To an RPGer this is a wild notion. “Doesn’t this defeat the whole point of the game? Session play?”

Slowly in our clubs I see it dawning on us that we’ve had D&D backwards for 40 years. The campaign itself comes first in the original sense of the word.

In Tony Baths Ancient Wargaming you simply roll to see the resolution of combats, the entire point of the game is actually the intrigues, movements on the map and tracking the details of kingdom and man. Have an in depth tactical resolution, or not, the game as a whole is the point.

It is an utterly revolutionary concept, but we are circling back to the beginning of it all.

I’m beginning to see dawning, a hope for a hobby hidden and crippled for 40 years.