Onwards & upwards!

[Craig]

 Well, Sleeping Dragon, Rising Sun was officially released in the USA yesterday and for the rest of the world it launches on Friday. The last chapter in two years of non-stop work with Osprey.
 Many of you will have just received your pre-ordered copies, or shall get them in the next few days. We’d love to hear your views on this new supplement here on the Lead Adventure IHMN forum, on the IHMN blog or on one of the Facebook groups.
 Although we shall not be publishing any more IHMN material through Osprey there is so much more to come on the blog and though other avenues. For example, as many of you know we are currently publishing an entire supplement, IHMN Gothic, in thirteen free instalments on the blog.
 We are also looking at publishing genre packs to allow you to use the IHMN core rules in a wide range of genres/periods.
 Additionally Daishō, a variant of IHMN set in a mystical, medieval Japan, is in the midst of being written with the objective of being published professionally at the end of this year.
 So, please enjoy SDRS in the sure and certain knowledge that this is just the beginning of a long-lasting friendship.

[Conquistador]

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 We are also looking at publishing genre packs to allow you to use the IHMN core rules in a wide range of genres/periods.
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While the Gothic thing has a negative value for me personally and Samurai games put me to sleep I am curious to see what you come up with for other genres/periods beyond VSF.

Since IHMN is clearly exclusively a skirmish level game with strong story making potential, (a lot like yet completely different in style and flavor from my preferred games by Two Hour Wargames,) in play it eliminates itself from many periods where skirmish gaming is a small part of the experience.

IHMN would seem to lend itself well to development for Western gaming, Pulp Era gaming perhaps, and even Science Fiction (or perhaps more akin to 'Science Fantasy') at first glance.  Those historical games where mass or large battles more representative of the period - Ancients, A. C. W., 7YW/AWI, Napoleonic, etc., - I don't see, at first glance, where the IHMN mechanics would work as well, outside of skirmish situations.   

Can you give an idea of what areas are likely tio be explored in the first projects?

Gracias,

Glenn

[The_Beast]

While the Gothic thing has a negative value for me personally...

Boy, do our boats float differently... 

I saw elsewhere you got all excited about Austro-Hungarian; did you see Rob Lee's Light Dragoons under Player-Authored Material?

Not necessarily my cuppa, which means one of my opponents WILL pounce on it, prolly that bounder Carnage. Really should give it a close read... 

Doug

[Varangian]

I love what you've put together so far, and I'm very interested in seeing where it goes from here.

Boy, do our boats float differently... 

Yeah, no kidding. There hasn't been anything yet for the game that I haven't thought "Awesome!" this will get some use.

[The_Beast]

Oh, there are definitely some I've not thought of using.

However, I've elsewhere said my clearest vision of IHMN, though not always the settings Ive played, is in alleyways and shadowy back streets in Vicky London. THESE could definitely pop out when one least expects them. 

...when the wolfbane blooms...

Doug

[Conquistador]

Oh, there are definitely some I've not thought of using.

However, I've elsewhere said my clearest vision of IHMN, though not always the settings Ive played, is in alleyways and shadowy back streets in Vicky London. THESE could definitely pop out when one least expects them. 

...when the wolfbane blooms...

Doug

And that is why we differ in our preferences...      

Dark and Foreboding Jungles, Sweeping tall grass plains/prairies/savannas, Lost Temples, Desert Highlands, Mountain Lairs, Small Pueblos/villages where English is an alien/foreign language, Venus, (someday) Barsoom - these are where my interests lay.       

London or any European/American Big City - not happening with my terrain (or interests.)   

It has nothing to do with my pathological dislike of werewolves/Zombies and virulent dislike of Vampires, much less my personal paranoia/discomfort with Horror settings in general.  I blame the last on my childhood and will leave it at that...         

Gracias,

Glenn

[Conquistador]

Boy, do our boats float differently... 

I saw elsewhere you got all excited about Austro-Hungarian; did you see Rob Lee's Light Dragoons under Player-Authored Material?

Not necessarily my cuppa, which means one of my opponents WILL pounce on it, prolly that bounder Carnage. Really should give it a close read... 

Doug

Nothing wrong with our boats at all... 

Yes, I did see the Austro-Hungarians       but a recent crimp in finances are probably going to result in selling off at a huge discount most of my 25+ mm figures (already underway for personal preferences but accelerated by a recent (and probably long term) need to pay for my hobby independent of our incomes.) but only with a view towards being eventually deployed on Venus (in 15 mm if I can find the figures and the $$$.)

