Re: Variant Game Bank

"David E. Cohen" <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:08:59 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.games.diplomacy.cat23.game-chat,gmane.games.diplomacy.cat23.gm
Message-ID <002d01c472a4$c06bcdb0$a982bb18@Dell>
Millis is basically correct.

One possible use I could see for it is to have a list of variants where the
designers were still active in Cat23, and willing to help with variant
related questions or to run games of their variants.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Millis Miller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [CAT23-Gchat] Variant Game Bank (was RE: [DipKnights] New Game
and Alpha Variant)


> The Variant Bank is supposed to be an independent source of variants,
> that were designed and played in any acceptable format (FtF, email,
> juge, web etc.)
>
> What exactly is the gap that you're thinkling that a Cat23 variant Bank
> would fulfill? There's a lively DVWorkshop group on Yahoo that seems to
> be where most of the variant designers are - does Cat23 need its own
> really?
>
> Millis
>
> On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 14:18, David E Watson wrote:
> > I just recently visited that "variants game bank" link and it got me
> > thinking.
> >
> > Cat23 has had so many wonderful Game Designers and variants played over
the
> > years that have come and gone.
> >
> > I think it would be a great idea to have our own "Variant Game Bank".
> > Either one on Rays server or at least a link to one.
> > I know there are links in the Cat23 Number Generator but sometimes that
just
> > isn't enough as most GMs remove pages from their websites for newer
'things'
> > to adjust for space requirements.
> >
> > This place (Cat23) is mostly variants of all sizes and shapes...not just
the
> > more popular of the genre. If at least for posterity's sake we should
have a
> > place that records these rules.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Dave Watson



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