My Thoughts on Lore

I'm pretty much in agreement. I'm not here looking for a world to play in.

I feel similarly for names. It is useful to have names for stat lines. But, when I do battle reports, I won't be using OPR names. I mostly do fantasy, and my names are pretty generic. But on the occasional GDF game, I'll be using familiar names for the figures.

I do admit my battle reports need a bit more background. I don't like narrative stories in place of battle reports, but I've been too lazy to make names, decide a little more deeply why they're fighting, etc. I think it makes the reports less interesting.

But I acknowledge some folks feel differently. I'm not sure why, as there are plenty of backgrounds to work with. OPR provides nice simple rules to play in those backgrounds or self-created backgrounds. Just don't add lore that then needs to be supported in the rules, making standard lists drift from useful types. There are other games that look pretty simple (Mantic's Warpath Firefight, for example) that look almost as simple (if you include OPR's advanced rules). But they don't have either build-your-own systems or ready-useful stats/rules, and I'm not interested in their figures.

andy

I am not as good at long wordy answers, but I am in agreement with the people who posted before me. Keep it simple and generic.
Most of my time I more engage in tabletop RPGs rather than wargames, but something I tend to love to do is sometimes use One Page Rules stuff to represent big battles. I love that it's general enough to do that.

Serious question, not just arguing:
adeaddylan: Why does OPR need lore at all, whether separate or not?

The army designs need to be close enough to be used with miniature lines. If an army diverges from its inspiration, it won't be as useful. And we should be able to make armies that work with other figure lines as well. Since OPR isn't making miniatures, they need to make army designs that match existing ones. But why do the armies need lore at all?

Why not get your figures from one place, your rules from somewhere else (OPR), and your lore from wherever you like best? Why should OPR provide it?

For fantasy, I use GW's LotR figures (mostly), AoF rules (plus tweaks), and my own background. When I play GDF (admittedly I've only played 3 games, and not recently), I'll be using GW figures, GDF rules, and GW lore. (Actually, I don't use much of their lore. Just army names, figure names, and general style. It isn't important to me to be canonical.)

Seriously, I'm asking because I'm interested in your thoughts. Not just being argumentative.

andy