The Secret Plan !

To answer some of Tim the Elder's recent questions . . .

At this point The Secret Plan is to host a 25 mm DBS game sometime this coming June to celebrate my 50th Birthday, which is in July. We'll set it up so that Tim the Younger and Poppa John will expect a regular Castle Devin game. That's the bait part. The switch is that their opponents will be my (finally) painted Ral Partha AElves!

Yes, I am definitely into playing more Castle Devin games before then! But without AElves. The AElves don't fight until June. (Unless I get enough painted early enough to test play a couple of private games with Tim.)

Once they cross into Wales and run into AElves we'll have plenty of opportunities later to either play some fantasy games (in Wales or elsewhere) or not. I don't want to mess up all of the hard work that went into the Castle Devin project by injecting fantasy ~ unless Tim is really into the idea.

We could play with the AElves, in the Castle Devin mileau, as a one off or they could be an auxillary venue or theme. That's Tim's decision!

The next addition I have, and it's a variation of an idea that I've had for decades, will I hope help to explain "AElves in Wales" (as opposed to "AElves in Space!).

Somewhere in Wales is the Citadel of the Evening Star. (The Citadel of the Evening Star dates back to my high school days. It was probably inspired by that great estiole on the Ral Partha AElves' shields.) As far as we know the Citadel is the last bastion of the AElves in that area. Yeah, guarding the passage West to the hidden lands ~ on in this case the main land far to the west . . .

I know it's not terribly original, but it gives us a tie-in to both Castle Devin and another whole area where we could play just "straight" fantasy when we want.

Somewhere I still have a continental map that I created for Ted and myself. His Empire of Hunche was to the North, my AElvish Kingdom of Snaggle was to the South, with the Great Northern Waastleand between us.

Hey, come on, we were in high school!!! Those names will need to change ~ though I'm sure we can find some use for them somewhere. (The Citadel of the Evening Star was originally the capital of Snaggle . . .)

Anyway, for now, there's a quick overview of some of what's in my head. All subject to change as better ideas come along!