How to Write Rules
One of the great things about this hobby is that it encourages creativity. Painting miniatures, writing background stories, imagining the battle as it rages and coming up with new and interesting variations to spice things up all conspire to exercise the grey stuff. I like to read new ideas for unit types, new scenarios or full campaigns to play and I’m always interested in house rules and variant systems that other groups have adopted for their games. Obviously there’s a huge range in the quality and balance of these variants and so, I’d like to share some of my experience in writing rules to help others. Whether you are an experienced gamer who regularly comes up with new ideas or someone looking for a place to start I hope there will be something for you in here.
I’m going to try and cover a lot of ground and so I’ll break this guide up into several articles so that it doesn’t get too unwieldy. By the time we’re done I hope to have covered most of the areas for rules writing from variant units to entirely new systems.
