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| Author: | Verrine [ 2007-04-30 23:23:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Players in Shifts? |
I will be running a game on Sat May 5. Optimistically, there will be 7 players who are committed to the entire game. Since it is a convention though, I'm hoping that passersby will be enticed by the pretty gameboard & want to play for a few hours. These are mostly Eurogamers so they don't understand the idea of playing one game that takes all day. I'll probably use the old rules of having a midgame joiner duplicate someone's advances & any quitter leaving the pieces on the board like a barbarian invasion. Does anyone have any ideas about working in partial game players? I don't believe that so many of you have actually played in 18 player games. Do you pay them? |
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| Author: | rporrini [ 2007-05-01 11:57:53 ] |
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Years ago, in a Convention here in Italy, I played three Civilization games in a row for a total of 21 hours. Nobody paid me, since two of these games were for a tournament and the third was to avoid sleeping in the night  and being with friends playing.
This is my point of view about gaming. We are not forced to play 2 games taking 2 hours each in an afternoon. We are free to play a game that takes all 4 hours before dinner. Same is for a 2 days long game. |
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| Author: | Verrine [ 2007-05-01 22:35:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Long Game vs Short Games |
Unfortunately all the potential time doesn't matter players have been turned off by the local lightweights  . So I'm left with people who don't want to schedule anything & think a "long" game is 3 hours. And rules are complex if they are more than 2 pages & don't have pictures. 
It's great that the new games are more accessible to mainstream people, but I wish some of them would try the good stuff. It's not like you'd only play short games or long games, but when you've dedicated the weekend to a convention, isn't that a great opportunity to do something you can't do at a regular session? 
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| Author: | mcbeth [ 2007-05-02 13:11:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Do like the newbie game |
You could probably punch through to the 1000 mark on AdvCiv in less than three hours if you had help. That would be enough to give people a taste of what was to come... |
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