That's the point I was going to make -- look at how many tired hacks of existing games the market [presumably] will bear (monopoly, Uno, 35000 variants of Mancala, etc.). Start with a good base like Fluxx, and I don't see the problem. For people who buy games on theme and "metacontent" -- e.g. more into what the pieces look like than the game itself -- the more themes, the better. And if you love the basic game, you're more likely to get a collector sending out the appropriate themed expansion to someone in their circle who's theme-centric [i.e. they'll learn Zombie Fluxx because they're a horror movie nut, but won't learn Fluxx because "what's that about again?"] Side note: I thought it was strange that someone in one of those "Fluxx attention" links concluded that "gamers hate Fluxx. Non-games love it". I don't find this to be true... but then we clearly have a different definition of gamer. To me, a gamer is anyone who loves games and at least thinks about creating their own. The other definition appears to be "someone who uses games to massage their ego and lord their skillz over others". This used to be me, but it didn't take too long to realize that your l33t gaming skillz mean nothing if noone will every play with you. Plus, if you're *that* good, the games get a little boring, unless it's all about ego and domination [which it isn't, for me at least]. In short, "whatever!". -Ankhst > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on lists.looneylabs.com > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0 > X-Original-To: rabbits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Delivered-To: rabbits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply -to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=YJ8vUO6ahUs7otiIrjnpBH2WKXDGt5yNrINjUul2P1c=; b=jZ3Wa8kj4M36tdL61XuRTlF0/iywXlOC8Ifr4EEqwbURAmpdJxWMA+FzpzoeiKgSernIW8ff1JYtzg +HNi5aukSvXMufBCfBZfg+5WTu6ucwq0F86suWXazND5M6nr5DSa1QxVwelb5T1l6b+MwxN5PWkA4qaL WrwzbjdgAyLmA= > DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:referenc es; b=dbPoIYe0GWi4Ual/rKtzgKpuwuw1OO7CW4iANeaCcqfo7XN0Fupjx5sjg/jjX1y5qMChQGZymasGwu Q/Mo8owP1ibT5SjuWZiT1TP4i9Vcvka/eeeI9aUCZ8QtCsyoI6tniK63B3arsxDxUQeesdBDYkWjD0OT pgOuSMv8K+qmg= > Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:58:52 -0600 > From: "Laurie J. Rich" <knitmeapony@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Rabbits Discussion List" <rabbits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [Rabbits] Fluxx Concepts/Expansion > X-Barracuda-Bayes: INNOCENT GLOBAL 0.0000 1.0000 -2.0210 > X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.1, rules version 3.1.40718 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.00 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message >