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Wargaming and Heaven Will Be Mine

If you enjoyed our episode on 'Heaven Will Be Mine'—a game in which space is characterized as both playground and battlefield for its young cast—we strongly recommend you check out Asterisk Magazines' recent interview of Jon Peterson in which he traces the evolution of wargaming throughout history:

Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement.

And on the off chance you haven't already heard it, we do still recommend our own coverage of the game (warts and all):

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Superman featured in Action Comics #651 -March 1990- DC Comics

The Day of the Krypton Man: part 3 "Not of This Earth"

writer: Roger Stern

artists: George Perez, Kerry Gammill & Brett Breeding

letterer: Bill Oakley

colorist: Jon Peterson

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Guiding Principles

"Even in theory, a 'game' like Dungeons & Dragons is less a game than a game system, and in practice it's less that than a system for designing a game system." - Jon Freeman, quoted in Jon Peterson's The Elusive Shift

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As alarming as the notion that “there is no such game as Dungeons & Dragons” might have been to Gygax and his colleagues, it also boded poorly for any competing designs as well. The sheer prevalence and scope of variant implementations of D&D deflated any presumed urgency to base a campaign on any “next-generation” system published outside the D&D franchise....If every published design represented only a starting point for a lengthy and open-ended process of patching or extending rules, then how much did it matter whether the referee based a game on D&D or on any of its competitors of the era?

Whether a set of variant rules had achieved sufficient autonomy to warrant designation as an independent game also had no objective markers: as Lee Gold would advise in 1977, “If your house rules run more than thirty pages, I suggest you consider you’ve invented a new game and copyright it." It was not hard to hit that mark because everyone was constantly hacking the system. Kevin Slimak, feeling “tired of trying to kludge a good game out of Gygax D&D,” decided on a solution: “Stop pretending to be playing D&D; call the game something different and rework/rewrite the rules to my own taste.”

—Jon Peterson, “The Elusive Shift.”

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