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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9589751" data-attributes="member: 86653">Nothing will protect you from a bad referee. The referee can ignore the 5000-pages of rules just as easily as the 5-pages of rules. There’s no guarantee of consistency with more rules, either. Having a gander at most games pre-2000-ish will show you that’s false. Heavier rules gives you more predefined buttons to press, that’s all. It gives the illusion of more toys to play with. But it’s just an illusion. If the referee is any good at all, you can try anything and have true tactical infinity regardless of the rules. Heavier games just take longer to resolve things, longer to read and learn, and longer to play. I’d rather play an ultra-light game with maybe a page of rules and a good referee who knows the genre/world well. Hell, I’d prefer Free Kriegsspiel Renaissance (FKR) but that kind of talk gets people flamed around here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9589751, member: 86653"] Nothing will protect you from a bad referee. The referee can ignore the 5000-pages of rules just as easily as the 5-pages of rules. There’s no guarantee of consistency with more rules, either. Having a gander at most games pre-2000-ish will show you that’s false. Heavier rules gives you more predefined buttons to press, that’s all. It gives the illusion of more toys to play with. But it’s just an illusion. If the referee is any good at all, you can try anything and have true tactical infinity regardless of the rules. Heavier games just take longer to resolve things, longer to read and learn, and longer to play. I’d rather play an ultra-light game with maybe a page of rules and a good referee who knows the genre/world well. Hell, I’d prefer Free Kriegsspiel Renaissance (FKR) but that kind of talk gets people flamed around here. [/QUOTE]

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