#Game Designers' Workshop

[oldschoolfrp]

Dragon magazine 26, June 1979, featured GDW's wargame System 7 Napoleonics on the cover and in 4 articles -- a review, system analysis, designer's comments, and Q&A with designer Rich Banner. System 7 was a hybrid of board and miniature wargames, played on a table without a board but using cardboard counters to represent the formations of units. The aim was to get players playing immediately without spending weeks painting miniatures.

Other articles covered TSR's William the Conqueror: 1066 board game, D&D, Boot Hill, Empire of the Petal Throne, FGU's Lords & Wizards, and Avalon Hill's Starship Troopers.

The origins of D&D were rooted deeply in historical miniatures campaigns, and TSR originally catered to the wargaming community as a core part of its audience. TSR was founded to sell D&D but its first publications were historical miniatures rules, and Dragon magazine continued to include historical gaming topics for years, gradually reducing its coverage in favor of more D&D content and other TSR RPGs.

#Dragon magazine #System 7 Napoleonics #wargame #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #GDW #Game Designers' Workshop #Rich Banner #gaming history #TSR #1970s #wargaming #wargames #Napoleonic wargame #Napoleonics #historical wargame

[science70]

Game Designers' Workshop Imperium board game, 1977.

Designer: Marc W. Miller

Cover art: Stephen Fabian

#science fiction #board game #Imperium #Game Designers' Workshop #Marc W. Miller #Stephen Fabian #USA #1977

[vintagerpg]

So, as good as Rebellion is as a sourcebook, MegaTraveller never really did anything with the potential energy it contained. The metaplot doesn’t progress in a meaningful way, every new product just adds more and more details to the opening act and never moves on.

When sales started to drop off, GDW attempted to reinvigorate MegaTraveller with Hard Times, which advances the calendar six years in the future. The rebellion is dying down and, in fact, is a utter failure, because no single faction has triumphed. The Imperium is dead, replaced by many splintered, warring states. Because of this, the galaxy is rapidly decaying. Interstellar trade has collapsed, pirates are everywhere and many planets have been poisoned by the war and are slowly dying. Crime, poverty and violence are now a way of life.

I think this is deeply fascinating. It is just a total unraveling of the Traveller universe. It is shocking and sad and unnervingly plausible — leave it to a bunch of wargame nerds and military history buffs to simulate one of the most compelling portrayals of a civilization in collapse you can find in RPGs.

Which is not to say I want to play in that doomed universe! While Hard Times is fascinating and well done, it also removes all the shiny optimism that defined Traveller. True, the Rebellion threw all that into doubt, but there was still hope of a return to better days. Hard Times smashes that hope into a million tiny pieces. Is that narratively brave? Certainly! And I admire it for going so enthusiastically in that direction. But no, I don’t want to play there. We’ve got Fading Suns and Warhammer and all manner of other dark futures, so I prefer to keep my Traveller bright.

Folks felt that way at the time, too. MegaTraveller dwindled on another year. In 1993, GDW launched Traveller: The New Era, which is an even bigger misstep and basically the end of GDW, but that’s a tale for another time.

Should note, I really love Dave Dorman’s cover. Some serious Star Wars vibes.

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #Roleplaying Game #D&D #dungeons & dragons #Game Designers' Workshop #Digest Group #Traveller #MegaTraveller #Hard Times

[bryanharryrombough]

Marc Miller is the creator of the Traveller Role-Playing game and in this interview he talks to Dirk the Dice about his first encounter with Dungeons and Dragons. He also talks about the origins of Traveller and his trip UK Games Day.

#Marc Miller #Game Designers' Workshop #TravellerRPG #The Grognard Files

[oracleandbone]

We’re honoured to announce that Oracle and Bone will be attending “Female Protagonists: International Women Game Makers Week” presented by the Goethe-Institut Taipei. We will be participating in panels and facilitating an interactive workshop. We appreciate Goethe-Institut Taipei and Allison Yang for their kind invitation. We look forward to meeting everyone there.

Information

https://www.goethe.de/ins/tw/cn/kul/sup/gam/ge/ase.html

#a summer's end #visual novel #game exhibition #lgbtq+ #taiwan #game development #a summer's end - Hong Kong 1986 #in the ocean i learned to float #Oracle & Bone #game workshop #game design #event #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #asian lgbtq

[joelchaimholtzman]

Concept I made for my worldbuilding around 1.5 years ago.

An Amalekite warrior from the Levantine Bronze Age. The Amalekites were hunters and raiders. Some of them were even rumoured to have been vampires and have the ability to raise the dead.

