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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 7922210" data-attributes="member: 7016699"><p>This is perhaps where the evolution of team strategies (front office/team-building) and tactics (on-field decisions) come in. There is a passage quoted at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY, about Walter Johnson in the first quarter of the 20th century winning (I think) three consecutive games in New York, pitching complete games all three times. Modern starting pitchers start every fifth game, and are doing well if they go six of the nine innings of the game. The way the game is played has evolved, but the written rules are very much the same (there are some differences; the pitching mounds were lowered in 1969, for instance).</p><p></p><p>I would be inclined to call the differences between how tables play the same game (and I think to be fair it would need to be the same edition; there'd be less value in comparing my 5E games to the 1E games [USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] runs (if I understand correctly)) more like the differences in how different teams play the game of baseball (since that's the comparison we've been going with for a few pages, now).</p><p></p><p>Upthread, there was a question about whether one could re-create a game from the past. In baseball print reporting, there's a thing called a line score, which in concert with the rules allows you to just about do that. I'm not sure how that relates to RPGs, but there you are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prabe, post: 7922210, member: 7016699"] This is perhaps where the evolution of team strategies (front office/team-building) and tactics (on-field decisions) come in. There is a passage quoted at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY, about Walter Johnson in the first quarter of the 20th century winning (I think) three consecutive games in New York, pitching complete games all three times. Modern starting pitchers start every fifth game, and are doing well if they go six of the nine innings of the game. The way the game is played has evolved, but the written rules are very much the same (there are some differences; the pitching mounds were lowered in 1969, for instance). I would be inclined to call the differences between how tables play the same game (and I think to be fair it would need to be the same edition; there'd be less value in comparing my 5E games to the 1E games [USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] runs (if I understand correctly)) more like the differences in how different teams play the game of baseball (since that's the comparison we've been going with for a few pages, now). Upthread, there was a question about whether one could re-create a game from the past. In baseball print reporting, there's a thing called a line score, which in concert with the rules allows you to just about do that. I'm not sure how that relates to RPGs, but there you are. [/QUOTE]
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