From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Date: Sat 09 Apr 1994 - 06:31:13 EEST
G'day all,
Harold Smith reminisces:
>I remember playing soccer in schoolbreaks with 4 of my friends, regularly,
>using any object durable and soft enough to be kicked around...
I am a primary (elementary) teacher (as you may have gathered from my description of my class's Roman Triumph a week ago), so I see kids playing a lot. As Harold recalls and you all probably remember, kids will make games up out of whatever's at hand, and to fit the space they have. For example, if it's too wet to use the playing field, kids will just adapt their game of "football" to fit onto one of the basketball courts. I've seen kids play "cricket" with a stick because no one had a bat and on one memorable occasion, cricket without a ball! In all their games, the rules tend to be fluid, depending on situation, numbers and personalities. To tie this in to Glorantha, games there would be the same - one community's rules for "full contact golf" might differ very much from the next village.
Roleplaying possibilities: If two communities got together to for a game, there might be much wrangling beforehand as to which rules would be followed ("when you play on a Greydog field, you use Greydog rules"). Or maybe there wouldn't, which might lead to interesting disputes on the field ("sorry, but kicks below the belt are legal in our game of 'Hide the Sausage')...
Cheers
MOB [One of the weirdest games the kids at my school have ever devised is "Teacher Tiggy", where kids will come up to the teacher on playground duty and say they want to play, then run and hide. If the teacher spots them, they then *voluntarily* pick up 10 pieces of litter. You might suspect it was thought up by the principal as a cunning plot to keep the yard tidy, but no, he's scratching his head over this one too.]
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