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Re: pirate chasing merchant
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lugnet.gaming
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:18:34 GMT
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In lugnet.fun.gaming, Frank Filz writes:
> Franklin W. Cain wrote:
> > Hmmm.... When I helped SJ run his game at CoastCon in Biloxi
> > ("http://www.lugnet.com/market/shopping/?n=1092";
> > "Beware Snake Island! BWAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaha!!!" ;-)
> > Steve had several copies of the rules printed,
> > and we gave each player their own copy.
> > Furthermore, each player rolled their own dice results
> > (except, of course, for any NPC ships that fired back,
> > but I'll cover that in a moment).
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> Was that game a battle game or campaign game? Of all the game
> descriptions I've seen, it's only clear which flavor one of the games
> was (battle game - the players clearly started with a large ship or
> several small ones). I like some of the aspects of the campaign game,
> but obviously it takes much more time. We basically used the ideas of
> the campaign game with a battle game type of scale (the rules mention a
> map or so for the campaign game, but it is not clear how that is used
> and how it relates to the setup on the floor).
The game in Biloxi was most definitely a "battle" game
(what Steve calls a "shoot-and-sail game" in his latest
update to the rules and GM charts).
One of these days, I'd like to run my own %^^$^$#@ con,
and invite Steve over to run the Pirate game
as a 'campaign' game over the *entire* weekend.
However, that would almost certainly require
a large number of asst./co-GMs. (Maybe I'd need to round up
a large number of the MIBs if I ever run this con....
("http://fcain.tripod.com/lego/mib.html")
Thanks,
Franklin
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| (...) ...I think your melded version was great. Maybe call it a 'mini campaign' like game. And maybe next year I wont have to leave my ship on autopilot so much :-) I think the slight modification to the scale of the guns brought it a bit more (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| (...) Was that game a battle game or campaign game? Of all the game descriptions I've seen, it's only clear which flavor one of the games was (battle game - the players clearly started with a large ship or several small ones). I like some of the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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