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Re: Weekend of LEGO Pirate Games!
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Thu, 22 Feb 2001 03:29:20 GMT
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
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> Based on Steve Bliss' comment, I've set FUT lugnet.fun.gaming
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> In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > In lugnet.pirates, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> > Some extent? I think that people coming and going is fine, but
> > of course it's always difficult when you have to acclimate new
> > players throughout the course of the game. :)
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> It would suck if people were ducking in and out all the time. But I agree that
> hte game is better than virtually any other at allowing this kind of play.
I'm hoping we will have a significant core of dedicated pirateheads so
the game will keep flowing. We will probably have to have some set times
where players who haven't played before can start (though asking them to
watch the game for a few turns would give them some acclimation time,
especially if a little extra time is spent explaining things).
Ultimately the rules are simple enough that anyone who has ever gamed
before will be able to watch a turn or two, and jump right in (and I'm
expecting that almost all of our come and go crowd will be gamers).
> > > It appears that we will have to charge a playing fee to pay for fun prizes
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> > Ack, I was hoping to make a full weekend of it! :)
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> As Frank mentioned, the whole weekend would be ~$30. It is possible that as
> long as only a few people wanted to do this, we could accept donations to the
> prize pool in lieu of cash payment. You might find that a satisfactory
> solution Mr. Walmart_Pirate_of_the_Year!
I think we've also thought about having some swapmeet time where Lindsay
could easily double the money on some of his loot... (Lindsay, one of
these days I need to take lessons from you, the other week one of our
K-Marts had a whole gazoot of Desert Skiffs at half price, probably
would have been a grand opportunity for your wheeling and dealing).
> > You know,
> > hang around far too long, cause trouble, shirk my lecture writing...
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> Isn't historical re-enactment called research?
:-)
> > Theoretically I might be able to put up one person, the big
> > problem being there's not much room in my apartment. I mean,
> > NO ROOM--it's a side room about 4' x 9' and there is no sleep-
> > furniture, though I have a sleeping bag. Oh, and the little
> > room isn't air-conditioned (always a catch, isn't there?).
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> I would possibly be able to put up guests too, I have a real house with futon
> couch beds, and lots of floor space. And AC. The catch for me is that I also
> have a family and they might not be as generous as I would. And you couldn't
> be smelly or offensive. :-)
I wouldn't mind crash space, if it's bedless, I'll just lose a little
room for LEGO and carry my lawn chair (I use a lawn chair as a cot when
camping, and when going to church youth group retreats - this latter
started after going to one church which had a particularly hard floor,
and the second evening I remembered that a lawn chair lived in my car).
> > > Frank will be supplying much of the fleet and all of the crew. Each player • is
> > > invited to bring a minifig captain for their ship.
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> > OK. I assume by 'much of the fleet' that Steve isn't bringing
> > any ships, so who is the 'rest of the fleet' coming from? I
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> Erm...well...actually, I was thinking that you might. :-) I have a small
> fleet (does four boats count as a fleet?) that I can muster, but really Frank
> will be the main source. I haven't heard from any of the other GardenSLUGers
> about this yet, so I'm not sure if they're in or have fleets of their own. If
> it were train wars, we'd be set.
I think the main thing we're going to potentially need more of than I
might have is cutters (though I do have enough material for another 20
or 30 or more cutters (after all, Lindsay sent me 4 cutters from the UK
a few months back - a couple Sail 'n Fly Marinas). If I don't get around
to building them before hand, I can always bring the various unbuilt
pirate ships I have, and someone can have fun Friday night.
> > Nothing at all is preventitive. Keep me posted on the evolution.
> > I'll have to decide whether to bring my two special 'children' for
> > viewing...all in good time, as we figure out the security issues
> > and so forth.
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> This is a concern that I have as yet addressed poorly. I would love to get
> some good LEGO display material out, but in the past, the place has been open
> all day and night and we'd have to take watches or something.
I think it would bear consideration to lock up in the dead of the night,
but if we can line up some graveyard guards, that would be an advantage.
I'd be real inclined to let anyone who does a night guard shift play for
free, or at least get an up front discount (we had talked about
refunding GMs and gophers and such if we cleared more than we spent -
though as someone who doesn't have a tight budget, as long as I get to
have fun, I don't want to be reimbursed, for me, it will be worth it to
spend $30 to get to run the pirate game with a big crowd).
Frank
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