Writing Our Own Chapters - An Index of the Unknown Review
Buckle up folks, I’m a bit giddy about this one. My very first article for this blog was about my love for narrative. I talked about how I first came to wargaming as a storytelling exercise, before I discovered RPGs, and how my love for Malifaux is rooted in the evocative nature of its rules and how they make the game world come alive narratively. In many ways this article feels like coming full circle. I’m here once again to talk about narrative and storytelling in my favourite miniature game in the context of a review of the campaign mechanics of Index of the Untold , the first expansion for Malifaux 4 th Edition. Given my origins in wargaming, it should come as no surprise that I am a huge fan of campaign systems. I’m currently wrapped up in two different campaigns for other games, I’ve played in half a dozen or so in the last couple of years, and I can’t wait to get the ball rolling in Malifaux. In some ways I’m shocked that we never had a campaign system for 3 rd Edition....
