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OPR is great, however one thing I'll add is that while yes, the whole single page, simple thing is super cool and that's what makes it attractive, the additional rules in the $5 Patreon expanded rules can make the game satisfyingly dense if that's your thing. The nice part though is while they're adding complexity, it's all well done and builds on the rules instead of just jammed in because models got to get sold and a codex gotta sell.

Hell yes, OPR is far better on table, no dead time, real strategy even with low power units (gretchins/space goblins can steal the victory). My wife after the first 40k game : « Never again ! » After first Grimdark Future game : « Give me more ! » 😅

I support any rule set that lets you use your minis and avoid GW cash milking. Honestly they are out of control these days and only cutting back and starving GW out can anyone hope they change their path. I’ll give these rules a look.

Also, for those that are concerned about the lack of OPR Lore, let me in on you a little secret... I use my 40k war dollies for OPR and use all the GW terms and lore while doing it and I. Don't. Even. Care. Take that Mr. Workshop!

Grim Dark Futures reminds me of 40k 3rd edition (before all the codexs). It's well balanced and accessible. As a parent in his 30s I just don't have the cognitive space in my head to remember a myriad of rules of special powers... Screw command points or strategems... Just give me some men and some dice...

So here's my take on OPR's GF set of rules. The free version is the condensed, fits on a double page, beer and pretzles type of game. But if you join the Patreon for one month which is like five quid, you get the full set which is like... 30 pages? And you get access to the points builder which cannot be overstated in its usefulness since it allows you to build your own troops. My take on OPR's rule model is that it is _very_ similar to what's happening in the indie roleplaying game scene since a few years back. In that corner of the nerdy hobby space, a lot of effort has gone into making games that are easily accessible and above all "hackable". As in, everyone and their cousin are writing games, short games usually and everyone is borrowing ideas and rule mechanisms from each other. Making a variant of someone else's rules, to be used with those rules or as a separate system is called to do a hack. And that's how I see OPR's Grimdark Future. The rules themselves are a streamlined melange of different modern trends in miniature rules writing and they work very smoothly for their intended use. The smoothness and lack of involved mechanics is the whole point. The main advantage of this might be seen as being able to play the quick but tactical lite blaster bashes you describe, but in reality the thing is that you can so very easily modify and hack this system without the core rules breaking when you do so. Seriously, I'm currently using this set as the foundation for variants to play CthulhuTech mechas vs. monsters battles, Horus Heresy battles and a WW2 battalion level game. It really is that solid at its core to be able to take the additional rule add-ons to make very different feeling games. OPR's rules are the equivalent of building and kitbashing your own minis, but for rules. They're a hobbyist's rules, rather than a consumer's. THAT is how it differs from Warhammer rather than in perceived depth or width. GW has fed a generation of gamers to expect to be told how to play. OPR lets you play like you want to. This ofc means more work on the hobbyist's part, since you have to decide or find out what you actually want and why. But the thing is, the basic OPR set up is easy enough to rope people who haven't learned how to think for themselves when it comes to rules yet and still let them have a fun time blaster bashing their space toys off a table. Hopefully they'll come for the easily digestible entree and stay for the communal cook out. OPR is open source, mod friendly, community based gaming. GW is corporate force fed consumerism. I know where I want to play with my little space and fantasy toys. PS. Get well soon!

One advantage of the simplicity of the OPR rules is that they're so much easier to tweak if you don't like bits of them. I don't mind activating units alternatively, but activation like Bolt Action's dice-based method is fun, gives a similar feel and balances things better if the two sides don't have similar numbers of units.

One of the things that opened up OPR for me was the idea that you can combine.... any forces. So my Eternal Wardens can be joined by a large detachment of human soldiery from their home city, with cannons, pikes and golden giants smashing to earth from the heavens. Perfect, no need to remember rules, keywords, detachments, whatever. It's simple! I want a Lust Daemon army? Havoc warriors + some rift daemons and no one can say 'well you forgot that these don't fit into that force blah blah blah' as long as I stay within my points. Endless flavour to my armies, the only restriction is in tournaments 60% of your points must be from one force. It's amazing.

