I thought it would be really cool to be able to play the Field of Glory Ancients and Medieval Tabletop online since the community is fairly small and scattered, near as I can tell. However, I did not want to proceed without confirming that I would be breaking any rules/laws/agreements.
Vassal Engine is an open source tool that allows you to recreate board games and tabletop games digitally.
I have done the following
- I created a Vassal Engine Module
- It does not contain any sections of information from the book
- It allows you to create generic "units" and change their icons to represent different status effects, but i gave it all the functionality necessary to play a simple FOGAM game
- The module only exists on my personal computer as of right now and I will not be uploading it until I can verify it follows all rules/laws/agreements
- It has enough functionality to play a simple, no terrain game, of Field of Glory
- Permissions to share the module to the community so that they can contribute to building it and play the game with players over the internet
- Permission to link the forum post on slitherine.com containing the Field of Glory rulebook in the modules description
- Permission to upload the module to the Vassal Engine Module database (in combination with point 2, this could attract new players)
- To share the module as I have created so far with an slitherine representative privately so they can verify none of their intellectual property is in the module
- if denied, keep the module for personal use only (i am using it to learn the game solo)
Ideally I would like to see module that the community can grow and improve in functionality that links to slitherines forums for any intellectual property (the rulebook, the army list etc) allowing players compete against player they would normally never be able to play against, while respecting slitetherines intellectual property.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing back from you, or if your a member of the community, your thoughts.
