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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4998935" data-attributes="member: 80487">But, Korgoth, the lawn game is really a return to roots -- to the noble tradition of H.G. Wells (another designer who dismissed dice) in the yard playing his Floor Games and Little Wars, with a straw boater to keep the sun out of his eyes. Be proud of your straw boater (or beanie, as you may prefer)! Be proud enough to deny it up and down when the haters claim it's like a lawn game. That's tantamount to saying it's just a&nbsp; sporting amusement.Of course it's not. You'll still have the fundamental necessity of a &quot;role-playing&quot; game, which as everyone knows is paperwork.The accessories and resolution techniques are just aids to the experience. After all, what says &quot;deep, dark, dangerous dungeons and bloody mayhem&quot; like balls and wickets and a well-tended green?Well, brightly colored piles of plastic and glossy CGI naturally. But WotC and FFG have been there and done that, and you're trying to deliver the one thing most important in a pseudo-medieval game of vaguely Tolkien-ish fairy folk murdering each other in holes in the ground: innovation!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 4998935, member: 80487"] But, Korgoth, the lawn game is really a return to roots -- to the noble tradition of H.G. Wells (another designer who dismissed dice) in the yard playing his Floor Games and Little Wars, with a straw boater to keep the sun out of his eyes. Be proud of your straw boater (or beanie, as you may prefer)! Be proud enough to deny it up and down when the haters claim it's [I]like [/I]a lawn game. That's tantamount to saying it's [I]just[/I] a sporting amusement. Of course it's not. You'll still have the fundamental necessity of a "role-playing" game, which as everyone knows is [I]paperwork[/I]. The accessories and resolution techniques are just aids to the experience. After all, what says "deep, dark, dangerous dungeons and bloody mayhem" like balls and wickets and a well-tended green? Well, brightly colored piles of plastic and glossy CGI naturally. But WotC and FFG have been there and done that, and you're trying to deliver the one thing most important in a pseudo-medieval game of vaguely Tolkien-ish fairy folk murdering each other in holes in the ground: innovation! [/QUOTE]

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