Can we please have Andy. Kristen or Josh.. basicly lay it down like it was
at the meetings at last years Dragon Con or this years Origins...
The game needs to be played as its listed to be played.. no additions, no
stacking, no messing with it.
The company leadership has asked for this over and over and over.. I don't
understand why so many people want to second guess this request. Yes the
rules are only one guys opinion.. Andy's! If you don't want to play the
game the way L.L. prescribes it.. take off your labcoat, your rabbit badge,
create your own circle and play it. But if your wearing your gear... Play
it the way the company requests.. Do not get into the face of the Moderator
who is playing the game the way the company wants it played and say " I'm a
rabbit too and I play this way".. and watch the village revolt against the
prescribed rules. I was so annoyed so often this last weekend that I spent
more time walking away from the game than running it. I love AYAW? Its
pretty obvious.. I've spent an awful lot of money to promote it. But I
didn't love the attitudes, that basicly undermined me and seemed bent on
forcing me to defend the company from another Rabbit.
Just play the game the way its written.
Thats it.. from the Werewolf.
Robert Bunn
Proud Member of:
Americans Coming Together
Democracy for America,
Georgia for Democracy
Moveon.org,
Change for America,
League of Conservation Voters
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From: Kyle Normandin <handofposyden@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Rabbits Discussion List <rabbits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rabbits Discussion List <rabbits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Rabbits] Are you a werewolf? Question
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:56:51 -0700 (PDT)
I agree with Andrew
Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Billy Brahma wrote:
> As Rep's for the company.. we are expected to play the game, moderate
> the game, and teach the game the way the company INTENDED it to be
> played, taught and moderated.
Werewolf is a special situation, because the company did not invent it.
_Are You A Werewolf_ is a Looney Labs *product* which teaches and
facilitates an older, public-domain game. Yes, it has a particular set of
rules and conventions; yes, those rules were chosen by the Looneys to be
optimal for a certain kind of play experience. And yes, LL is running a
tournament.
But you do have to recognize that tthe _AYAW_ rules are one guy's opinion.
Lots of Werewolf/Mafia players in the world have never heard of Andy
Looney or _Are You A Werewolf_. And even at Origins, the Werewolf
tournament is a strange sort of collaboration between players (who would
be playing anyway) and the LL people (who have decided to track results
and award medallions). Organization and winner-tracking benefits
everybody, but it's more of a concensus situation than the other LL
Origins tournaments.
> I actually was very unhappy with the Volunteers working with me at
> Origins. VERY VERY VERY unhappy.
I'm not trying to silence your complaint. If there was friction between
you and the players, or you and other rabbits, or you and the LL people,
that's a problem which may be solvable. But I don't think it's viable to
frame the problem as "there is a right way to play Werewolf and you people
are playing it wrong."
> I look at it this way.. if the moderator is having trouble staying awake
> during your villages decision making process.. theres something bad
wrong.
Is this necessarily true? Were the players having fun? It's not about the
moderator.
You note situations where the players were *not* having fun, or seemed not
to be, and that's a reasonable complaint. But you're not going to convince
the players *either* if you come at them with a "you're playing the game
wrong" attitude.
--Z
--
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
*
Just because you vote for the Republicans, doesn't mean they let you be
one.
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