Re: (FT,SG) News Break

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Forsythe" <erf2@wombatzone.com>
> > 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.

As I was taught about debugging computer programs:

"A successful test is one that uncovers an error"
Not one that runs without a glitch.

Greetings
Karl Heinz