Gamers & Grodnards' Proposal

[Jeff]

Greetings.

Was reading some random blogs and came across Gamers & Grodnards about the death of Ray Harryhausen and a suggestion that there be a blogfest on Friday to honor the man.

http://gamersandgrognards.blogspot.com/2013/05/rip-ray-harryhausen-way-to-honor-him.html

Seeing how I almost missed this and because I thought it was a wonderful idea, I thought I would post this to the list in case anyone had some good blog idea that they could do in this regard.

So happy blogging.

- Jeff

[VBWyrde]

You know... it makes me wonder ... is there any connection at all between Harryhausen's work and the miniatures we use in gaming?  I almost have to suspect that there is.  Anyone happen to know? Literary Role Playing Game Society of Westchester http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/LRPGSW --- On Wed, 5/8/13, Jeff <kd7...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Jeff]

I would not be surprised at some level. That would make a good topic for a blog post if anyone knew.

[Norman Harman]

Miniature wargaming is old.  Chess precursors are arguably its forerunner. Became popular in modern form ~100 years ago thanks to H.G. Wells http://theminiaturespage.com/ref/minigide.html#history

It's more likely that they inspired Harryhausen. 

[Daniel Lefebvre]

Gygax actually started off creating an army figs games... 

[Mike Bourke]

There were wargames before Gygax. Minatures gaming with scale ships took place preWWII in the homes of some of the founding fathers of SF like L Sprague de Camp. They invented many of the concepts apon which subsequent wargames were based, which eventually evolved into Chainmail (amongst many others) which then became the foundation for D&D.

 

Mike Bourke

Campaign Mastery http://www.campaignmastery.com

Co-author, Assassin’s Amulet http://www.legaciescampaignsetting.com

 

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[Lizard Lizard]

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[VBWyrde]

http://www.skirmisher.com/node/162 hah.  The Gygax Connection.   :)

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