Subject:
|
Re: Question about quality of Best Lock...
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.gaming
|
Date:
|
Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:22:01 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
7158 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.gaming, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > My comments are all gaming related so I XFUT lugnet.gaming
> > I wouldn't allow it in a game I was GMing, and I probably wouldn't play in a
> > game where the GM was using it. (we had someone show up at GenCon with one, we
> > didn't let it onto the playing area but that was for perhaps different reasons)
> > But that's just me. It nevertheless is something to keep in mind I think.
>
> Steve Jackson specifically mentions Best-Lock by name in his rules and his Okatu
> (listing of ships appropriate to the game), so I take that as tacit admission
> that he has no objection to them.
Or that he's being politically correct. Or trying to provide for people who
already have the stuff and might possibly start to game if given encouragement.
Or saying it's OK for others to use them if they want not necessarily that HE
uses them.
Besides, he's a gamer who happens to like LEGO. I'm a LEGO enthusiast who
happens to game. If he brings a Best-Lock ship to my game (and he's earned the
right to float a class 6, that's a mighty big jump from the class 1's we tend to
start people with) MAYBE I'll make an exception.
But I doubt it.
> I take it you don't allow the higher-quality parts but spud-ugly awful
> Crossbones Clipper? :-)
It's LEGO so it's OK. But so far we haven't had many on offer at the chandlery
in games I've been involved in, We tend to give out ships with worse flaws for
the humor value.
> It depends on how you want to equip it - most LEGO ships need more cannon, too.
Realistically, yes. For the game, I think one cannon per class is actually a
lot. A ship with 6 cannons (and 30 rigging and 60 hull boxes) is, I suspect,
going to absolutely destroy arbitrarily large numbers of class 1s... so much so
that it might not be much fun for players.
But that's as much an argument against letting someone sail the RBR they brought
in amongst the minnows as it is against letting this ship in...
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Question about quality of Best Lock...
|
| (...) What he's really saying is that his rules are not product specific. You could also play with Playmobil or Imaginext (not that he mentions Imaginext, but I've been looking at it - it could be a cool basis for the Pirate Game, though certainly (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
| | | Re: Question about quality of Best Lock...
|
| (...) That all may be true, but I don't think any of that contradicts what I said. The choice to be LEGO-centric is certainly up to the guy running the show, and I certainly indicated that I'd not want to bother with non-LEGO figs, but I just wish (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Question about quality of Best Lock...
|
| (...) LEGO minifigs, if anything, are MORE secure on a Best-Lock stud. I hooked four on to the ship via one leg only, turned it sideways, and shook. None came off the ship. In fact, the most likely problem is that you'll go to take the fig off, and (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.gaming)
|
20 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
