Mali Powstańcy: Warszawa 1944
Check out Little Insurgents, a board game about the Warsaw Uprising.
Fair Play
Your therpgsite.com Update
About a year ago there was a flurry of interest and/or outrage about Grey Ranks over at therpgsite.com. I went over there and had some good conversations. There was shouting nerdrage, but there were also curious people willing to give and take, listen, discuss. I don’t know if I changed any minds but at least I felt like people engaged with me, and it was an overall positive experience.
I went back over there recently because a thread had started about Jeepform, prompted I guess by the DJA nomination. The place has changed – most of the thoughtful people appear to have fled, and it has turned into a very hostile echo chamber. Populist absolutism is pretty much the order of the day. Nobody is listening and the level of paranoid rage seems to have been ratcheted up. It was really striking.
Medical Hospital Sheets
The procedures are the heart of Medical Hospital, and I want them to be easy to create. Playtest feedback indicated that the super detailed, Gray’s Anatomy style images added a level of confusion but not an equal helping of fun. I had counted on the “fog of war” aspect, but it really is a bit too much.
I’m thinking now that I’ll divide the human body up into 18 sheets, at least initially. Each sheet will show the relevant organs and bone structures and blood vessels for basic play, and future sets can be all orthopedic, all vascular, whatever. If these are sized consistently (the sample is 8″ by 10″ which seems right), individual sheets can also be blown up into four quadrants for detailed work, like mitral valve replacement or whatever. I like this model a lot.
The keys will be to nail the level of detail and get a great, stylish artist to build out these sheets in a simple, colorful, accessible style. More thought required!
The sample above is the lower right abdomen, so that giblet-looking mess is the kidney, a loop of duodenum, and the devilish pancreas. I put a number on each physical feature and sprinkled a few around for “cut from #13 to #45, avoiding the artery” type instructions.
Warsaw Uprising Anniversary Pictures
My friend Frederik Jensen visited Warsaw and all I got were some lousy (if by lousy you mean awesome) pictures of Uprising reenactors.