Don't you hate it when your regular across the table player knows how to mess up your plans??  Or your mind?         I had two of those back in Sacramento, one of which is on this formum (Hi, Alfrik!) rhoug I think it has been decades since we played on the floor of the Rancho Cordova Library... or elsewhere.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Conquistador]

Oh, there are definitely some I've not thought of using.

However, I've elsewhere said my clearest vision of IHMN, though not always the settings Ive played, is in alleyways and shadowy back streets in Vicky London. THESE could definitely pop out when one least expects them. 

...when the wolfbane blooms...

Doug

True, but the baddest monsters in games should reflect the worst villains in reality too (Humans.)

I have been in my job too long  (so much that I gave up watching the news/reading newspapers/magazines.)  And the mental scars will always be there from seeing just how fallen we mortals are...  We exceed the evil of the monsters of Fantasy and SF as a race...  Lord, I sound so morbid...  Let me balance that with the fact that the greatest heroes should be those humans who rise above their nature and do Good/defeat Evil.

Gracias

Glenn

[Irishrover13]

I love the IHMN rule set, it would work for any setting with small scale conflicts.
Wild West: Set the time like earlier cut back on the weird science and you have a great system for the Range wars and similar conflicts fought all over the wild west.
Spys: I think the rules would be great for James Bond type spy vs spy conflicts.
Back of Beyond: post world war 1 in wild areas of asia.
I have more as well.

[Varangian]

I love the IHMN rule set, it would work for any setting with small scale conflicts.
Wild West: Set the time like earlier cut back on the weird science and you have a great system for the Range wars and similar conflicts fought all over the wild west.
Spys: I think the rules would be great for James Bond type spy vs spy conflicts.
Back of Beyond: post world war 1 in wild areas of asia.
I have more as well.

Agreed. It's a great system that can be used all sorts of ways. The more material we have, the more we can accomplish without going beyond "official" play tested rules.

I'm even considering using it in the Warhammer Fantasy setting doing warbands, especially witch hunters etc..

It would also work with the Lovecraftian Mythos, though in this case I'd likely add another attribute that works like Pluck, except solely for willpower type rolls.

[Craig]

The literary monsters of a period reflect the worst that people saw around them in their daily lives.

In the Victorian period it was the rich preying upon the poor (vampires), the unregulated and oftimes immoral advances of science (Frankenstein - Prometheus unbound) and the ability of men themselves to harbour monsters in their breasts (werewolves).

Now it is the numbing of the populace through TV, drugs and unemployment and the fear of becoming one with the masses (zombies).

[Conquistador]

The literary monsters of a period reflect the worst that people saw around them in their daily lives.

In the Victorian period it was the rich preying upon the poor (vampires), the unregulated and oftimes immoral advances of science (Frankenstein - Prometheus unbound) and the ability of men themselves to harbour monsters in their breasts (werewolves).

Now it is the numbing of the populace through TV, drugs and unemployment and the fear of becoming one with the masses (zombies).

Wow, learned analysis, (seriously, no sarcasm, honest appreciation,) from a  war game thread.  I am impressed.  I do think you (like me) tie the metaphors of the then current 'realities' viewed/colored by modernism and the personal political/social/religious blinders we all wear.  I would love to find views from the non-socialist tinged commentators of that time for balancing how Victorians may have seen that.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Irishrover13]

The literary monsters of a period reflect the worst that people saw around them in their daily lives.

In the Victorian period it was the rich preying upon the poor (vampires), the unregulated and oftimes immoral advances of science (Frankenstein - Prometheus unbound) and the ability of men themselves to harbour monsters in their breasts (werewolves).

Now it is the numbing of the populace through TV, drugs and unemployment and the fear of becoming one with the masses (zombies).

I am enjoying this as well. I never thought of it this way before for Zombies, they are a old monster that is found in many cultures but never a "horde" creature until the last few decades. It is interesting how old monsters evolve.

[Conquistador]

I am enjoying this as well. I never thought of it this way before for Zombies, they are a old monster that is found in many cultures but never a "horde" creature until the last few decades. It is interesting how old monsters evolve.

True, now I am thinking about - "How much am I seeing a creature (Vampire, Zombie, Dwarf, Elf,) from my post LOTR, post Cold War, post 'civil rights for <insert a group>'  viewpoint?  How were they viewed in the early 1900s? the 1700s?  the 900s?"

Gracias,

Glenn

[Irishrover13]

Speaking of Elves I think IHMN would make a wonderful Fantasy skirmish system. Better once iron out my campaign model (different from Craig's likely not better though).