Re: (FT,SG) News Break

Roger Burton West wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 05:09:24PM -0500, Allan Goodall wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hey, don't knock yourself! Even if it's not your area of expertise,
asking
>>questions and requiring others to answer is the only way things get
verified.
>>It's sort of the gaming equivalent of a peer review process. *S*
> 
> 
> Specifically, questions asked by someone who _doesn't_ know the
details
> can be terribly useful. Steve Jackson gave an example (which I may
> misremember): if you're writing an American Civil War game and you
> playtest only with people who know the ACW pretty well, you'll never
> find the loophole in your rules which lets an uphill cavalry charge
> against a fortified position successfully overrun it - because they
> won't try it.

 From the Ogre Book.  "Playtest the dumb strategies" is the short
version.

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Ray Forsythe - erf2@wombatzone.com - www.wombatzone.com