From: Glenn Overby II (guardcaptain_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 08:50:27 PDT
Christopher Bartlett writes: >begin >Well, I better get in while the gettin's good. I place my golden flute >(strength 0, magic 1, charisma 5) on the start space and nervously take the >dice in hand. I'm expecting a run of doubles, which might have grave >consequences, but franticly paging through the unwritten rules section on >the inside cover of the box, I find out that apostrophes within words are >included in the set of letters. With relief, I roll a 3+4 = 7. At this >point I could choose to add or subtract my magic score from the roll, but I >would rather draw a constraint card. It reads as follows: No future rule >may make it more difficult for any player other than its creator to reach >square 70 and thus win the game. >end. > >-- >Rule Date: 2001-10-02 12:18:34 GMT The Judgement: Validity: I want to call this one VALID, but I can't. 169:1 requires that the maker of each rule state what they roll, where they land, and what happens to them there. The writer states that he starts on Start, rolls a 7, and winds up drawing a constraint card, but he never says where he lands. We can infer that he gets to space 7, but I think that falls short of the explicit standard in 169:1. INVALID. Style: A unique stretch to avoid perpetual doubles (+1). A marvelously elegant idea for the use of Magic (+1.5). A Constraint that I'm glad I don't have to interpret (-0.5), in the unStylish "No future rule may bla-bla-bla" form (-0.25). For all that's packed in, it's short (+0.25). Another +2. Reflections: It looks like time is up on the first week, although something may be waiting for me as I post this. I'll get a summary out in the next couple of hours, or at least ship it to a couple of folks to post for me. (Still having email import problems.) Glenn E. Overby II "da judge" Clinton Twp, MI http://home.earthlink.net/~guardcaptain/ -- Rule Date: 2001-10-02 15:51:57 GMT
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