[GZG] Living rulebooks

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----- Original Message ----
From: Oerjan Ariander <orjan.ariander1@comhem.se>
To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
Sent: Friday, 11 July, 2008 8:59:15 AM
Subject: [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>).

I think it would be great if GZG put together a rulebook containing the
rules out of the original rulebook, the bits from MT and the fleet books
into a PDF. You don't need to upgrade to FT 3 but just to have a set of
rules in one book would be great and significantly lower the entry
barrier to new players.
I would also like to see new SSDs for the new models, like in the fleet
books and then a quick paragrpah or 2 of background about the
introduction of this ship and any notable missions or examples.
There are now way more models than there are published ship SSDs so you
can't even have a FTverse canon campaign with the manufactured models.
There could then be a structured discussion about the rules people liked
and didn't like that could then be incorporated into a release / patch.
This might work alongside the separate playtesters list.