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Re: In praise of Cottage Industry

From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:57:53 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: In praise of Cottage Industry

On 13-Feb-01 at 17:39, Ground Zero Games (jon@gzg.com) wrote:

> But no, I hope we'll never reinvent rules for the sake of it (or for
> marketing purposes) - the only time we'll change things is if we
honestly
> feel we're improving the games by doing so, as we did with the FT
additions
> in FB1 and 2. Sometimes there are things that look great on paper, and
even
> survive playtesting, but then after they've been out in the wide
gaming
> world for a few months/years and been pulled and twisted by lots of
> players, then you realise that there was a better way of doing it -
that's
> where new editions SHOULD come in.

Yes, I am replying to an old post.  Just out of curiousity, in the SG
rules there is mention that it is similar to DS but with some
improvements.  Is there any plane to make these changes in DS or is
DS pretty well a static project.

Roger (I won't buy DS until I have my SG minis painted and used,
       I won't.  I really won't.   I really really won't.


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