Building Worlds Together – Introducing the Lore Committee
14th Jun 2024
Dan Mapleston
At Mantic, we’ve always done things a little differently! Over the last (almost) 15 years, we’ve been privileged to have incredibly positive and enthusiastic communities spring up around our games and miniatures – always willing to help and welcome new players into the world of our hobby.
Here at HQ, we're busy creating amazing worlds for you to play in - coordinating a team of super-talented sculptors, artists and writers that lay out an epic stage, just waiting for the next chapter in the story to unfold...
And the magic ingredient is YOU, and YOUR GAMES! Every time you bring your Kings of War or Firefight (or Deadzone, or Armada...) army to the table - something incredible happens.
When you're playing great games with characterful rules and Mantic miniatures that match the latest art and lore, these exciting worlds come alive on your tabletop!
This is one of the most exciting things about the hobby - everyone having enormous fun playing within Pannithor and the Warpath Universe as properly-realised living, breathing tabletop worlds that look the part. Close your eyes for a moment and you can hear the crunch of Abyssal Dwarf boots, and smell the foul breath of that two-headed Goredrake as it closes with your front line...
Every game you play, every new player you introduce, every story you read, really ignites these universes that we all enjoy together! And 'together' is the important bit: we really do believe that collaborating with real players makes for better games for everyone to enjoy.
Today, we'd like to spotlight just some of the ways that some extra-special community members are helping to do exactly that - including the introduction of a brand-new Lore Committee! But more about that in a moment...
Pathfinder Demo Team
Pathfinders are our community demo team – passionate real players that run organized demo games at their local FLGS (or events) to share the fun with everyone else, and help to recruit some new opponents for you all!
Some of our current staff team originally started as Pathfinders...time to dig out an old photo....here's Matt (now Head of Studio, right) and Dave (now Sculpting and Product Co-ordinator, bottom left). Interested? You can find out more HERE.
Rules Committees
Our rules committee for each game system is made up of community members that are not only experts in playing, but also have the skills and objectivity to help keep them balanced and fun – and collaborate with our studio team to introduce fresh new content in a way that avoids ‘new release power creep™’.
The rules committees are very active within the community, typically playing both narrative games and competitive events that give them a thorough appreciation for the system as a whole. They're also often found jumping in to help with answering the trickiest rules questions – and noting the most common ones to update our rules FAQs. If you happen to meet a member of the rules committees online or at a big event, please do remember to give them a big 'thank you' for everything they do!
NEW: Lore Committee
We currently advance the worlds of Pannithor and the Warpath Universe onward in interesting and exciting new ways with every book release, plus through an ongoing series of novels. As the story marches onward and the world grows more and more detailed, it’s important to make sure that our lore is not just entertaining and immersive, but also consistent.
We’ve now gone one step further and created a Lore Committee for the world of Pannithor, comprised of authors of our existing novels and background material. They will meet and discuss the development of the background for our fantasy games and establish experts in various fields and factions.
Assuming this approach works well, then in the future we will look to do the same for the Warpath Universe. There are certainly exciting times ahead for our worlds and storytelling - watch this space!
Team Mantic
