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Re: crunch and fluff

Kenneth Oswald — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:05:12 GMT

I was just sympathizing, Mark - I'm actually all for simplicity, my own system has very few rules at all. And Jeff Dee is, after all, the creator of TWERPS

Re: crunch and fluff

Mark A. Siefert — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:54:28 GMT

Whoa! Who's ranting? I merely expressed a preference for simpler rules and my opinion that the rules of previous Tekumel-related games (with the exception of

Re: crunch and fluff

Kenneth Oswald — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:15:17 GMT

HAHAHAHA, oh my - I'm going to apologize to Jeff for all this crunch bashing! Mechanics are a labor of true love for designers and its a blow when someone

Re: crunch and fluff

Alva Hardison — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:05:41 GMT

Yes, indeed! Whatever floats your boat is fine with me I just reserve the right not to play it. ... From: uni_games Subject: [tekumel] Re:

Re: crunch and fluff

uni_games — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:01:08 GMT

... Huh. I clearly have a higher opinion of game mechanics than you do, but I never saw the term "fluff" as pejorative. To me, "fluff" has always meant the

Re: crunch and fluff

Alva Hardison — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:55:31 GMT

The best thing I think T:EPT did was give the cultural overviews that were lacking in other rule systems. How the different classes relate to one another and

Re: crunch and fluff

Kenneth Oswald — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:13:50 GMT

Absolutely! On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Thomas Worthington < ... -- Continually hopeful there's an elegant line between egotism and cynicism... [Non-text

Re: crunch and fluff

Thomas Worthington — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:01:18 GMT

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:54:35 -0000, George Hammond ... Fluff is a pejorative term coined by certain types of power gamers to emphasise

Re: The emperor's birthday

Joe Kovar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:37:10 GMT

Happy Birthday, Professor Barker. And thanks for the great game! Regards, JK _________________________________________________________________________

The emperor's birthday

Peter Huston — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:59:56 GMT

Happy birthday! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: The emperor's birthday

uni_games — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:45:15 GMT

Happy birthday, Professor. You are awesome. -Jeff Dee UNIgames

Re: crunch and fluff

Kenneth Oswald — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:39:26 GMT

My players like point based as well - and I personally try to avoid crunch. Our system is very simple, most all situations resolved with a one die roll using

Re: The emperor's birthday

newt_e@... — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:13:53 GMT

I'll add my salutations, from across the pond. Happy Birthday, Professor. Newt

Re: The emperor's birthday

Karin Karejanrakoi — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:07:51 GMT

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Re: The emperor's birthday

Anthony Emmel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:58:17 GMT

Chello! Happy Birthday, Professor! And thank you! Anthony N. Emmel