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Re: Question about quality of Best Lock...
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Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:37:12 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.gaming, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> > 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.
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> 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.
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 to make it clear that I don't see the actual rules supporting that.
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> 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.
You are playing the role-playing game, rather than the fleet battle game. And
what can I say? Like Steve, I am a gamer who likes LEGO and have no great
respect for LEGO purism for purism's sake within the context of a game beyond
the aesthetics of it.
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> But I doubt it.
Hey, if you provide all the ships, you can be as choosey as you want! :-)
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> > I take it you don't allow the higher-quality parts but spud-ugly awful
> > Crossbones Clipper? :-)
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> 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.
No doubt. :-)
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> > It depends on how you want to equip it - most LEGO ships need more cannon, too.
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> 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.
Comments about fleet action vs. role-playing noted above.
-->Bruce<--
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