Re: [DS]Campaign

Me !  I cut my teeth in minis with Rogue Trader, then got into 6mm 
sci-fi. That used to be mostly Battletech and Space Marine (Epic40K 
now). Both games needed work. Badly. Along with a single cohort I 
started a fanzine to fix Space Marine 2nd ed. Now, I'm a pretty lazy 
man, so if I start doing page layout (razor blade and glue at first) and

selling advertising I must be pretty well motivated, and SM 1st and 2nd 
really did need the help.

Then there were historical miniatures and I spent some quality time 
playtesting other people's rules.

Then I picked up DSII and FT, on the general good rep of British 
miniatures games I picked up from the historicals scene. What a good 
call that was. Designing stuff was a lot easier than, say Striker for 
example. And the command rules in DS2 were on par with Command Decision.

Not that I don't tweak the rules, but there's little need for fixing bad

ideas and ugly mechanics.

The rest you lot know.

Brian Bilderback wrote:

> I wrote:
>
>>> especially
>>> considering that it got its start from the designer being fed up
with
>>> the infelicities of Battletech.
>>
>>
>> That same frustration being the reason I bought DSII.
>
>
> Just out of curiosity, how many of the listers got into GZG the same 
> way I did - because we were introduced to SF gaming through other 
> games, got hooked on the genre, but came to realized said introductory

> game sucked?