[Icehouse] Trip Away rules questions

[Avri Klemer]

I agree with Dale on these points.  I threw a big IGDC party over the 
weekend, played all 8 games, and have questions about a couple.

I have to say, however, I am seriously impressed with the quality of 
entries.  I think 5 of the 8 will receive regularl play whenever I pull out 
a Treehouse set or 5, to add to Pikemen, Blam! and Binary Homeworlds.  Two 
games which I had been unsure about from the rules, turned out to be 
favorites!

Also, if anyone has questions about Penguin Soccer, I am happy to answer 
them either before or after September 17, on list or off.  Or, you could 
just head over to SuperDuperGames to play both Penguin Soccer and 
Subdivision (and possibly even Pylon, depending how quickly it gets coded!) 
in a setting that will not allow malformed moves!

Looking forward to another IGDC event on Thursday - I'm going to be at 
Neutral Ground in Manhattan from 6 pm if anyone in the NY Metro area wants 
another chance to playtest . . .

a

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Sheldon" <dales at digitalfreaks.org>

> So are you saying no one should answer these questions now, or that one 
> should not take the answers into consideration when judging the games? 
> Because I can agree with the second, but not the first.
>
> I was also confused while reading the rules to Trip Away, and if I were to 
> judge it as-is, I'd have to mark it dead last, as it seems to be entirely 
> unplayable (or at least, the method of play is entirely indecipherable) as 
> written.  Which is a shame, because I was hoping to have another single 
> treehouse-stash game to play.  That does, however, seem to be the only 
> fair thing to do.
>
> But I'd still like to know the answers to those questions sooner rather 
> than later.  (I promise not to let it influence my judging!)
>
> -- 
> Dale Sheldon
> dales at digitalfreaks.org