Wonderful to see you back! Hope you're feeling better

Great video! My 12yo son and I bought into 40k when the pandemic hit and we needed something that we could do. Bought all the minis, the books, etc., and then when it came time to play found 40k to be slow, cumbersome, and waaay to difficult for two new wargamers to play. My son especially found that waiting 45 minutes for his turn to be too length and well, boring. But we were totally hooked on the lore. Then I found OPR Grimdark and we've been playing ever since. The rules are fun, and with the complete rulebook, gave us more than enough variation to keep us interested. I found a sector map generator for Traveler RPG, assigned homeworlds to all our minis and we've embarked on a 1 year campaign to see who conquers all! And we've kept the lore from 40k that we both really love. We can play a game easily on a Saturday afternoon, probably two before we both want to veg out and talk smack to each other about the game we just played and the next to come. We love the 40k lore, the minis, but not the bloated slow-motion gameplay. So long 40k and thanks for all the fish!

Most important sentence - strategy comes using your units (attck, positions, etc), not from intereactions of rules. It just highlighted how bad it is with GW -> it is more about executing combos, like munchkin breaking ttrpg he plaied for X years

Last update balance messed up 5 out 6 of my Crusade forces. I was pissed off to no end. That, plus the ever-growing bloat of rule layers - army wide, faction wide, subfaction wide, auras, keywords combos, stratagems, etc. - pushed me to OPR once and for all, even though I was a Patreon subscriber since a few months. I combined a few house rules for command, shamelessly stolen from the old Dust Warfare rulebook by Andy Chambers, and I'm mighty fine. It's great to have rules for my tastes (suppression) and build small, thematic armies that are a pleasure to put together, paint, and play on the table. Won't be coming back anytime soon.

It's awesome to see a big name cover OPR!! Yes yes yes. The thing I LOVE the most is the alternating activations. Really keeps you in the game, and just like you said it helps stop 1-2turn wipes

Playing OPR for about a year now. Its so refreshing to play a few games, chat and drink some beer. Without permanently interrupted by searching the right rule reference or unit exception bla.

Thanks to your video I gave it a go and OMG this is just so good! One "rulebook", few "army-pages" and like a dozen battle report videos later I can easily say I'm in. Thanks for shilling for Grimdark Future. This is exactly what I needed in my life (and for my armies).

Grim Dark is a hark back to Warhammer 40k 1st edition in that it's designed to be FUN. And it does it pretty well as far as I can see. Love it.

All the best, Discourse. Take it slow even when you're getting better. Half of my colleagues have it at the moment, and this shit has a nasty habbit of coming back with a vengeance right when you start feeling better. As to OPR, I am a full convert myself. The best thing I can say about it is that the armies feel like their GW counterparts, without the rules clutter.

Grimdark Firefight and Age of Fantasy skirmish are also good alternatives to GWs offerings and are free. Though to be fair I’d have happily paid for both rulesets as they are that good.

Alternating activation is my favorite turn progression. I agree, there is nothing like waiting for a horde army to move 100-200 models, or watching your whole army melt away in one turn of shooting. I really want to get into One Page Rules. Plus Grim Dark Future is one system, there is a skirmish game, as well as Fantasy.

My favorite thing about OPR is that no matter what you're playing, the rules are basically universal across Grimdark Future and Age of Fantasy. Technically, (probably with minor adjustments) my Fantasy Empire army could go up against some Chaos Space Marines!

I would also mention that the Patreon also includes a points calculator that you can use to create custom units or adjust existing ones. Combined with 3D printing, it's possible to create an entirely unique army that fits within the rules. The calculator is not set to the latest beta ruleset at the moment, but it should be in time.

