[GZG] [OT] BB, was Re: GW and...

> Eric Foley wrote:

> ... Then some monstrosity called the Living Rulebook came out, which

The basic idea of making the updated rulebook available as a free.pdf download
is laudable (quite a few people are complaining that GZG
*hasn't*
done this with FT yet <g>), and so is putting the proposed rules changes up
for discussion and feedback on the Specialist Games BB web forum (kinda
reminiscent of how this mailing list operates... <g>).

But yeah, some of the rules changes have been pretty drastic - not so
much to the BB core rules, but many of the gainable skills have changed quite
a bit. For me who upgraded straight from 2nd edition to LRB5 it came as quite
a shock to find that I could no longer toss a 'fling further than a Short
Pass, for example... :-(

> Don't get me started on the game's use of cards, then not using cards,

> everyone hated them,

Well, getting rid of rules that the players hate isn't *that* bad a thing
to do IMO ;-)

> nerfing wizards so that the last thing that can reliably stop one-turn

> and so on...

I rather liked that particular change - turning wizards from "pay a
fixed sum now and blast one enemy player per match for the rest of eternity"
feature to something you can only afford to hire occasionally seems like a
*very* good change for me who, being a 'fling coach, could never hire wizards
anyway <VBG>