Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

joncleaves · Moderator Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 16447

In a message dated 5/13/2003 00:43:28 Central Daylight Time,
eforbes100@... writes:

> >And if you are someone who has done or would do what I described
> >above and you are offended by me calling what you did the worst
> >sort
> >of gaming or calling you a scoundrel - good. It was entirely
> >intentional.
> >
> >Jon
> >>>>
>
> Come on Jon, lighten up.
>

Jeepers, Ed. That was months ago....lol Tell you what - I'll lighten up if
you let it go...

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Ed Forbes · Centurion Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1092

>
> And if you are someone who has done or would do what I described
> above and you are offended by me calling what you did the worst
> sort
> of gaming or calling you a scoundrel - good. It was entirely
> intentional.
>
> Jon
> >>>

Come on Jon, lighten up.

If the action by the player follows the written letter of the rules, and
it is not the effect you wanted, change the written rule, but lets not
spiral down into name calling.

Calling people names because they follow the letter of the rules borders
on childish, especially as you wrote the rules. In one breath you tell us
to read and follow the rules exactly, and in the next breath you call us
names because we do. There are lots of quirks in the rules and how is
one to know if it is a quirk that you intended or not?

It seems that one shows good generalship to exploit quirks in the rules
that you are in favor of and one is a "scoundrel", or "rules lawyer", to
exploit the rules in ways you did not think of when you wrote them.

Frankly, I do not find the term "rules lawyer" an epitaph, rather it is
someone who has taken the time to fully analyze the rules as written.

So lets continue playing the games in at least a semblance of social
grace and leave the name calling to others.

Ed Forbes

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joncleaves · Moderator Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 16447

In a message dated 5/13/2003 07:43:50 Central Daylight Time, cuan@...
writes:

> Ed, checking your old email? What prompted the whipping out of this quote?
>
> Sincerely,
> The scoundrel as referred,
> -PB
>

yes, Pat, my fellow scoundrel, I too wonder what prompted this ghost to rise
from its grave...lol

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Greg Regets · Imperator Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 2988

I prefer "Questionably Creative Tactician".

G

> Man! Drop out of the hobby a few years and come back 
> to find out all these Warrior practitioners acting 
> like a bunch of camp fire girls. What a relief to hear 
> there are still scoundrels! and knaves! amongst the 
> wargamers. I still fit the demographic! 
> 
>

Patrick Byrne · Centurion Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1433

Ed, checking your old email? What prompted the whipping out of this quote?

Sincerely,
The scoundrel as referred,
-PB

> From: Ed C Forbes <eforbes100@...>
> Reply-To: WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 22:36:29 -0700
> To: WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [WarriorRules] name calling
>
>
>>
>> And if you are someone who has done or would do what I described
>> above and you are offended by me calling what you did the worst
>> sort
>> of gaming or calling you a scoundrel - good. It was entirely
>> intentional.
>>
>> Jon
>>>>>
>
> Come on Jon, lighten up.
>
> If the action by the player follows the written letter of the rules, and
> it is not the effect you wanted, change the written rule, but lets not
> spiral down into name calling.
>
> Calling people names because they follow the letter of the rules borders
> on childish, especially as you wrote the rules. In one breath you tell us
> to read and follow the rules exactly, and in the next breath you call us
> names because we do. There are lots of quirks in the rules and how is
> one to know if it is a quirk that you intended or not?
>
> It seems that one shows good generalship to exploit quirks in the rules
> that you are in favor of and one is a "scoundrel", or "rules lawyer", to
> exploit the rules in ways you did not think of when you wrote them.
>
> Frankly, I do not find the term "rules lawyer" an epitaph, rather it is
> someone who has taken the time to fully analyze the rules as written.
>
> So lets continue playing the games in at least a semblance of social
> grace and leave the name calling to others.
>
>
> Ed Forbes
>
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Ed Forbes · Centurion Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1092

My appoligies to Jon,

Doug asked a question, with an attached answer by Jon, dated 5/12/2003,
on :Ewan marching in circle

I did not notice that Jon's answer at the bottom was pulled from the
archives from Nov - 02 and I made the hasty, and erroneous, assumption
that this was a current comment.

Ed

On Tue, 13 May 2003 07:41:47 -0500 Patrick <cuan@...> writes:
> Ed, checking your old email? What prompted the whipping out of this
> quote?
>
> Sincerely,
> The scoundrel as referred,
> -PB
>
>

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joncleaves · Moderator Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 16447

In a message dated 5/13/2003 9:15:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
eforbes100@... writes:

> I did not notice that Jon's answer at the bottom was pulled from the
> archives from Nov - 02 and I made the hasty, and erroneous,
> assumption
> that this was a current comment.
>
> Ed>>

Relax, Ed - we are all scoundrels here....lol

Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 0

In a message dated 5/13/2003 9:28:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, JonCleaves
writes:

> Relax, Ed - we are all scoundrels here....lol

Hey, some of us are just knaves...we're working our way up.

Todd

Recruit Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 167

Man! Drop out of the hobby a few years and come back
to find out all these Warrior practitioners acting
like a bunch of camp fire girls. What a relief to hear
there are still scoundrels! and knaves! amongst the
wargamers. I still fit the demographic!

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