It is worth mentioning that being an OPR Patreon gets you access to the Point Calculator, allowing you to design or modify units. Which can be combined with other Patreons for other miniature creators. Print Minis, for a not-at-all-random example, creates minis for scenarios - with models from two factions and a monster or three thrown in. I get more use from Print Minis now, simply because now I have a rules system to hang the scenarios on. (More accurately, I statted Outbreak in an Evil Lab! for Grimdark Future: Firefight - and it was a blast. Not to mention, the 1960s Sci Fi TV feel of Outbreak in an Evil Lab! - I swear, it felt like something from Gerry Anderson.)

It is truly the golden age of miniatures. When I was a kid (back in the 80s) miniatures were mostly fantasy-themed and not very detailed. I had to travel 30 miles to a magazine and cigar/pipe tobacco store that also sold miniatures. The smell of pipe tobacco still takes me back... The store also sold swords hidden inside of walking canes. Man I really wanted one of those. Nothing suspicious about a 12 year-old kid with a walking cane right?

Wonderful Game system. You can pay a modest one-time fee for the expanded rules in lieu of the subscription. I have been gaming since the early eighties, and I have seen a lot of change in the various gaming business models. Grim Dark from OPR offers the player some unique aspects compared to the "established" gaming eco-systems. Chief among them are flexibility in miniatures on the table, and flexibility to mod and/or adjust the rules as the PLAYERS see fit. This leads to a much better experience, IMHO, than many of the other (overly complex and restrictive) rule systems out there. I highly recommend you give it a try.

Nice! I had heard of One Page rules. The alternating activation model makes me very open to trying the game. I have old Tyranid and Tau models I refuse to sell gathering dust I can use.

Great Job Discord. Make a follow up vid on Onepagerules $5 expansion book. It is 32 pages of optional rules that will make the game a complicated as you like. Totally worth the money and you get free updates to the book. So the Onepagerules name is misleading. They have universal strategems, extra actions, random events, battlefield condition, fog of war, suppression, and more. I really like one of the turn sequence options. just like Bolt action. Each player puts one dice for each unit in a bag. Then you draw a die out of a bag, if its your die you get to move a unit. So much fun.

My favorite thing I've seen of this game was a post on their subreddit, where a person was using what rubber ducks on what looked like jar lids for basses. You don't even need minis. You can just use ducks.

Games Workshop has always been a Miniature Manufacturer - not a Game Manufacturer. Creating Minis to play with them. So I think it is absolute fine & dandy if people who are much more skilled Game Designers are creating a Game - with which you can use any mini you want.

GDF's alternating activations are the way a tactical game like 40k should be played. Kill Team's 1st Ed was similar to that and got it right. I was hoping 40k 9th would go the same way. But then Kill Team 2nd Ed came, not a bad game, but not really necessary. What was necessary was fixing the 40k format. But since GW will never do that OPR did.

Really glad you've given this a try. Between this and BattleTech Alpha Strike, I feel like I have my wargaming needs covered.

I've been playing GDF recently, it's pretty good with some rules interactions that can use clarification. The army balance was off in previous iterations of the rules, but this has been addressed in the 2.50 beta. You can get those rules in their free web app army builder, which is an awesome tool.

Oh you are so right. 40K is such a hard intro game. You have to cash in so much money and buy so many different books and material to just understand the game and your own faction. Many people dont get that. I am a working man. I dont have time to invest 20 hours to just learn what Im supposed to do. And every time I do play against experienced players, they use their stratagems and weird aura combos to whipe the floor with me. The learning curve is veeery unforgiving. My first warhammer games took 4-5 hours a match, because we had to look so much into the rules. Grimdark Future is an awesome game! Its quick and easy to learn. I played some games with friends who never played tabletop games before and just after 2 turns they already knew what to roll and measure. I personally really like the fact that you can re-name the units in the army forge web tool, so you can actually use your Warhammer 40k names for the units so there is no confusion any more and it feels exactly like 40k.

Just downloaded all the pdf's, is there a mod for tts?

