Lofwyr's blog

Well, I loved blogging and posting here, to be sure. Because my product has moved from development to publication it’s time to end my blogging here and move things over to the official game site. I want to thank all you wonderful folks at BGDF.com for the insights and support. Talking about games and reading the posts here every day has served as an inspiration for my own work.

I’ll be honest, I’ve been putting off this blog post for some time now. I find the more engrossed I get with my work the less I want to take time away from it. Since alot of BGDF posts Ive been reading discuss work flow methods, design methods and environments I thought I’d make a post about mine.

I write at a desk featuring a few plants, a large open window, and a modest selection of miniatures. Also on the desk are a number of items that pertain to my work, tape measure, dice, drawing pads etc.

First and foremost let’s get back into heroic action and methods of resolving it. Now, while I do have some level of appreciation for the hit-miss,” you go” then “I go” systems, I didn’t feel they were appropriate to my own design. If I wanted to emulate the actions of heroic Individuals then I had to accept that lumping all of these heroes together in bulk actions is not only unrealistic, but it destroys the illusion. Above all else I wanted players to stay immersed in combat, every moment of every round fully engrossing. This is hardly possible in a classic “turn” based approach.

My wish list, both massive and unorganized, was sucking me down. Like so many things I design, my first thought was to the vivid depiction of combat with no care for game length or complexity. This is a common mistake of miniatures games and certainly a pitfall I faced early on. While a particular mechanic may seem to function on paper, its operation and result clear in my own mind, actual implementation invariably returns a verbose rule set and painfully slow game-play.