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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 326952" data-attributes="member: 1645">We see some of D&D's wargaming roots:WW: Oh, like Panzer Blitz was a big one, Global War, Sniper.CP: Were those ones with the hex-grid boards?WW: Yeah, they had a 40-page rule book, and you’d play with your friend. And it ended up being… I mean, I think it would be excellent training for a lawyer. Because you’re sitting there, most of the time, arguing over interpretations of these very elaborate rules. And you could actually combine the rules and say, "well, this was in panic mode so he couldn’t go that far." "Well, my indirect fire has a three-hex radius of destruction." So you’d sit there and argue over this little minutia of the rules. And that was kind of half the fun of it—both of you trying to find the legal loopholes for why your guy didn’t get killed.</blockquote>