Hi!
Well put. The two games try to emphasize different aspects of the game. Epic40k tried to emphasize the morale/victory aspect but killed the unit character, while Net Epic certainly has character, but morale is pretty much underplayed.
Also, if you play Net Epic, as a player you like tweaking, changing and otherwise pushing the envelop. You can't do this with e40k, because its very likely someone will wave a book at you and say "its not official" If you like officiality your probably not on this list.
<grin> the die type question. This has been taken on many times. Mostly it has been decided by majority to keep the d6. Like you I think GW's adherence to the d6 is one of the most retrictive things in regards to game design. Other die types give you SO MUCH leeway when designing and helps represent SO much more. There were some ideas to make net epic d10 based. Easy enough to convert everything. I would do the same wth epic 40k, I think it would benefit greatly from a higher die type. But convincing GW of that is very hard.
If you want to experiment on this please do, the little I have done regarding that issue lends itself to interesting results.
Peter
> -->This I don't think will happen, nor am I sure it should happen. Well,
> at least not in the way that I am thinking, which is probably off by more
> than a few degrees from what you are Peter. Adding depth to the units of
> E40K is one thing, and having layers of complexity is too. But I don't
> think you can, or should, try to evolve from E40K to NetEpic in one rules
> set. They're two different animals. But a more customizable approach to
> the E40K rules set would be a good thing. It worked as a concept and in
> practice for many a wargame of ages past. Look at most AH, VG, Yaquinto,
> or GDW games, and they were all set up generally with at least 2, if not
> 3 levels of complexity. This could easily be applied not only to E40K,
> but to NetEpic as well. People seem to forget that, as it once stated in
> the old ADnD DMG "all rules are optional." Don't like a rule? Don't use
> it, or change it. Want to try something not in the rules? Go right
> ahead. One of the advantages of NetEpic is that it's more malleable and
> "free form" than E40K, mostly because of the lack of corporate lines to
> be adhered to. If you play NetEpic, you don't have some one complaining
> that you're not using things as written (usually), or that if you opt to
> try something new, no one screams that it isn't "official." And if they
> do, just tell em it's a play test. 8) There is one very radical
> suggestion I'd like to make, but won't be taken seriously at all, and
> that is to get away from the d6 system. It is possible to keep the
> system very simple, with out using a d6. Switch instead to d100, and use
> even percentages for everything. You can incorporate just about
> everything you want this way, yet keep the dice rolling to a minimum. I
> may work on this as a side project, and see what comes of it. Who knows,
> maybe it'll give a new look and feel to things.
>
> Josh R
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Received on Wed Feb 13 2002 - 20:12:30 UTC