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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8662113" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I think the ORIGINAL 'Braunstein Scenario' was a siege of the mythical town of Braunstein, and because there were so many players available some were assigned these roles like "Mayor" and whatnot that were only tangentially related to the wargame part. Apparently those players basically just went 'off the rails' and started directly RPing with each other. Wesely actually considered it a huge fiasco, but it was so popular with the players that he and Dave and a couple others reran that scenario a number of times. After that was when they invented 'Banania' and the whole coup scenario, etc. which entirely eschewed maps and such. So, yes, there were 'Braunsteins' that lacked maps, but I'm pretty sure the Brownstone Campaign had some mapping and was more extensively involved with combat stuff. I suspect it was the inspiration for the game Boot Hill, though I don't really KNOW that. Boot Hill certainly appeared quite early in TSR's history.Obviously Blackmoor had some kind of map from pretty early on, though it and Brownstone might not have used them from day one, there's sadly not a lot of info online at that level of detail. Heck, maybe you know something about it if you were gaming with those guys back then. I was a few 100 miles away in Ohio back in those days playing around with 15mm minis.</blockquote>