#dungeons and dragons #board games #concept art #fantasy art #tabletop games #digital painting #magic the gathering #character design #ancient history #armor #amalekite #bronze age #vampire #barbarian #the witcher #lord of the rings #warhammer #games workshop

[arainmorn-art]

Couple of the interior concept arts I've done for work. I'm working on dark fantsy\middlepunk RPG project called Distortion, it's supposed to be released in the early access somewhere in 2025.  g-a-p.games/ The smithy was especially fun one to make as it required to do a deepdive into Medieval forgery in a very short term. Now I know stuff about wire drawing, different types of hammers and anvils, carpenter tools, chainmail creation and many more x)

#arainmorn's art #my art #game concept art #environment concept #concept art #interior design #fantasy #dark fantasy #smithy #blacksmith #workshop #infirmary #kitchen #medieval #middlepunk #fantasy illustration #fantasy concept #fantasy interior #black and white #art #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #concept artists on tumblr #distortion

[orangecatty-shiningnikki]

【 Shining Nikki CN+TW 】

Main Story “Savior Headquarters”

Volume 3 Chapter 1 “Visitors in Restricted Areas”

【 Shining Nikki CN+TW 】

Main Story “Savior Headquarters”

Volume 3 Chapter 1 “Visitors in Restricted Areas”

A new oracle descended from a dream of revelation,

Faintly pointing to the sky full of gunpowder smoke and the ever-extinguishing flames of war.

Can the destruction of Miracle Continent be restored ?

Perhaps on the road of exploring the truth and protecting beauty,

Everyone needs partners to walk side by side with.

Go to Savior headquarters with Nikki and move forward fearlessly towards the truth.

Suit Display ::

Original :: Meilad Amber (夜珀之舞)

Recolor :: Luminous Amber (昼珀之舞)

Designer :: Loen (洛昂)

Collection :: Federal Style

Rarity :: SR

Attribute :: Fresh

Date :: 09/11/2023…..

Type ::

Main Story • Vol.3 • Ch.1

(Workshop Design) (Journey Suit) (Chapter Sets)

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#Main Story #Main Story Vol.3 #Federal Style #Workshop Design #Journey Suit #Chapter Sets #Loen #SR #Fresh #闪耀暖暖 #閃耀暖暖 #shining nikki #nikki ​3d #nikki 4 #nikki up2u 4 #orangecatty #3d dress-up game #nikki diary thailand #2023

[titanomancy]

My gaming group is going hard on both Legions Imperialis and 3d printing, so here's a test print of some Grimdark Terrain on a Dragon's Rest city tile, next to some KMFP Designs Orbital Knights for scale. The 8mm madness is upon us and we're doing a bit of proof-of-concept in preparation for a campaign.

Remarkable what a modern filament printer is capable of producing, and with only a 0.4mm nozzle at that. Can't wait to see what the 0.2mm is capable of.

#games workshop #warhammer 40k #warhammer 30k #horus heresy #legions imperialis #grimdark terrain #bifforium administratum #dragon's rest #terraforma epicminium #kmfp designs #orbital knights #adeptus astartes #legiones astartes #heretic astartes #chaos space marines #traitor legions #world eaters #terrain #3d printing #personal

[sethanart]

Preorders are open!! Please share if you like my art, it keeps me motivated to work on more silly cute illustrations!

#sethanart #art #artists on tumblr #artwork #commisions open #digital painting #illustration #digital artist #commission #old men #warhamemr 40k #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #40k #warhammer40k #emperors children #blood angels #noise marines #vinyl stickers #stickers #sticker art #sticker shop #sticker design #warhammercommunity #space marines #games workshop

[stainlesssteellocust]

I know the aesthetic is "everyone is filthy and bleeding and the worlds are all polluted and rotting and everything is awful all the time" but considering one of the Ruinous Powers is literally the god of filth and disease, it would make sense for the Imperium to have a culture of purity and cleanliness actually

"To despoil the Emperor-given body of humanity is heresy of the gravest order! You wash your face young lady or the pox-father will strike you down with zits before the Sanguinalia dance!"

People on ships probably have ritual cleansing periods based on the Terran day-night cycle, Ultramar has Roman-style public baths where the Ultramarines hang out

Of course since this is 40k they're going to be absolutely unhinged about it

Commisars shooting soldiers because they're not keeping clean enough when there's mud and blood and death everywhere and they've been fighting orks for the last solid day

Men dying of thirst so the general can have his twice-daily bubble bath to show his piety

The Sisters Hospitaller do canonically daube their armour in 'protective' incenses and ointments, either for genuine protective reasons, weirdass Imperial superstitions or maybe just so they can smell pretty while they're stalking through crowded wards saving lives or torturing injured heretics before executing them with bolt pistols I don't know (her ass has NOT agreed to medical neutrality!)

so I like to think that, like we say "sing yay many verses of this song while washing your hands to make sure you've done it long enough" they're doing the same with Imperial hymns

(not sure about the Militarum's doctors since they sometimes lean into "ghastly WW1 field hospital" vibes, but the SH's actually study new things and have access to medical texts and research mutation and xenobiology so I think they have a grasp of medical sanitation and PPE, most Astartes probs do too)

Picture a Astra Militarum doctor, Sister Hospitaller and Spess Mehreen Apothecary all stood by hand-sinks singing as they wash their hands:

Happy those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, Nor go the way of sinners, nor sit in company with heretics. Rather, the law of the Imperium is their joy;    the Emperor’s law they study day and night. They are like a tree planted near streams of water that yields its fruit in season...

