Re: Options

A few comments on this topic

First of, repeated calls for players only indicate
that the game appeals to rarefied populations.  Just
because a blind/xtalball game took 3 months to fill,
during which time I created, ran, and had end 8-10
games only indicates that while there are players who
want such a game, there are few enough that most will
be caught up in other games, and it will take time for
them to be freed of such, and thus to sign up.  Ought
games like this not be run?  Why, because they take up
space on the list of games?

One item to consider is that 50% of the rules options
have nothing to do with gameplay;
MUST_ORDER
NO_MINOR_WAIT
LIST_UNORDERED/WAITERS
etc etc

are all administrative in nature.

1900 has largely replaced Standard as a map (for good
reason).  Other than press options there are few rules
left.

Payola and its modifiers
Xtalball
Blind and its modifiers
Movement modifiers (mainly convoys, now WEAK_BOUNCE
etc)
Setup modifiers

I realize I speak as someone who masters only
"complicated games".  That I've setup and have run/are
running 16 games since October, three waiting now to
be filled, (a good portion needing more than 7
players) indicates that there is indeed demand for
such games.

To each their own.  No "novelty junkies" condemn
players who prefer the game as it was 40 years ago. 
Why do those more conservative players condemn players
and masters in the mood for something new?

-RS
--- Abbey Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree totally. I too have been seeing a lot of,
> what look to me like, 
> ridiculously complicated games. I think the average
> player would be 
> more willing to join simpler games, and you'll be
> hard pressed to find 
> seven people who want to join a game with thirty-six
> different extra 
> rules.
> 
> Randy
> 
> 


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