Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Overkill or not enough?

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Why can’t the fictional crowd do so as well ?

@limburger (great #rant 🙂 ), as @sundancer points out IP is a big factor for the specific requirements of many fictional games.  That said, I’m old enough to remember when it was very unusual for games companies to be able to get the rights to many IPs.  Wargaming was considered too small for the owners of most IP rights to be bothered with granting them.  The exception was Middle Earth as Tolkien Enterprises was very active with their rights, perhaps a little too active as they kept shifting them every year or two in the 1980s!  To get around this absence we just worked with what there was.  I love Dune as a setting and would love to play an official game but without that we used to do it in 6mm in the early days where any discrepancies weren’t noticeable.  The most famous campaign in early wargaming history is Tony Bath’s Hyboria. This is the setting for Robert E. Howard’s Conan. This was played with flats/zinnfiguren and with a wide range of ancient and medieval historicals to choose from they found suitable proxies fairly easily.  The issue nowadays is we have official art/films/TV/graphic novels that take away the creative space for independent visions of the world in books.  You have clear and “official” depictions and anything else is just not the same for most fans.

On that subject anyone out there who wants to make an official Dune line of miniatures? You would very much have my attention/wallet 😀