[GZG] [OT] BB, was Re: GW and...

Eric Foley wrote:

>... Then some monstrosity called the Living Rulebook came out, which 
>basically was advertised as "you can download this for free and it's a 
>living, breathing set of rules that we can rebalance easily if we need 
>to."  In practice, this has come out more like "we're going to change
this 
>whenever we feel like it, and one version of the rulebook may not even
be 
>all that recognizable in the next."

The basic idea of making the updated rulebook available as a free .pdf 
download is laudable (quite a few people are complaining that GZG
*hasn't* 
done this with FT yet <g>), and so is putting the proposed rules changes
up 
for discussion and feedback on the Specialist Games BB web forum (kinda 
reminiscent of how this mailing list operates... <g>).

But yeah, some of the rules changes have been pretty drastic - not so
much 
to the BB core rules, but many of the gainable skills have changed quite
a 
bit. For me who upgraded straight from 2nd edition to LRB5 it came as
quite 
a shock to find that I could no longer toss a 'fling further than a
Short 
Pass, for example... :-(

>Don't get me started on the game's use of cards, then not using cards,
now 
>using cards a handicap, then aging rules that went away quickly because

>everyone hated them,

Well, getting rid of rules that the players hate isn't *that* bad a
thing 
to do IMO ;-)

>nerfing wizards so that the last thing that can reliably stop one-turn 
>scoring wood elves without ripping the entire team to shreds goes away,

>and so on...

I rather liked that particular change - turning wizards from "pay a
fixed 
sum now and blast one enemy player per match for the rest of eternity" 
feature to something you can only afford to hire occasionally seems like
a 
*very* good change for me who, being a 'fling coach, could never hire 
wizards anyway <VBG>

/Oerjan
orjan.ariander1@comhem.se

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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