Martin Hackett's Fantasy Gaming

[xerxez]

I wrote a short review of Mr. Hackett's book at my blog which might be wortha peek if only to see his awesome model of the battle of the five Armies.

jennerak.blogspot.com/2011/06/obscuria-review-martin-hacketts-fantasy.html

Does anybody else own this and if so what do you think of it?

I got pretty excited when I first saw it couple years back, bought two copies, and then never ended up running a game of it, but I still love it being on my shelf as the source material for medieval social and magical orders is great.

[Deleted]

Good review xerxez. When James blogged about this a week or so ago I thought I had the same book, but the original version of it. I can see from your review that Martin Hackett greatly updated the book when he re-released it under its new title. The original book focused on the subject matter of its title "Fantasy Wargaming", and only introduced the subject of RPGs rather than detail any rules. For instance, the spell list contains only 64 spells, not the 300 that are in the later version. I see I'm going to have to track down a copy.

[xerxez]

Hey! I had no idea James had mentioned it as well. I've been meaning to write one for awhile as I really like the book and have used it's social order and equipment lists in some of my D&D games. The other book I have never even heard of, looks interesting. A good friend of mine spent a year teaching in Estonia and DM'ed a campaign while there.

[coffee]

I have it, but the formatting makes it a bit hard for me to get into (I've never been big on reading long lists of spell descriptions and such, and there's a lot of it in this thing).

But the pictures are nice, and it was pretty cheap at my local Half Price Books.

[thedegenerateelite]

I've owned this book for a long time and even read it from cover to cover once. His history of RPGs is somewhat faulty and more of a story of his own gaming history. The campaign details and rules are absolutely fascinating however. I would love to run and campaign using the background and armies presented using Chainmail a d 15mm minus at some point.

[dicebro]

I love this book. Using it now.

[thorswulf]

I have both editions, and I love the first far more than the second. The tone of the first is done with that of a gaming enthusiast. The second is more of a seasoned veteran with less of the spirit of the first.