The Culture: Going Deeper Into The Roots

And yes, Jeffro is still putting in work to make the hobby better.

The weird consensus that emerged across countless tables that the AD&D weaponless combat procedures are unplayable is just completely off the wall. That the complaints against these rules came from people that would dismiss old school era D&D combat as being dull and devolving into people taking turns bashing each other with a sword…? Even crazier! It really is a shame that people overlooked the awesomeness of these rules for so long. Just think of how uninspiring cavalry charges ended up being in countless campaigns due to people not using the overbearing table!

- Jeffro Johnson

Read on Substack

The video, by the way.

And here's a few books to get you started:

• Donald Featherstone’s Wargaming Campaigns
• Tony Bath’s Ancient Wargaming: Including Setting up a Wargames Campaign and the Hyborian Campaign
• Wargaming Campaigns by Henry Hyde

(NB: I have these on a Wish List also.)

There's more there to read, but these are good starting points.