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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8475266" data-attributes="member: 71699">I find that disappointing for a few reasons.<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The text of Parlay in isolation doesn't guide to imposing such badness. Is there a general rule that covers &lt;6?</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">It is a game designer's job to write robust rules, not to impute flaws in the folk they might hope will buy their product. Nor should a game designer dismiss a straight-up bug as a &quot;white room&quot; problem. Once you get to justifying your bugs, you're losing objectivity.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Some guiding ideas are 1) listen to your audience, 2) ensure your game works as a game, as well as a roleplaying game, 3) don't dismiss faults found, especially early in production when it is cheapest for you to remedy them.</li>
</ol>What they are doing with Parlay is interesting (it's not novel, but it is not business as usual either). If there isn't a general rule, all they likely need to do is spell out in Parlay itself what can happen on a &lt;6.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8475266, member: 71699"] I find that disappointing for a few reasons. [LIST=1] [*]The text of Parlay in isolation doesn't guide to imposing such badness. Is there a general rule that covers <6? [*]It is a game designer's job to write robust rules, not to impute flaws in the folk they might hope will buy their product. Nor should a game designer dismiss a straight-up bug as a "white room" problem. Once you get to justifying your bugs, you're losing objectivity. [*]Some guiding ideas are 1) listen to your audience, 2) ensure your game works as a [I]game[/I], as well as a roleplaying game, 3) don't dismiss faults found, especially early in production when it is cheapest for you to remedy them. [/LIST] What they are doing with Parlay is interesting (it's not novel, but it is not business as usual either). If there isn't a general rule, all they likely need to do is spell out in Parlay itself what can happen on a <6. [/QUOTE]

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