From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V2 #238 Reply-To: acka-games@muppetlabs.com Sender: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Errors-To: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Precedence: bulk acka-games-digest Wednesday, January 7 1998 Volume 02 : Number 238 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 00:23:08 -0500 From: Malenkai Subject: Re: Acka: Ye Olde Rusty Lantern, one more time. > Seriously though, that was kind of fun. I want to know who wrote the card > "three-headed?" "infinite" was a pain too. I wrote three-headed. Mohammed wrote infinite. If anyone wants the complete list of cards, e-mail me. I threw some out that I thought wouldn't play well. Malenkai ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:08:16 -0600 (CST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Ye Olde Rusty Lantern, one more time. Vynd wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Malenkai wrote: > > I'll accept this (barely) :-), The game is over. /dev/joe has > > won, and wins the kitty. He has also found T101, but that doesn't > > happen until I make the announcement on the main list, as far as I > > remember the postal code. > > > > Vynd's interrupt then is accepted, but the game was over. I will > > propose a fix to this. > > > > Anyone else feel like harfing another round? I may run a game, *after* my vacation-and-move coming up next week. > Aagh, NO! No more! I've read enough books like this in my free time, now > I know how they're written. I guess you noticed that you can string together and halfway-plausible sequence of plot elements and make a reasonable story. > Seriously though, that was kind of fun. I want to know who wrote the card > "three-headed?" "infinite" was a pain too. I also want to know if anyone > recieved my two favorites out of the cards I wrote, "Ackanomic" and > "/dev/joe." Darn, I didn't get those but they would have been fun. /dev/joe would have been a truly diabolical character if he had gotten worked into the story. :-) > All in all, I thought that was a pretty good game, even if > the story got a little strange at times (I know, I was no help there). > There was drama at the begining, when I almost managed to use up my cards, > and struggle towards the end to wrest control away from Alfvaen and from > /dev/joe (struggle to figure out how to interrupt any of these plays with > cards like "statue" and "machine gun," that is). I think this is one of the problems with the game. If your cards have little relation to the story, it can be impossible to interrupt successfully, and if other players *do* have cards related to the story, you might never get a turn otherwise. Furthermore, if you have cards like "machine gun" and "airplane" and we have the fantasy setting (without the little dreamtime invention) then getting a turn may not be any good anyway. My little run there was difficult; I tried hard to make plays that were hard to interrupt (note my reuse of already-introduced concepts to reduce the likelihood that somebody has *another* applicable card to interrupt with). At the same time, I had to work to introduce whatever I had on the cards, and this left me no opportunity to close loose ends (except the new ones introduced... I'm still finding it hard to believe "seance" was a loose end but "riddle" wasn't. :-)) (happy now? :-)) Thus that hurried ending play, which I was sure would get interrupted. If I had no length limit or fear of interruption, I would have made about 10 normal plays to close that out. Along that run, most times I at least had an idea what my next play or two would be, but no further. Amazingly much of that was really made-up as I went along, which I guess is in the spirit of this game. Way in the beginning (when I first planned the cave-shovel-sidecar sequence) I had a long sequence planned, but kept getting interrupted. If I'm going to run a game, I need to get a deck of story elements together. Submissions will be considered. :-) /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 23:15:56 -0800 From: Joshua Herreshoff Subject: Re: acka: Mediocrity Gavin M. Doig wrote: > > From: Aaron V. Humphrey > > Date: 06 January 1998 20:09 > > > > > > > Anyone want to play mediocrity? I'd like to play, if possible. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:38:00 -0000 From: "Gavin M. Doig" Subject: Re: acka: Mediocrity OK, so far I have Fortunato, rufus, Slakko, The Gingham Wearer, Alfvaen, /dev/joe, and Goldenmean down as wanting to play. I'll start in a day or so, so if anyone else wants to play, let me know soon. Rex Mundi. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 20:21:17 -0000 From: "The Gingham Wearer" Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary So far I have the following wishing to play (other than myself): Vynd breadbox /dev/joe Slakko Balsamic Dragon Alfvaen I shall start this off in a day or two so anyone else wishing to play should reply quickly. The Gingham Wearer. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:30:20 -0500 (EST) From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Re: Acka: Ye Olde Rusty Lantern, one more time. On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Malenkai wrote: > > Seriously though, that was kind of fun. I want to know who wrote the card > > "three-headed?" "infinite" was a pain too. > > I wrote three-headed. Mohammed wrote infinite. If > anyone wants the complete list of cards, e-mail me. I > threw some out that I thought wouldn't play well. > > Malenkai > Heh heh, I think I know who got ackanomic and /dev/joe then. I was REALLY hoping someone would play that last one, too. - Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:02:19 -0500 From: Towsner Subject: Re: acka: Mediocrity >OK, so far I have Fortunato, rufus, Slakko, The Gingham Wearer, Alfvaen, >/dev/joe, and Goldenmean down as wanting to play. > >I'll start in a day or so, so if anyone else wants to play, let me know >soon. Sure, why not. - -- Omnium pro iure, ius pro omnio - -Henry Towsner, AKA else...if, The Fearless Alibi Posesser, Laefu, and Yilran "For there never was yey philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently" -William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, scene 1 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:02:42 -0500 From: Towsner Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary >I shall start this off in a day or two so anyone else wishing to play >should reply quickly. I would - -- Omnium pro iure, ius pro omnio - -Henry Towsner, AKA else...if, The Fearless Alibi Posesser, Laefu, and Yilran "For there never was yey philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently" -William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, scene 1 ------------------------------ End of acka-games-digest V2 #238 ********************************