Saturday, September 28, 2024

Master Players' Book: The Siege Machine

The Master Player's Book provides statistics for siege equipment and fortifications, as well as a system for handling sieges, the "Siege Machine" (based on the "War Machine").


Seige equipment, Master Players' book (pg. 25)


Sieges in D&D owe their lineage to the Siege of Bodenburg, a medieval miniatures wargame, run at the first Gen Con in 1968

There were 2-3 pages devoted to sieges in the Chainmail rules by Gygax and Perren, which were themselves inspired by the Siege of Bodenburg.

The section on "Construction and Siege" in the AD&D 1e Dungeon Masters Guide (pgs. 106-110) also covers siege equipment and rules.

I've always thought it would be fun to run a siege involving the Keep on the Borderlands using one of these systems, although have never gotten around to it.

2 comments:

  1. Interesting you mentioned keep on the borderlands. Friend of mine who is our DM ran that scenario at a small convention where the players took a faction of the humanoids in the caves of chaos and work together to siege the keep on the borderlands. I thought that was a very fun idea and think it would be interesting to play so I totally agree with you on that.

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    1. Sounds like it was a blast! It would be interesting to know what siege mechanics he used. I would favor the 1e DMG ones, for the Keep (as they were both written by Gygax)

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