From: Colin Phillips (cphill12@ford.com)
Date: Tue 04 Aug 1998 - 14:18:17 EEST
While a few of you may be enjoying the a table or not a table argument,
could you take it off line please because its boring the pants off the
rest of us. Its almost as bad as "I am the shadow of ..." If I thought
any of us had any chance of changing one rule in Hero wars, I say
continue but as Robin has stated repeatedly, he doesn't believe in
design by digest. Aren't we just wasting words?
If you are a playtester you have more chance of changinging things if
you give Robin some constructive feedback. If you really care this much
about the rules try and get included in the playtests that are happening
at the moment.
HW will live or die by its merits whether we like what it says in a
table or not. As for rolepaying (you know that thing we are supposed to
like!) I have been surprised to learn just how many of us are rules
driven. This is not a criticism! I am just surprised that people seem to
want rules to sort out character arguments thats say "if player A says
something witty in character give him a +1" rather than giving people
advantages on dice rolls when they role play something extremely well.
In the vain hope of stirring up something interesting, how many people
wing the rules and how many strictly adhere to the rules in the games we
buy.
I personally am in the wing it mode of things but I would be genuinely
interested in knowing if anybody has every played RQ etc with all the
rules and did the players enjoy this.
Hopefully this note hasn't upset anybody, but if it has, I'll apoligise
now to save all of those flames later.
Colin
Regards,
Colin Phillips
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