OPR are brilliant! The rules are simple fun and straight to the point. If you want more complexity just add more advanced rules into the game, that is one major point I love, can add any of as many rules as you want to craft a great mission/game. Nevermind the over 20 army lists for both sci fi and fantasy and how easy it is to make your own in game units. It is a true fan game, for fans, by fans.

The free rules are fine for trying the game out, but you need the full rulebook in my opinion if you're going to keep playing.

I somehow don't know. Isn't an integral part of the miniature game experience to be robbed, emotionally blackmailed and manipulated by a large corporation? Playing it just for fun and pleasure sounds like a strange and crazy new idea. But who can argue with "Carthago Delenda Est."? :-D

Really comprehensive vid as always. One page rules & grim dark future is definitely something I'm interested in exploring down the line. I think the only issue people might run into with it, is finding opponents in their area. Though I guess the Internet helps out a lot with that kind of thing these days.

It's worth mentioning that this game also has a SOLO option or "Same Side" where you could play with a buddy against an enemy controlled via a behavior chart of simple If/then arguments). Perfect for teaming up with newbies or kids against a mutual foe controlled by the game. I've seen a game bat rep video done with both sides run as "Artificial Intelligence" and it was a real nail biter. For those asking about the extras for the paid rules, the added content is not required to enjoy the game but really does give you a lot of options to play the way you want. Including multi basing smaller scale models. Hard agree on the wonders of OPR and some of the new forces in development (Jackals for example) are really interesting.

Looks like a great system i hope to check it out I'm curious have you tried any of the fantasy versions of one page rules if so how does it compare to warhammer fantasy or kings of war? Great video btw!

I am now 3d printing and painting my Orc army right now for my first game. One Page Rules is my first tabletop wargame. I always wanted to play Warhammer but never had the money to get into it.

I'm about to start teaching OPR to my 9 year old son. I'm almost done painting his "Space Hunters" (Deathwatch 😉).

Just two quick points here, Discourse: 1) As some of my fellow commenters have already said, there is a 5$ download, with a whole slew of interesting otional rules to give you some variety, and 2) The rules of chess fit on much less than one page. Would you call chess a game with the depth of a puddle? OPR just does what a GAME should do, and gives you miriads of intersting choices, with little to no rules to remember. All the complexity is emergent from the situations.

OPR is responsible for me getting back into the hobby. I like painting, but without a game to play them with, it's not that enticing. The simplicity of OPR is definitely a feature, not a bug.

I love the art work in one page rules, very much back in the standard of Rogue Trader, Traveller RPG and some of the early copies of White Dwarf when I first started playing.

You're doing the Emperor's work, Discourse. Throne bless you.

I love OPR. It's a great system and since I discovered it it is all play. Even my youngest Son loves it. It is easy to explain the rules to a 9 year old boy and a few games and he knows the rules of his army very well. With 40k...not so easy.

Do one page rules seem similar to kill team abit on a bigger scale??

Happy to see you back and healthy. Loved this video. Would also add that, for a noob like me, its sometimes difficult to figure out what mini to use based on a name and stats on OnePageRules. Not always sure if the unit is a mech or a well armed soldier or a vehicle when all I have to go on is "Destroyer" as a unit's name. But I'm having so much fun printing and painting, it is a very small negative note. Cant wait to play my first game. Lol

Welcome to the OPR community Discourse!

After Years passed to buy tons of books and miniatures, I’m thinking about OPR GF as a good and healty way to continue to play with my 4 armies. My books help me for all the background I need, but now I’m free to think about playing without worries about the new edition, metagame etc. Thank You Gaetano (OPR CEO)

I want to try one Paige rules I’m just trying to figure out how the wounds work cause some of the units don’t say how many wounds they have

Standees do not get enough love, that OPR is touting them as a serious alternative makes me very happy indeed!

I miss the days of 4th and 5th when things seemed to be a lot better. Of course I play BA so 5th had to be fun for me.

I'd like to try 2nd ed but not sure how/where to start

Arbitor Ian! Yes! Also, I really like the way that you talk. Your voice tone, cadence, emphasis, sounds great! Your presentation keeps me interested and engaged in the discussion.

