"You told me," Adam says, turning back around. "You said They moved things on the table and sometimes threw dice after that. That was what made me sure it was War Gaming."
He is sure, too - and what a marvelous idea it is, a War Game with a whole world for a table! Half of him wishes he could have a chance to play too. Even when Helen jumps in to protest that the game that she saw Them playing wasn't really like that, he's already thought of an explanation. "It was the kind we call Fantasy War Gaming," he tells her, and takes Helen and Jamie over to see the other board set up, the one with traps and pitfalls and monsters.
"You make it sound a lot like one of my outside fantasy maps. Players can take over a fort in those. Oh, and a lot of emphasis is put on the endowments of the players' men - how strong they are, and whether they're fighting men or thieves or clerks and what class of man or magic user they've got to. Is your world like that?"
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He is sure, too - and what a marvelous idea it is, a War Game with a whole world for a table! Half of him wishes he could have a chance to play too. Even when Helen jumps in to protest that the game that she saw Them playing wasn't really like that, he's already thought of an explanation. "It was the kind we call Fantasy War Gaming," he tells her, and takes Helen and Jamie over to see the other board set up, the one with traps and pitfalls and monsters.
"You make it sound a lot like one of my outside fantasy maps. Players can take over a fort in those. Oh, and a lot of emphasis is put on the endowments of the players' men - how strong they are, and whether they're fighting men or thieves or clerks and what class of man or magic user they've got to. Is your world like that?"