Some Astartes or Battle-Sisters do the whole "fight gloriously for days without rest against impossible odds until relief comes" thing that happens every week or so like clockwork and realistically come out the other side absolutely filthy and rancid, so they flagellate themselves half to death for failing to meet the ritual bathing criterias needed to maintain their divinely-granted human forms because they're terrifying religious fanatics

#maybe this is why the Astartes look so cool and the Sisters keep being drawn like they just stepped out of a spa day before fighting #''brothers! this hair gel has been passed down from the days of Sanguinius himself! No Blood Angel may go into battle without it!'' #whoever designed that ridiculous Sororitas boob-plate has also shoved automated perfume dispensers into the shoulder pads #the Tau ar out there screaming WHY IS THIS THE HILL YOU CHOOSE TO DIE ON WHAT IS YOUR ACTUAL PROBLEM #warhammer 40000 #warhammer 40k #warhammer 30k #warhammer 30000 #adeptus astartes #adepta sororitas #space marines #sisters of battle #games workshop #worldbuilding #war crimes #somewhere there's a forge world with an STC for head & shoulders and they're making bank

[oldschoolfrp]

Procyon lorica trivides fayadii is a well known Daukokuan animal, a fairly intelligent nocturnal gatherer and burrower like the racoon, but with three eyes. It takes well to captivity, but recent experience suggests it can react badly to consumption of the plant Deep Ginger, quickly becoming addicted and morphing into a much larger, ravenous form. (AC Farley, from "Devil in the Dark," Pete Rogan's scenario for the sci-fi RPG 2300 AD, the second edition of Traveller: 2300, in GDW's Challenger magazine 36, 1988)

#2300 AD #Traveller: 2300 #AC Farley #sci fi #Challenger magazine #GDW #Game Designers' Workshop #alien #monster #Devil in the Dark #Pete Rogan

[arwendeluhtiene]

🎨Miniature painting (old work, mid-2000s, Games Workshop LOTR strategic battle game ✨⚔️ ): One of the most ambitious dioramas I've made to date, the confrontation between the Witch-king (here depicted as a standard Nazgul on Fell Beast) and Gandalf the White on Shadowfax, during the siege of Minas Tirith, with Pippin having just fallen at the side, and some Gondorians in the background. The Fell Beast is standing a bit precariously, so a couple of rocks are there to stabilize it xD

🎨ArtStation

🎨Instagram

🎨 DeviantArt

#tolkien #miniature painting #lotr #lord of the rings #games workshop #games workshop miniatures #gandalf #witch king #nazgul #gandalf the white #pippin #gondor #gondorians #set design #lotr miniatures #lord of the rings miniatures #tolkien miniatures #My art #witch king of angmar #ringwraiths #fell beast #middle earth #minas tirith

[vintagerpg]

Rebellion Sourcebook (1988) is probably the moment MegaTraveller shines at its brightest. Yes, I know lots of folks hate the Shattered Imperium, but let’s put that to one side.

The sourcebook is dense with information, primarily detailing the THIRTEEN factions of rebellion that have risen up in the wake of the assassination of the emperor. Some of these are legitimate claimants (like the various royal houses), others are opportunistic (like the alien nations that are taking advantage of the withdrawal of the Imperial fleet to the core worlds to conduct raids and territory grabs). Long histories and complex motivations fuel all the factions and the book is at its best when it is laying these sorts of details out. There is so much potential energy here, so many story threads, you can take this rebellion just about anywhere. It all feels interesting and, especially compared to other galactic science fiction of the time, very different (compare to, say, the political minimalism of the Star Wars rebellion). Politically complex. Though, I have to say, it is weird that everyone seems pretty committed to feudalism in this particular future — none of the factions have an obvious interest in democracy or socialism, both of which have fueled most of our real world rebellions.

A large-ish portion of the book is dedicated to the positioning of the Imperial fleet and their subsequent movements at the onset of the rebellion. Those bits read like groundwork for a wargame (though I don’t honestly know if they made one — the precedent is there, though, considering The Fifth Frontier War game).

I like the cover by AC Farley a lot. It sort of incongruously reminds me of Red Dawn.

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #Roleplaying Game #D&D #dungeons & dragons #Traveller #MegaTraveller #GDW #Game Designers' Workshop #Digest Group #Rebellion

[vlepkaaday]

OK so I don't play Tyranids. I don't even own a single Tyranid model :D But for whatever reason I became a go-to person to get a logo for your Warhammer Tyranid Fleet :D Here are some comissions I did this year in a Tyranid theme :D

#tyranids #nids #40k #warhammer #warhammer 40000 #games workshop #army logo #logo design #fleet

[oracleandbone]

Hello! We have an update regarding the live workshop that we’ll be facilitating in Taiwan. Registration is required to attend in person. Please see Goethe-Institut’s official website for more information and a registration link. Other panels will be free to attend without registration. 

We will have special posters available at the event. We look forward to seeing you!

#a summer's end #visual novel #game exhibition #lgbtq+ #taiwan #game development #A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986 #In the Ocean I Learned to Float #Oracle & Bone #game workshop #game design #asian lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia