I bring up Blognomic a lot tbh but I bring Agora up a lot in Blognomic too. I strive to improve stuff for both via sharing stuff between them, a bit like how tea was brought from China to Britain and become super cool stuff in both places.
Also, it's cool to know that a guide has been made historically. I think that coalescing that tendency into a rule or something somehow would make it more perpetual. On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Cuddle Beam wrote: > > However, turning into a dynastic nomic would be too much of a drastic > change I feel, > > so I feel like a better solution would be to make "tradition" and "play > custom" EXPLICIT, if we want > > to make it matter. Or at least, much more easily accessible, like a > handbook, so that without needing > > to run into problems or having to suckle on teats, someone can have > enough independence to play the > > game on their own, just like how someone can grab a playstation > controller and instantly play versus > > needing to pester others or deal with a massive, not particularly > didactic archive which is only going > > to get larger and harder to use for any newcomer. > > Sorry if the previous post was too snarky. So, I think all of us totally > agree that it would > be great to have a guide. The rules annotations are out of date. We > don't have a simplified > intro. But beyond saying that, no one's sat down to produce one. Or > produce cross-linked > rules and cases, or some other nice interface. If someone did, it would > be welcomed. I think, > every few years, someone makes one, maintains it for a year, then stops. > It would be great if > someone did again. > > But also, remember that some board games are simple, some are long and > involved. And sometimes > players want a game long and involved. You don't cut all the rules out of > Star Fleet Battles to > make it more like Flux - if you want Flux, you go play Flux. Similarly, > if you want BlogNomic, > you know where to find it :). > > -G. > >
