campaigns

An Interview With Aaron Dembski-Bowden

A quick foreword: I would just like to say my deepest thanks to Edwin Moriarty and James M Hewitt for helping this come together and to Aaron for not only agreeing to be interviewed but writing the level of depth that...

Goodbye, 8th edition: The best games I played in the best edition (so far)

I started playing Warhammer 40,000 in the summer of 1996 with the release of Codex: Chaos in 2nd edition. From then I played pretty regularly through about 2003 when, disgusted with the 4th edition Codex: Chaos Space Marines and...

The Narrative Forge: Making Your Own Characters, Part 1 – The Rules

There’s more to gaming life than the endless core gameplay loop of rulebook missions and ITC events! In the Narrative forge, we explore Narrative Play, looking for ways to tell stories on the tabletop and enhance play experiences by...

The Narrative Forge

There's more to gaming life than the endless core gameplay loop of rulebook missions and ITC events! In the Narrative forge, we explore Narrative Play, looking for ways to tell stories on the tabletop and enhance play experiences by...

Narrative Forge: A History of Campaigns in the Mortal Realms

Age of Sigmar was created, somewhat infamously, to allow narrative battles to occur. While the game would eventually go on to build the three game types that have become associated with Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40k (Open, Narrative...

The Narrative Forge: Campaigns, Part 7 – Map Campaigns

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

Necromunday: Starting a Campaign

Welcome back, scummers! Here at the Goonhammer offices we’ve received a number of requests recently to talk more about campaigns and now that we’re done with our gang guide-related obligations, we can finally talk about everything you need to...

Narrative Forge: Making Your Campaigns A Success

You know how we dissect every part of the competitive meta on this site? Really get into the reeds about what owns, what does not own about a codex? Talk about the best way to win ITC games? You...

The Narrative Forge: Campaigns, Part 6 – Experience and Levels

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...

The Narrative Forge: Battlezones (With Updated Zone Mortalis Rules!)

The Warhammer 40,000 universe is a massive place, and the “Narrative Forge” hobby articles encourage thinking outside the box (literally) when putting models together and stretching yourself out in the hobby. They aim to make hobbyists and players comfortable...