[Icehouse] Monochrone Stashes - LAST CHANCE TO BUY

[Andrew Plotkin]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ryan McGuire and Kerry Breitenbach wrote:

> If the greater Icehouse community is moving to the Treehouse paradigm, then 
> piecenikking efforts should be channeled toward making XHouse sets, where X 
> is [Tree, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...]).  In that case buying Treehouse units is EXACTLY 
> what you want.

No, not exactly.

>  I could easily see Black Ice being played with red pieces 
> that are candy cane striped, yellow ones with smiley faces, etc.

Sometimes you want that. But more often you want to start with all clear 
pieces -- or all white pieces -- and apply the color scheme entirely from 
scratch. The fact that you're making treehouse stashes rather than 
monochrome stashes doesn't change that.

(This is not a criticism of LL. Piecenikkers are a tiny part of the 
market.)

--Z

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