Glad to see you back in action buddy. Sorry that you got sick but you seem to be back and swinging for the fenses. Excellent video, I've been interested in playing OPRs and glad to have you give a review.

Honestly, the fact that we can use any 3D models for an army is incredible: there are some INSANE models available to use

OPR works great as a framework if your making your own tabletop game. It helped me fast track my rules for my AoS alt game.

Some perspective from an old(ish) gamer. Nothing is as unaccessable to a new gamer as Starfleet Battles was. It was the third tabletop game I played, and I bought all three rulebooks (all printed in 12-10pt type, and each around 300 pages). The One Page Rules stuff is amazingly approachable in comparison, and quite a lot like Rogue Trader.

Hi, I am a 40K fan of Japan. Japan and Australia have always been 40% more expensive. And will continue to be.

Love mee One Page Rules 'Ate Games Workshop You're right that Grimdark Future is a very shallow game but, I'd argue that's one if it's biggest strengths because you can loot and implement your own ideas or, systems from other wargames, on top of the existing rules with relatively little fuss which I think in today's world of WYSIWYG and, rules as written vs rules as intended, is a feature that doesn't get enough credit (it's the same reason I enjoy D&D 5e, though I am looking into other systems) Also I'm relatively new to the hobby and have had a lot of bad experiences so my opinions are not universal, just giving my two cents

also i want to add that the complexity of the game is being developed by the expansion and optional rules. in my first game i thought the same as what you said about loosing deepness from 40k, but there is more content for members and the calculators with formula for special abilities and related point cost calculation for everything in the game. 👍 thanks again for the vid!

Wargaming is already an expensive hobby that makes video games seem cost-effective by comparison. Adding in more rules and books to read makes 40K more of a chore than a hobby. No wonder other series have taken their own shot at making a more approachable wargame. By the by, nice to see you again, Discourse! I hope you're feeling better!

Flames of war has a similar problem to WH40K with 3 game periods, late, middle, early, and then books for theatres of operations and army composition’s, it's stacking up

I remember when OPR was in it's infancy... Just the website and drive link... Ah, to see them grow! I think I might even have a few copies (hard copy prints) of the original rules somewhere... Reminded me of a similar, older, one page set of rules called FUBAR by one of the authors of "In Her Majesty's Name". Excellent concepts, and I'm happy to see the refined version catching on like it has over the last decade.

I've been very tempted to try OPR but to be honest I'm up to my eyeballs in crusade rules and things for Wh40k. I *like* the persistent storytelling potential of Crusade. Is there anything similar for OPR? Either earnable upgrades or whatnot?

Woop ! OPR Rules !

I think the best option would be to use the rules and army lists from OPR, and only buy the campaign books from GW. That way I can still play in the 40k setting,but not spend hundreds of dollars on multiple codices.

With me, BattleTech was my first war game and I think it’s perfect for most starters. Simple rules, small armies, snappy combat, and options for both more simple (Alpha Strike) and more complex (BT Advanced) rule sets.

Can we pray for a Discourse / Arbitor Ian / Snipe & Wib collab one day? I haven't played tabletop miniature games in a LONG time but I'd love to see my fave WH40K-based content creators team up!

Good video! A quick question - - I was curious about what had happened to the giveaway announcement from a weeks ago. I realise that you've been sick recently, and other stuff has cropped up, so I hope things can get straightened out once you've recovered fully.

