Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread Alex Smith via agora-discussion
On Sunday, 7 June 2020, 22:38:30 GMT+1, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > Oh those are really pretty simple too, chess-level simple or simpler (with > > some edge cases that come up as you go). > > My experience learning Diplomacy was that the although rules are short > and seem

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> Oh those are really pretty simple too, chess-level simple or simpler (with > some edge cases that come up as you go). My experience learning Diplomacy was that the although rules are short and seem simple, I found out about new (to me) edge cases constantly. I love the game but I think the rule

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/7/2020 12:36 PM, ATMunn via agora-discussion wrote: > > Remind me what an FRC is? > Fantasy Rules Committee, which is a specialty nomic (specialty in that it is limited to one core type of game play), that has been running longer than Agora (currently as a google group). Their rules are

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread ATMunn via agora-discussion
On 6/7/2020 2:03 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: On 6/7/2020 10:49 AM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: I like FRCs, and I have really enjoyed that in the past, but I also think that we should try to be experimental with tournaments given the limited frequency with which

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread ATMunn via agora-discussion
On 6/6/2020 10:54 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: I believe it's time to

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/7/2020 11:15 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 2:10 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On 6/7/2020 11:07 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: >>> On 6/7/20 2:03 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: Full credit: the version I played was written and GM'd by Arkady English

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 2:10 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 6/7/2020 11:07 AM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 6/7/20 2:03 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > >> Full credit: the version I played was written and GM'd by Arkady English > >> (e was active

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/7/2020 11:07 AM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > On 6/7/20 2:03 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: >> Full credit: the version I played was written and GM'd by Arkady English >> (e was active in a couple nomics circa 2012, haven't heard from em in a >> while) I thought I

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 6/7/20 2:03 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > Full credit: the version I played was written and GM'd by Arkady English > (e was active in a couple nomics circa 2012, haven't heard from em in a > while) I thought I had a copy of the old initial rules but can't find it, > but pretty

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/7/2020 10:49 AM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: >> I like FRCs, and I have really enjoyed that in the past, but I also >> think that we should try to be experimental with tournaments given the >> limited frequency with which they occur. Diplonomic seems interesting, >> and rules

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> I like FRCs, and I have really enjoyed that in the past, but I also > think that we should try to be experimental with tournaments given the > limited frequency with which they occur. Diplonomic seems interesting, > and rules already exist for it, which we could modify to suit our > needs. > >

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-07 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:54 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via > agora-discussion wrote: > > > > > > > > On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < > > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: >

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-06 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 12:54 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via > agora-discussion wrote: > > > > > > > > On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < > >

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-06 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 1:04 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 6/6/2020 7:54 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > >>> On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley wrote: > >>> > >>> I

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-06 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/6/2020 7:54 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: >>> On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley wrote: >>> >>> I believe it's time to discuss this year's Birthday Tournament. We can >> either do the FRC tournament as we have done in

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-06 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > > > > On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > I believe it's time to discuss this year's Birthday Tournament. We can > either do

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-06 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 6/6/20 9:59 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > Thanks for the offer, but I am happy to handle it as usual. I’ve been > knocking around a few ideas, but I don’t have any particularly good ones yet, > so I’m very open to ideas. The only thought that I’ve had that

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-06 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
> On Jun 6, 2020, at 21:51, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion > wrote: > > I believe it's time to discuss this year's Birthday Tournament. We can > either do the FRC tournament as we have done in years past, or something > completely different. I made a proto-Tournament for an

Re: DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-06 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 11:51 AM Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > I believe it's time to discuss this year's Birthday Tournament. We can > either do the FRC tournament as we have done in years past, or something > completely different. I made a

DIS: [Attn: Herald] Birthday Tournament Discussion

2020-06-06 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
I believe it's time to discuss this year's Birthday Tournament. We can either do the FRC tournament as we have done in years past, or something completely different. I made a proto-Tournament for an Arcadia-style game about a year ago. Don't know if the Agoran Community would be interested in