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I immediately stopped testing and development on that version, then advised Ares I was withdrawing that prototype as a submission. I promised to work on it a bit more, but at a playtest a few weeks later, one of my playtesters commented at the end of the game, “This is very similar to the original board game I played last year, but with all the fun sucked out of it.” None of us had a great sense of what I could come up with given that my original concept document proposed a set of cards usable with the existing game, but I decided to keep working on the idea. What was obvious to Roberto Di Meglio and the team at Ares was that the War of the Ring game board and other components wouldn’t necessarily work for a Quartermaster General game, and they laid out the reasons logically enough that I was immediately convinced. (Welcome to the GAMA Trade Show!) Of course, they were kind to take the meeting to talk about a design that didn’t exist, and I was sure I didn’t want to start a project based on hard-to-get IP (intellectual property) without knowing there was a future. We had a nice discussion at the 2016 GAMA Trade Show that I almost missed because I was hung over. I thought about it a lot and drew up some ideas to present in person. After some back and forth, they turned out to kind of like the idea because my concept would be simpler, last about half as long, and be a team game. I decided to put my toe in the water and contact publisher Ares Games about the idea. We talked about how fun a version of Quartermaster General would be played on the War of the Ring board. We play a game almost every day, but we’re almost always playtesting a prototype, and we don’t end up playing other games that much. In 2015, Karin and I were playing War of the Ring, a rare luxury for us since forming Griggling Games, a game design studio. (Painted too well, in fact, since they invariably found their way into RPGs, then had to be tracked down when sitting down to play War of the Ring!) Karin and I played this title repeatedly, and it became the top pick for epic game days. A bonus was having cool miniatures that my wife painted. It reminded me a lot of the old SPI title, but with 25 years of game design innovation smoothing out the kinks, combined with a much more attractive presentation.

The theme wasn’t bolted on it was baked in, and that’s what we like, especially when it comes to Lord of the Rings. Of all these games, War of the Ring rose to the top for us. We bought and sold pretty much every Lord of the Rings game available, and there were good ones and some not-as-good ones. At the time, my wife Karin owned a little game store in Woodstock, New York (a store that we closed in 2007).

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