Fandex
There's an interesting phenomenon in the gaming hobby. I am referring to the phenomenon of home brew games and army lists. Most fandoms and hobbies have an element of fans who go to the next level: railway modellers who try to recreate a specific date in a specific area, puzzlers who analyse and theorise as to how clues are developed, fan-fiction writers, etc. In gaming, we have that too, with publishing houses built on games related fiction and even in-canon manuals, conventions and such. What really makes the hobby distinct is the home brew. Most, if not all, games we know and love today, and have played in years gone by, began as home brew systems, systems developed by players rather than professional designers, based on what they liked and disliked about the systems they were playing. Even the giant that is Warhammer, and the systems that spun off from that mighty root, began as a home brew system. That topic, thus, is a huge post, that I'm not writing tonight. This post ...