How do YOU play OPR?

I am not a Warhammer or 40K player. I have played GW's LotR game, as well as a lot of Epic.

My 28mm sci-fi gaming was mostly with The WarEngine, the rules behind Shock Force. I love the design system for that game.

For fantasy, I think a lot of Song of Blades & Heroes, though wish it would scale up a bit. I like the LotR rules, but wish it was a bit less about dumb things from movies.

I have used Grimdark Future for individually mounted 6mm figures. I still play a hexified Epic 40K for mass 6mm, but it is easy to have a small battlefield and to own several armies when one can be made from a single old box of Epic figures.

I've been using Age of Fantasy for LotR elves vs goblins, using the Warhammer stats, which are close enough. I think those have been the most fun.

I'll admit that the OPR rules may be slightly on the too simple side, though not on the game mechanics. I'm thinking about the things that add tension, story, and suspense. The scenarios are over too quick for much maneuvering. But I think I could add a bit, like individual or group secret objectives. But having the game rules themselves be extremely simple, and available on one page, is a big plus. I slow down too much for almost any question I have to look up. My GDF games have been just a bit ho-hum because of that, but some investment in scenario should help. I think my AoF games have had a bit more of "OK, we can't get through here, let's try over there."

My other gaming interest is 15mm Quar (from Zombiesmith), using Chain of Command rules. Those rules, while basically simple, are much more complex than OPR. But they excel in helping tell the story. The command dice add uncertainty, while Jump-off Points get you away from lining up on each side and just moving forward. Great stuff.

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Also I generally have tended to play beyond the standard 4 rounds recommended in the rules. So far it's been a general deatmatch as that's an easy plan to get new players involved but I think in the future I'll probably have a sudden death scenario play out after round 4, maybe where a randomly assigned objective becomes the main focus.

To me, there are no ties. One player wins or the other loses, or in a campaign certain objectives completed others failed. But once again that's more of a role playing viewpoint than a competitive play viewpoint.

I got in because I was introduced to Miniatures games with Infinity, and I dumped 250$ on them just as everyone else up and quit playing. They got to shine again for a little while as Blood Bowl minis (I was playing an all female army, and in Blood Bowl, I was playing the Amazons, so that worked out). Also during all of this, Emperor TTS got me even more into 40K than ever, and I stumbled upon the OPR rules through 1d4Chan. Since then, I've been playing with Roll20 and Tabletop Simulator.

I first got into 40k when a friend introduced me to the RPGs almost 10 years ago, when Dark Heresy was the only gameline for it. I grew interest in the setting from there, but I never had the money to get minis. Years later, a completely unrelated friend bought me Tabletop Simulator. I used that for a while, but never played the wargame for 40k because I already read and memorize massive rulebooks for roleplaying, I didn't want to put in that much effort into a more expensive army men game. Not to mention that most RPG books were thinner than 40k's.

Then as I was browsing 1d4chan I discovered OPR. That plus TTS's Workshop mods means I can finally play it without absorbing a mountain of rules or pay any money that goes to feeding my 5-year-old son!

35 years playing, thousands of mininiatures of varied themes and companies... and looking for an universal system, I found warstuff. And then opr. Best system. Ever.

In fact, I first discovered Kings of War from mantic games (which is still my main miniatures games), and I just loved it ! It was at the same time balanced, a simple ruleset, but tactically challenging, using my old warhammer miniature...

I then looked for something that would be the same in a scifi settings, but there was nothing, and I discovered what was (at the time) OnePage40k. Dude, that was fun ! It was played quickly, the alternate activation added some tactical aspect, and last but not the least, the format looked more like what a firefight should be (and looked more like the 40k 2nd edition with which I started 20 years ago) rather that the insanely huge WW1-like meatgrinder that 40k had become. I even tried to add some homerules to make grimdark future more flexile and tactical.


I managed to proposed to some people to my gaming group, who liked it but had stopped to play with the 40k 8th edition (arrgh, fanboys !!). I personnally still prefer Grimdark Future (much faster, much more tactical, look less like a mess on the board due to less miniatures)

Currently, when I can do a game, I will use miniatures:
Mantic corporations as Human Defense forces
Mantic Enforcers as battle Brothers
Mantic Forge fathers as battle Brothers (should really start to work on some homerule for them)

Oh, and one last thing, people playing Grimdark Future are much more tolerant to proxies (sounds weird, but I have a couple of friends that have no issue playing against my mantics miniatures in a grimdark future game, but the same people were less happy when I brought the very same minis in a 40k game).

Trying to get some games of Age of Fantasy:Skirmish in lately with my father, now that my wife, the kids and I have moved in next door to my parents, so hopefuly I get him to be a regular game partner.

I love how both Grimdark and Age of Fantasy utilize the same ruleset, so I can play 4 styles of game (skirmish and army scale of each) and only have to teach slight variations of the same rules. Absolutely great work.