Campaign I am Creating

So after 2 years of just mindless killing my friends and I wanted a campaign so we can kill for a cause. I spent the last week typing away to create a game that will give depth, be simple, and fun all at the same time.

General Rules and Description
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nLJMp1nXAK29x1-4ROwPrixmOXcaiHaorFBRCmyAh3Q/edit

The map of the Star System (Very ugly and very basic):
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1BjKYQV1DV2iRM4lXOUq4d1j_kvd3-UGYpFr8pZTZGV8/edit

The description of the Solar Systems and Planets (I have 3 systems to finish):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rzL9rQX4-HTBfoyGMgJ-7zqIbA9uO0qF3R8NQysTo7s/edit

Tell me what you think about everything, ideas to make better or things i should change or remove.

It looks like it would be a lot of fun to play. I like the Glory system, especially the details like the loss for making a tactical retreat. Very characterful!

I also like the planet bios, they bring it to life. Sort of like a menu- I mean, very descriptive Joking aside it would be good to use it to add to the background element of a game - taking a world because it used to belong to one's ancestors, for example.

I'll look forward to your reports of how it plays

Im glad you like it. I want it to be dynamic and fun without being annoying and i think i achieved it!

And once my armies painted ill have photo and wrtiten reports of everything

It looks good! My group is on our third campaign now and its usually me and another guy who put them together.

Few points learnt from experience:

• Player interest will wane, its just the nature of the beast no matter how good a campaign is. So have a contingency plan for players dropping out or having to mow their neighbors lawn. It happens. For this reason we usually run teams and allow for ringers to be recruited.

• Less is more. A few fun rules can go a long way. If you introduce too many then they complicate things or people just forget them. Home cooked rules also run the risk of unbalancing the game massively, so either keep them simple or test them for big gaping holes. Better still pull from GW (books like Apoc, planet strike. missions)

• Have a beginning and end, and think about 'events' to keep it fresh. A never ending campaign can kill it, so try and keep it snappy. You can introduce fresh events too. For ours we ran a tournament half way through, with the winners gaining a powerful weapon, which was a planet killer asset (yes you can literally remove a planet)

Heres our map, my team is the Cabal. (Wining!)

There will basically just be me and two others playing maybe 1 or 2 games a week. Its basically designed to give structure to our games, and keep us motivated to play our armies because we switch a lot.

MrBrokenAzs wrote:

There will basically just be me and two others playing maybe 1 or 2 games a week. Its basically designed to give structure to our games, and keep us motivated to play our armies because we switch a lot.

Sounds cool, you guys will have a ton of fun and be hungry for more. I'd much rather play a campaign than a tournament any day.