Awesome. I'm planning to give their Age of Fantasy: Regiments rules this week. My first impression is that it's a great introductory system, though I miss the units running around in panic from the oldhammer rules 😁

The point about the strategy coming from how units are used on the table, rather than from interactions of complicated rules, is so important to stress when talking about One Page Rules. The game is relatively simple, mechanically, but it's not a brain dead game for babies. It has tactical nuance and depth, that only becomes apparent during play. Much of the appeal of 40K's complex rules and interlocking systems is, I think, not practical tactics. Rather, it's a game that front-loads its tactical decisions at the list-building stage, and rewards rote memorization of rules interactions. You will, a great percentage of the time, have won or lost before you even set up your board. And the only unpredictability comes from the roll of the dice (which half of the army-building options exist explicitly to mitigate anyway) and from whether you can remember more arcane bullshit than your opponent. (Honestly, 40K is low-key ablest and classist. The former because you need to have the best memorization powers, to just know how to game the system. The latter because you need to have the time, money, and energy to keep up with a constantly shifting, complicated, and costly meta.) Some people may enjoy the complexity of 40K. While I can hardly discount their fun, I must ask whether they actually enjoy playing the game itself, or if they simply enjoy solving the puzzle that is 40K before play has even started. If list-building and theory-crafting is the primary draw of this system, I question whether that actually makes 40K fun to play. Or how much tactical expertise succeeding at it really requires, in a player-versus-player sense. OPR is a simpler system, yes. But so is Chess. You can print the rules for Chess on a flashcard, and a new player can learn the mechanics in fifteen minutes. But no one would ever accuse Chess of being a baby game for babies. No one would accuse Chess grandmasters of not employing high tactical acumen or skill, both before and during play.

wonderful to have another video from you! and on the topic of GDF also! So far I only played the fantasy version and it was very interesting as a contrast.

What is a 'standee"?

Please give Wyloch’s Armory a shout out as they have games based on the Grimdark Future ruleset too :)

The whole army rules on one page is overwhelming, but their army builder app (OPR Army Forge) is so well designed it makes list building so easy! You can then turn that into a 1-page pdf to print so your entire army is on one quick reference page!

Thank you! Definitely checking them out, especially since there's Age of Fantasy now too

ALTERNATING ACTIVATIONS!!! and for the record, the whole "who goes 1st wins" rules is usually backwards for me. When I go first, no of my openness stuf is close enough to do very much damage to. But now that just have moved up, I'm close enough for the other player to SHRED my army. And I have usually noticed the same when you opponent goes first.

We use a mix of AoS' way of handling Command points, while using the abilities from 40k for each army. It works really really well for us anyway.

Personally I feel that the best thing for the world of Warhammer. Would be for a company to specifically fabricate their own variants (different sculpts) of all of the Warhammer 40k miniatures in design and name but very clearly for Warhammer 40k. But, clearly identify and support their own tournaments with more affordable units. GW has no competition because of their tournaments. But realistically you don't have to go to 'GW's' tournaments to enjoy the game. They can't stop you from using someone else's miniature in someone else's tournament even if they are using the GW WH40k rules or this GrimDark either. This is the best way to actually give GW a run for their money. Imagine if Cursed City was available with different sculpts but under a different name? Just saying, it is just a bit of text in a book otherwise with great artwork for the GW branded book. Make it available online just like GrimDark and they can't do anything about someone selling a box for 60 dollars with units, dice, and any other incidentals to play what should of been Cursed City. Sounds like a better world to me where GW can't keep raising prices indefinitely.

"Just like real like most of your problems can be solved by judicious use of murder" Yes, I often find myself trapped in a massive que thinking this situation could be so quickly resolved if I had more hand grenades.

The army list bit is constrained by the one-page format, they should either reduce the amount of stuff on it to make it more readable or have it be "One page rules, if we can manage it, but it might be 2-3 pages" Never sacrifice readability for a branding conceit.

Absolutely savage. The bit about Chaos Space Marines only having one wound made me roll around on the floor.

Great video, pretty damn funny also! One of your bigger gripes seems to be the lack of specificity for armies. Might I suggest Home-Club Rules additions. This would give way to as much or little, deep discussion wanted. Also, you strike me as someone with a bountiful imagination. Create a Lore by yourself or with other players! Tons of interactivity there as well. I have never played a miniature game, in 4 decades, without Home-Club rules. There's always something that I find to tweek to create more historical realism, or chaos in Fantasy/Sci-Fi that's simple and fits! Have at it!

