I've been wondering what I'd put on a list at 50% off, but I haven't come up with anything yet. The Lord of the Rings line is there, but why drop into 25mm from 28mm and not go to
15mm, or better yet
6mm? For sci-fi and 40K at 6mm, check out
the new not-titans from
Steel Crown Productions.
Building on
a discussion with Snord at
BoLS, I don't much dig GW's heroic 28mm style any more. I think it looks odd. The bits can be useful though, and we might only now be learning how useful. Ork hands, say, can look simian on naturally proportioned humans.
I know I'm not alone in this, so here's another hypothetical. If GW's style is falling out of fashion, what else could the rulesets be used for? What if the settings got old?
To mention
another discussion at BoLS, I recently joked some of the
Dystopian Legions miniatures could inspire a Warhammer
20K, set 10,000 years further back from the 30K of the currently fashionable
Horus Heresy.
What about playing a Warhammer 2K in our near past or future, or c. 0K with ancients? Would the ruleset be up to the job?
That got me thinking about earlier periods. How about -40K? Or -400K?
Have you ever seen a ruleset for wargaming or roleplaying encounters between early humans? This kind of thing. Various posts at
The Subversive Archeologist - like
this one - suggest plenty is still up in the air. Early human miniatures are relatively thin on the ground too.
If you have anything like that up your sleeve, you might want to read
Lo's
current series at
HoP on getting new ideas out there, which is now up to the subject of
self-publishing.
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