On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 03:19:46PM +0200, Martin Jung wrote: > Anyway, I wanted to point out that you can find a link to a PDF of the > extended rules version on > http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/Treehouse/Rules.html Ah, thanks. I think the point of the sentence "You can only Swap the House during a Wild" could be made clearer. Ignoring the context (i.e. the rest of the rules), I can think of three ways to interpret it: - "If you roll a Wild, the only action you can do on the House is a Swap" - "If you roll a Wild and do a Swap, you can only do it on the House" - "The only way to do a Swap on the House is to roll a Wild" As it turns out, the third is true, since you can always perform a swap on your own pieces (and so rolling Swap would force you to). Since it's a note, I take it the sentence isn't meant to introduce new rules, only to clarify existing rules. I'd suggest phrasing it differently. Here are some of my suggestions: - "You can Swap the House only during a Wild" - "You can Swap the House during a Wild only" - "Only a Wild can Swap the House" - "The only way to Swap the House is w. a Wild" How do I... uhh... "submit a patch"? ;-) ... And note that some Swap moves are also Hop moves, so you could potentially Swap the House (in certain limited ways) if you rolled a Hop while all your pieces were lying down. Maybe Swap should say "You can't Swap the House when you roll a Swap."? (Am I being pedantic? Possibly. But I've seen a friend get upset about the ambiguity of the wording of a Magic: The Gathering card ("each player's life total becomes the highest life total among all players"), where I saw no ambiguity at all.) -- Jonas Kölker <jonaskoelker@xxxxxxx> <URL:http://jonaskoelker.ignorelist.com>
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