Discourse: it's not a death match Me: it is for me!

YES AT LAST AN OPR FEATURE! THANKS DEBBIE DINER DISCOURSE!

Well, there you go then. Certainly sounds interesting, I will have to check it out and see what its like. I acknowledge you said their patreon offers more options, but (not having checked it out at all yet) is there a small faction skirmish play option? I fully accept I might be asking a lot from one page of rules to rival something like Necromunda though 😅 *looks at alllllll the books on shelf*. Looking forward to your next 'non-GW' system review 😄

One kool aspect is if you do become a patreon subscriber you get access to their point calculator which allows you to create new units/armies that are more or less balanced as its what the creators use to decide point costs

I hope you are starting to feel better? I have not tried OPR yet, but I have looked at them. More and more I am thinking I will have to give them a shot once I start gaming again. Thanks for this review!

Loving this video, my thoughts exactly! thanks Discourse! definitely want to play more GDF soon! cheers and be well soon! 🙃

Might I also suggest Space Weirdos, Stargrave or I hear that Uncle Atom/Vince are making a new sci-fi based skirmish game too.

Wargames should be about tactical Rock Paper Scissors. You need to smash your opponents scissors, whilst protecting your rock from enemy paper with scissors of your own. 40k has so many attributes for each weapon and unit, it's not apparent if it's a rock or a scissor. (Can you even have one scissor? They always seem to arrive in pairs.) In 19th century battle, infantry can form square against cavalry, but an infantry square is more vulnerable to artillery. But if an infantry unit deploys in line, then it's safer from artillery but in danger if cavalry can flank it. 40k just doesn't model this kind of thing well, you win by knowing how rules interact rather than by recreating a plausible conflict from the fluff.

Glad to see you back and on the mend! IMO, If you're a mini company make the rules for free; if you're a rules company, let people use any mini they want provided it fits the right height and base requirements. Full stop these should be the bare minimum expectations for any miniature (war, skirmish, or rp) game. Ironically, GW kind of does this with AoS. Warscrolls are free, Points are free, core rules are free. Which means that they can fit neatly into the 'mini-company' category. Battletomes can be considered 'optional rules' in this point of view. Unfortunately GW uses AoS as an entry drug into 40k a lot of the time ('first hit's free boys and girls') and they've gone full factory farming for 40k (primary reason I dropped the game in 2019). Wyrd's minis are kind of expensive (not gw bad but 35 bucks for a box of 3 dudes is a bit rough), but they have full rules free on their website and a full force is still only about 100 bucks for an entry version. OPR is mostly a miniature company, but they made their game mini agnostic in order to get more people to play. Then you have mini's agnostic games like reign in hell who just sell you rules. GW needs to learn sooner rather than later that you can be a miniature company or a rules company. and if they want to be a rules company, they need to ease the foot off the 'must be 100% GW miniature' pedal.

Are you going to cover some more gameplay for opr?

This has me very interested, and pondering bringing my armies out of storage.

I wouldn't mind if they said "One page per unit" Original Age of Sigmar struck a great balance, the only thing it really lacked was a decent balancing system, but the rules were easy to learn. Depth came in unit selection and special rules. So I would say that the goals of One page rules should be to make it simple enough, but still allow for a page per unit, or half a page? Or you can have the advanced version of the game? More Page Rules? I dunno?

I think OPR is a great little thing. One thing that does rub me the wrong way s bit is that most of their rules are remixes of older and more obscure games that were quite innovative in their day, but they never give any credit to these games. Grimdark Future and GF Firefight are almost literal word by word adaptations of the the 2010-something game FUBAR, which incidently also pioneered the one page rule format. I'm kinda sour on that. That being said, they do a great job for the hobby and have really helped mainstream many of those good rules which would have been forgotten into obscurity otherwise. So overall props to them.

Great to see you back! Would love to give it a try but finding folk to play 40K is difficult enough.