>> MINIMUM BID EXTENDED CONTESTS
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>Nice idea.
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>> 1. The narrator declares a minimum bid for all actions.
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>> 2. Normally the minimum bid will be the starting AP total of the actor with
>> the lowest AP total.
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>I'd suggest thus number - 1. Slightly mean to force this character to
>bid enough to take himself out of the contest (in any case, someone will
>likely do that for him!). You might also want to consider increasing
>this number mid-contest, if it's a group contest with lots and lots
>of participants, and the number of APs varies widely. (Upping the ante,
>to make another one of my occassional series of HW/poker comparisons.)
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>Not sure I'd bother with any of the remaining rules/options though:
>the minimum bid, and the note about how to describe, surely captures
>the essence.
I almost added "Ignore everything apart from points 1. and 2. and wing the
rest" for the basic idea. (I was slightly embarassed that my proposed house
is so trivial, so I dressed it up a bit.
Thom