spoon-discuss: RE: spoon-business: Multiple Gremlins

["Jonathan Van Matre" <JVanMatre@xxxxxxxx>]

It's not just you.

While the allusion to the Spielberg Gremlins franchise was good for a brief chuckle, I think the gameplay implications of multiplying Gremlins are very ill-advised.

Very, very bad.

--Scoff!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wonko [mailto:dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:04 PM
> To: Business Nomic
> Subject: spoon-business: Multiple Gremlins
> 
> 
> Say, Gremlin multiplicity could have some disastrous 
> repercussions... If we
> get 2 PIGs, for instance, they both simultaneously eat the 
> same proposal.
> Then what happens? Also, it could cause problems with the 
> Scoring Gremlin ­
> there are a number of rules that refer to it specifically, 
> and if there are
> 2 of it, then it's inherent shutoff (when the lowest player 
> ties someone
> else) might never occur. Also, imagine the chaos with 50 
> Scoring Gremlins ­
> Whenever a prop is recognized, the lowest scoring player gets 
> 50 points?!?
> And what about the Bandwidth Gremlin? You could have a player 
> end up with 50
> or 60 Proposal Tokens!
> 
> Is it just me, or is that bad?
> 
> --Wonko
> 
> "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
> - Napoleon Bonaparte
> 
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