is to win. The point of the game is to have fun.

I find games like this work a lot better in a group of 4 players and a games master. But I hope we'll get more games in and somewhere along the line iron out all the discrepancies. 

It does not look like I will be gaming a lot over the next few weeks, though, as it has dawned on someone at the university that my presence at a series of tests concerning theoretical computer chemistry is of the utmost importance in the coming weeks.

I for one cannot make out why they'd ever want me there. I can't stand computers and find the idea, that I'll once be replaced by one, to be rather disturbing.

For all of you not scientifically inclined here's what I feel like about the prospect, in music, by Mussorgsky: