LEGO WARGAMES at GenCon!

[Jeph]

From the BrikWars home page, Mike Rayhawk writes:

GLUG, the Gaming Lego Users' Group, was formed in the beginning of March by James Brown and Chris Weeks._ Originally inspired by the need for an official group name to run LEGO-themed events at GenCon '03, it looks like GLUG is expanding its mandate to include all aspects of LEGO gaming. This could be a real godsend, let's hope it takes off.

And speaking of LEGO-themed events at GenCon, it looks like there's going to be a whole track of them._ From Chris Weeks in lugnet.fun.gaming:

"The inaugural meeting of GLUG will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana from 24-27 July, 2003 at Gen Con. This year's Gen Con will see the first ever track of LEGO-related games which will include at least: Brik Wars, Evil Stevie's Pirate Game, LEGO Wars: The Short Version, and Mechaton. Details of the events are still being crafted (and we'd love to have more)."

A bit more about Lego wargaming: It all started with LegoWars, an ingenious wargame by the two . . . erm . . . geniouses, Eric O'Dell and R. Todd Ogrin. The advent of this completely free, web-based game spawned a huge mass of other Lego wargames. Sadly, The Lego Group experienced a bit of name envy, and shut down the Lego Wars and Lego Wars II games, due to their unauthorized use of the word Lego. I mean seriously, just . . .

Anyway, the gallant chaps that they were, a couple of froods decided to save LegoWars. So, they copied word for word, except they changed every occurance of Lego to Brik. And now, three or four editions later, is the amazing BRIKWARS, owned by Mike Rayhawk.

The original Lego Wars and Lego Wars II are still around, on a number of websites dedicated to preserving these wondrous relics. However, their creaters are apparently hiding, as they don't post on LUGNET, don't have a tracable email, etc.

Other well-known Lego wargames include Steve Jackson's Evil Stevie's Pirate Game, Lego Fantasy Battle, Renegade Bricks, and on and on.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Man...I'll play that!

We've used little Lego..er..brik guys in D&D for ages, and it works like a charm (You can clip different weapons, armor, capes helmets etc on them..as well as wizard hats, staves wands and what have you)

This will be so much fun!

 

[mistergone]

Where can you get the rules? The latest edition of Brikwars, I mean.

 

[thundershot]

www.brikwars.com



Chris

 

[Horacio]

Brickwars is a wonderful and flexible little game, ideal for a fun afternoon with friends.

 

[Skarp Hedin]

Sadly, The Lego Group experienced a bit of name envy, and shut down the Lego Wars and Lego Wars II games, due to their unauthorized use of the word Lego. I mean seriously, just . . .

I don't want to seem nit-picky, but in The LEGO Company's defense, they're required to defend their trademarks or risk losing them to the public domain. That's the same reason they ask you (or used to ask you, I haven't see the little request lately) not to refer to the bricks as "legos" but rather as "LEGO bricks".. they apparently don't want to wind up like kleenex, since whenever anyone means "paper nasal tissue", they say kleenex more often than not. Gotta keep that profit share safe from Megablocks! Hehe.

That said, LEGO rules. I've never played Brikwars, but it looks pretty cool