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[Royal Minister of Stuff]

I don't know much about Passion Play or Usagi Yojimbo.
 I keep meaning to pick up one or the other and then I
do some damn fool thing with my money like getting a
new apartment or helping my parent's fix up their
house for retirement.

Also, I HATE coins.  I don't like the idea of dice in
a LARP any more than I like the idea of a GM in a
LARP, but I really, really hate coin systems.  They
are universally cumbersome, difficult to play (ever
try flipping a whole bunch of coins at once -or just
one over and over- when you're an uncoordinated geek?
Oh wait, I forgot, gamers aren't sloppy misfits
anymore!), time consuming and smarmy.


--- Nick Wedig <mrteapot at disinfo.net> wrote:
> >> I think that a UA LARP would be great. I also
> think that it'd have to be
> >> done custom, rather than through a published,
> one-size-fits-all set of
> >LARP
> >> rules like MET or Passion Play.
> >
> >I'd probably use the Head Count system from
> Underground. No wait, that's the
> >superhero game. I meant UnderWorld.
> >
> >It's quite simple, quite elegant, and uses coins.
> So all the plutomancers
> >would be happy. =)
> 
> I tend to think coins have many of the same problems
> that dice have in a LARP setting. 
> 
> I myself would want to adapt the combat strategies
> system from Greg's Usagi Yojimbo rpg.  More or less,
> these could be used to eliminate dice rolling in
> combat (and extended to non-combat situations)
> though the game itself doesn't go this far, IIRC.  
> 
> Mr. Teapot
> thinking about game theory


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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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