Rangers of Shadow Deep, anyone?

Hey gamersplaners!

So, as I have had less and less time in my life to play, much less plan, full blown rpg campaigns, I have started looking to skirmish wargames and the options and viability out there for using th at gaming-medium to simulate or paralleling the rpg hobby...

This search brought me ultimately to Rangers of Shadow Deep.

It's a skirmish wargame, yes, but it is designed to be played cooperatively - so, you're playing WITH your friends not AGAINST them, and it's scenarios and missions follow a serialized campaign structure, and focus on storytelling and atmosphere, in addition to clue finding (along with the standard treasure hunting, murder-fest).

Anyone else here have the game?

And now that I'm dabbling in it IRL, I've of course also started wondering about it's viability for PbP...

:P

Yes I have it and it inspired me to make scenery and paint minis. It's well done and fun to play. I didn't know anything about PbP at the time, but maybe.

Nice. I like minis, but I hate painting minis... and so one of the things I liked about it was that it wasn't all stuffy about minis like Warhammer can be. But I did get more interested in terrain (even got some foam carving tools 😳).

So did you try it in the end? Did you found a way to play it PbP/on-line in async mode? If not: with what skirmish system did you end? Are you playing something right now?

I' very curious, because for quite some time now I'm thinking about combining some RPG system with skirmish system. One - of course for narrative aspect, the second for the fluid fight. I really liked what I have seen in Frosgrave rules - and wanted to add to it more RP aspects.

Recently I'm considering mixing Ironsworn: Starforged with Stargrave... but haven't have time to sit to it so far. Any insights?

I don't have RoSD but I do have Five Leagues from the Borderlands. An rpg-esque campaign system, for a company led by a captain or hero. The company are tasked with saving a region from three different forms of threat. Along the way various encounters, twists, side-quests can be generated by the campaign tables. Combat/adventuring phase, followed by rest, refit and training phase before planning the companies next steps. Combat can be rather brutal but is modifiable. A skirmish wargame for up to 8 characters in the company. Solo, but either the company could be split for coop fighting in the combat phase, or the other play could run the enemy during combat. My campaign is several turns in and set in Tolkien's Middle Earth. A company of Rangers in Old Arnor long years before the days of the Hobbit. Log and pictures posted at Facebook site 'Wargaming in Middle Earth.' 15mm scale.