Reply To: The Intersection of Simulation and Beer & Pretzels

[Sparker]

Bandit wrote:

One of my objections to many rule sets (regardless of their category) is that they address many common situations through special-case rules. My issue with this is that then playing the game is practically a quiz on the rules where the player who knows the various special-case rules better and can apply them to his advantage is likely to prevail.

You got that right! Although I’m not a huge of FOW, a lot of my very Battlefront loyal mates are shaking their heads over the large increase of ‘special case’ rules that only the tournament geek can bother to remember.

The problem though with having rules that only cover 99% of probabilities is that the one time you find the rules force you to do something silly or ahistorical – that’s the one time your clubs hyper-critical grognard is watching! Thereafter any mention of that ruleset will be met by snorts and eye-rolls from that direction!

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