tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post3773167795938708265..comments2024-03-19T14:50:46.819-07:00Comments on The Realm of Zhu: Meridian: An Alternative Gaming HistoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-48552324738913487622015-01-07T13:44:07.910-08:002015-01-07T13:44:07.910-08:00Surprisingly not! Apparently as a relatively small...Surprisingly not! Apparently as a relatively small child he met some chap in the street who had tons of toy soldiers at home and went and visited him...<br /><br />Certainly a sign of a very different age!The Responsible Onehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10377870574546599439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-43229984791956165232015-01-06T06:49:59.685-08:002015-01-06T06:49:59.685-08:00Exactly. The Hyboria campaign and the developments...Exactly. The Hyboria campaign and the developments in Lake Geneva are very similar. Jon Peterson's book is very interesting in that respect. It traces a very interesting lineage from the more serious professional wargames in the 19th century to toy soldier games at that start of the 20th century to the development of roleplaying in the 60s and 70s. Contrary to what many people think, Gygax Phil Dutréhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13607941040736764291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-6687868662646614942015-01-06T03:51:18.472-08:002015-01-06T03:51:18.472-08:00Did it get interrupted by lemurs? Did it get interrupted by lemurs? zhu bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08004498036257289234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-88037729273146645642015-01-06T03:26:38.900-08:002015-01-06T03:26:38.900-08:00Seems entirely relevant to me :-) retrofuturism is...Seems entirely relevant to me :-) retrofuturism is catching up with the cybergeneration.<a href="http://glitchkrieg48k.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">glitchkrieg</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE" rel="nofollow">vapourwave</a>. Steampunk is pertinent as it's futurism with an origin of wargames, in a similar mode to how Swords & Sorcery is at the origin of RPGs. zhu bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08004498036257289234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-28173561739676002022015-01-06T02:48:59.274-08:002015-01-06T02:48:59.274-08:00The observation that 'period' wargaming di...The observation that 'period' wargaming didn't start until the 1950s is interesting. <br /><br />IMHO Tony Bath's "How to Set Up A Wargames Campaign" is almost as extraordinary as Gygaxs Dungeon Master Guide in it's creativity and scope. And his Hyboria campaign possibly the first 'fantasy' war game or perhaps "literary genre war game".zhu bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08004498036257289234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-61837170272309687462015-01-06T02:41:42.483-08:002015-01-06T02:41:42.483-08:00Ah, you'll see Jon Peterson's blog is link...Ah, you'll see Jon Peterson's blog is linked over on the right. I haven't read all of Playing at the World, and I think perhaps I should get around to it. It's nice to see that unlike the BBC Jons history of the wargame fully acknowledges its roots instead of using Wells as an arbitrary watershed. Of course Wells is monumentally important in VSF & Steampunk, so important in zhu bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08004498036257289234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-42847213550730072032015-01-06T02:29:02.822-08:002015-01-06T02:29:02.822-08:00For some reason, that makes me consider the kind o...For some reason, that makes me consider the kind of work Gygax originally did with D&D and Mike Pondsmith did with Cyberpunk was in codifying and expanding a literary genre. So whilst for Kriegspeil the GM relies on battlefield experience and passing down that knowledge to trainee officers, with RPGs it's largely genre tropes.zhu bajieehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08004498036257289234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-50311758789619233052015-01-05T15:58:49.241-08:002015-01-05T15:58:49.241-08:00I never realised when I read it as a child, but th...I never realised when I read it as a child, but the wargame Gerald Durrell describes in Fillets of Plaice is almost certainly "Little Wars".The Responsible Onehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10377870574546599439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-54030535074962525712015-01-05T12:12:17.669-08:002015-01-05T12:12:17.669-08:00I find it interesting and a little sad that there ...I find it interesting and a little sad that there are constant attempts to update games like <i>Cyberpunk</i> and <i>Shadowrun</i> to better reflect our understanding of future technology. Not only because such attempts are doomed to failure but because for me the draw of these settings is in part because they're a 1980's view of what 2013 would be like; to me they're akin to the 50&#thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-7005850170772901642015-01-05T09:06:48.830-08:002015-01-05T09:06:48.830-08:00I think it is pointed out in "Playing at the ...I think it is pointed out in "Playing at the world" (one of the most elaborate works on the history of wargaming and roleplaying), that the idea of playing historical periods with wargaming (instead of just using contemporary soldiers) is relatively recent, i.e. after WW2. Before WW2, almost all published wargaming rules assume that a battle takes place in the contemporary world.<br /><Phil Dutréhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13607941040736764291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385336331396124855.post-44520452472334473352015-01-05T08:57:56.916-08:002015-01-05T08:57:56.916-08:00Great read, actually reminds me that at the start ...Great read, actually reminds me that at the start of most interesting games/tales lies one question : What if ? <br /><br />That's one question Wells and Talsorian must have asked themselves and we can agree they answered dreadfully close to the truth.Asslessmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475252828835332056noreply@blogger.com