Squalor and Dice

  The original WARRIORS OF ATHENA came to my attention sometime during my FROSTGRAVE days, when McCullough had been playing with the captain rules and exploring the ideas of what would become Rangers of Shadow Deep. As an aside, I love how transparent Joseph's work is, in demonstrating how the ideas build off one another, each fresh release incorporating the lessons learned from the last. Anyhow, in 2016 the original Warriors game appeared in the pages of Wargames: Soldiers & Strategy , and in time I found it. Having grown up with D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths , and with nightmare-memories of Ray Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts, I was immediately struck and had to learn more.  It was a very short article, about five pages long that not only converted the Frostgrave rules to fit the period and low/no magic of it all, but also supplied a campaign and a lightweight leveling system. I ate this up especially given my less is more sensibilities (which even Ash Ba...