====== Ogre Digest, March 11th (Last: March 4th) ======== ===== Unified theory of rulebooks From: "Grant A. Ladue" ============================== From: "Grant A. Ladue" Subject: Unified theory of rulebooks > From: stephan beal > > > From: "Grant A. Ladue" > > > Let me second Henry's thoughts. A "unified" consistent rulebook is > > > definitely called for at this point. Perhaps it should also have a > > > small section detailing the differences between the many different > > > versions of the rules. > > > > i personally would consider it a waste of space. The only people interested > > in that are long-time players, and they're all here ;). > > Interesting, yes, but i wouldn't pay for it. > > To clarify - specifically i meant the section detailing the differences. A > unified rulebook book, i'd certainly go for, i just wouldn't want to then see > pages takes up with "historical" stuff. That'd be a great article for The > Ogre Book II, though. I've been thinking about it, and actually I think a few paragraphs detailing changes from the various rulesets would be very valuable. It's the long time gamers that are most likely to overlook some rule change and keep playing the way they always have. It's these players who could use a quick summary of the changes so they can objectively decide which rules to use, and explicitly demonstrate that when they play with others (I know it's hopeless to expect every old grognard to just use the new rules 100%). A summary of the changes is necessary so that the new gamer and the established player have a common understanding that the rules have changed and how. I think it would be well worth it, and shouldn't take up much room at all. A more comprehensive article "detailing" the changes and the reasons behind them would be something for the Ogre Book II though. grant ===== [Things have been running a little slowly lately it seems. SJGames still has a last few copies of the Ogre Minis book for sale on their site and nobody else has commented on Ogre Lite. -HJC] List Moderator: Henry J. Cobb ogre@sjgames.com Archives for this mailing list may be found at http://www.io.com/~hcobb General online support for the OGRE game is at http://www.sjgames.com/ogre Ogre, G.E.V., Shockwave and other products mentioned here are trademarks or registered trademarks of Steve Jackson Games. All rights are reserved by SJ Games. This material is used here in accordance with the SJ Games online policy at http://www.sjgames.com/general/online_policy.html