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Tabletop Wargames: A Designers' and Writers' Handbook

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Tabletop Wargames: A Designers' and Writers' Handbook

By Rick Priestley, John Lambshead

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About the book

Unlike chess or backgammon, tabletop wargames have no single, accepted set of rules. Most wargamers at some point have had a go at writing their own rules and virtually all have modified commercially available sets to better suit their idea of the ideal game or to adapt favourite rules to a different historical period or setting. But many who try soon find that writing a coherent set of rules is harder than they thought, while tweaking one part of an existing set can often have unforeseen conseq...Show more

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ISBN

9781783831487

Publisher

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Published year

2016

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1

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Tabletop Wargames: A Designers' and Writers' Handbook

Format

Paperback

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