SFR, Inc.

Majiken · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:06 am GMT Post subject: How about this?

Okay, having played several tournaments this weekend, a discussion was started about dragon slaying and the rewards gained. Sure, getting a bunch of promotions is kind of cool, but when all you have in the DUA is 1h commons, you're hosed.

Our thought is this (and I may have posted this long ago on the old listserve), but what about a very small alteration to the rule that allows a 1h recruitment (and only 1h!) if no promotions are possible? The Springs players have used this as a house rule for years to the oint where we almost forgot that it wasn't tournament legal.

Much discussion could come up with no reason why this would make the game unblanced in any way, but we want everyone else to chime in their thoughts.

So, what do you think?
_________________
The Maj

Most people are like Slinkies ...
Not really good for anything,
but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

piMaster · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:25 am GMT Post subject:

Sounds like a good suggestion to me. It's always kind of annoying when you slay a dragon and get nothing for it because there's nothing in your DUA but commons.

-Brad
_________________
"Everything Brad said is correct." - Chuck Pint

chuckpint · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:14 am GMT Post subject:

Perhaps when we update the rules for next year. Yes, it's annoying, but I don't see anything that's broken either.
_________________
You can never have too many dice.
First Place at the first ever Daemon Dice sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
My collection is 21,500 Dragon Dice, 20,000 Daemon Dice, and others (too many to count).

Majiken · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:39 am GMT Post subject: More mumblings from Ohio.

chuckpint · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:16 pm GMT Post subject:

Almost all of the tournament games are two-player. That's how the Swiss tournament format goes. The only one that's different is the final round of the World Championship, that uses the Alpha format. That's also why the rules recommend no more than four player games.
_________________
You can never have too many dice.
First Place at the first ever Daemon Dice sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
My collection is 21,500 Dragon Dice, 20,000 Daemon Dice, and others (too many to count).

Deeghter · rare Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2553 Location: Lost

Majiken · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:56 pm GMT Post subject:

Deeghter · rare Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2553 Location: Lost

chuckpint · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:15 pm GMT Post subject:

Actually what Joe said, has helped me decide. We (we being the rules committee of SFR) were trying to encourage people to use different rarities of dice. Allowing common recruitment from killing a dragon would be a step backwards to the old all common armies. Since we want to discourage that, there is no way that we would ever want to add recruitment to killing a dragon.
_________________
You can never have too many dice.
First Place at the first ever Daemon Dice sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
My collection is 21,500 Dragon Dice, 20,000 Daemon Dice, and others (too many to count).