RE: Re: Ho Much Rule fiddling Is Tolerable? (Ship Building)

From: Sam Elliot <samclau_at_zSxc25Am0Up_5NGYIIdVFvA5q03Lv0VatdMUfPRR4ef_NoXku-bYq_fc7gNCEtY36P_y>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:00:48 -0300

Simon, on Ian's boat-buidling example:
> > Let's say the entire Hero Band is working on building a ship.
> There's
> > two ways of doing this as an extended contest -
[snip]
> My first thought was "Why do this an an extended contest at all?" but
> then I got thinking.

My first thought when I saw the ship-building example was that it would be absolutely spot-on to play out as an extended contest. If people need a ship built in time to escape somewhere, need to convince someone they are great ship-builders, whatever, then it could be great fun.

Sam.