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Ok gentlemen, ladies and anyone I may have missed.

 

This thread got my wheels turning and once the rust fell off I got to thinking.

What if we as Dakka-ites, put down all of our thoughts of the current GW rules and wrote out a "Codex" of clarifications that we could pass around the net to other tournament organizers?

I know we all don't agree on the interpretations but I know that we all can agree on what would be the LEAST advantageous of those brought up thus far.

I feel that we might be able to come up with a template that could catch on world wide, whos knows we might become famous for something OTHER than the RaW.

 

We tried to do something like this before but it became quickly apparent that it isn't really possible to do with a group of people. It just isn't feasible to get a group of peope to agree on exactly how a FAQ should be ruled. Do you stick purely with RAW even when most can agree that the designers likely intended otherwise, or do you make that assumption and rule the other way?

What exactly constitutes enough of a grey area in the rules to essentially make up your own rulings?

Etc, etc, etc.


The thing is, the game designers can always choose to either follow the rules they wrote for their FAQ answers, or they can say: yeah we messed up this part it should be played this other way. Any fan FAQs will always struggle with this second part because they can never truly know when or if the designers meant the game to be played the other way.


I've seriously considered taking the master FAQ list and making my own full FAQ along with my personal opinions on the answers. Obviously this would only be good for people who completely agree with my opinions, but it could also be useful for tournament organizers looking for a FAQ. They could look down my FAQ answers and any they disagree with they could simply change.

I think I might get on that. . .

I really like the idea of the big dakka gaming brains putting their money where there mouth is. Can Mauleed really make rules and tournie formats that would please more gamers? I think he could, and maybe if he did they'd grow in popularity. Same goes for all the rest of our big gaming brains (and mouths )! Maybe this'll help diswade people of the pesimistic air Dakka is looked upon with at times.

Yak, you write it and I'll do my best to sing it's praises.

Cop out :p Maybe you can take care of the tournie system comments?

We tried to do something like this before but it became quickly apparent that it isn't really possible to do with a group of people. It just isn't feasible to get a group of peope to agree on exactly how a FAQ should be ruled. Do you stick purely with RAW even when most can agree that the designers likely intended otherwise, or do you make that assumption and rule the other way

My idea isn't related to finding the RaW on every issue but coming to an agreement that is the least advantageous for any player(s).


I mean I already know that we can kill each other with RaW... but maybe if we agree on a neutral area that is fun to play.

Mauleed's psyker power, Lawyer's Chains, makes all enemy units within 12 inchs roll a D6. On a 1 or 2, nothing happens. On a 3, 4 or 5, the unit will spend its next turn argueing whether the a Marine carrying a Lascannon can also carry a bolter. On a roll of 6, the unit takes D6 wounds as they try kill themselves rather than argueing this point yet again!

Oh wait, I thought we were going to make a codex for a DakkaDakka army. :p

Edit: Maul, <3 <3 <3

I like the idea. Perhaps some of the rules interpretations can be decided with a poll. An argument is written for each interpretation, i.e. one interpretation with RAI (rules as intended) in mind, one with RAW, one with an alternative take on RAW. The poll decides how the rule is entered into Codex: Dakka Dakka.

On second thought, I think that's a horrible idea. I vote Yakface for benevolent dictator.

Why not come up with a list of everything that has a point of contention. Then we create a thread for each item, with a poll for which way it could go. Have everyone vote it out, discuss it, whatever. Majority wins. Simple enough.

Majority wins is an absolutely idiotic way to handle a logical debate.

 

Sounds like what something that would be said by someone who isn't in the majority.

The rules are illogical. Hence the contention. The majority of people finding a logical answer to the question, should determine the belief right?

Or are we gonna play Democratic Liberals and pander to the minority?

The thing is, one ruling can have a domino effect which has implications on other rules. Voting indepenently on each ruling would cause a random mish-mash. You've got to look at the game as a whole to decide what the answers need to be in order for the game to be balanced and enjoyable. Besides, how are we to guarantee that the majority truly knows what's best? If a bunch of kids just decided to vote for whatever ruling would benefit their army the most, it'd create an environment heavily weighted towards certain armies.

The rules are illogical? Did you seriously just say that?

Every single person who ever comes with any mathmatical proof or any engineering inovation is not "in the majority". That doesn't make them any less right.

Feel free to give idiots votes in politics. We have no need to listen to them here.

I would back the Yak on his compilations. Logical, precise, and 99.9% times has it right.

I wanted to give my high-sign for making clarifications toward intent and playability. Adjust really stupid things. Clarify things in the way that most suits the spirit of the game according to Yakface.

I'd recommend doing the rulebook first, then going codex by codex.

Posted By mauleed on 08/23/2006 12:06 PM

Majority wins is an absolutely idiotic way to handle a logical debate.

 

Its also the worst form of government ever... well except for all those other forms of governement that have been tried.

You guys might want to hold off on that a bit... There's a work in process with AdeptiCon to come up with a comprehensive FAQ, for AdeptiCon.

Doesn't Direwolf do something like that for fantasy? They have a committee that makes ruling and FAQs because GW can't be bothered to? (I am not sure about this since I am not a fantasy player).

And majority rules are not the way to go. Everyone votes to upgrade their own army. So, for an example since marine armies are in the vast majority, most rulings that benefit marines would be upheld, and the ones that limit them would be overturned.

I can't believe no one has said this yet, so I'll be the one:

We shall dub it: the YAKFAQ!!!

Posted By Strangelooper on 09/07/2006 3:45 PM
I can't believe no one has said this yet, so I'll be the one:

We shall dub it: the YAKFAQ!!!

Too late. That's what the document is already called (great minds think alike?).

It's in progress. All these Polls in YMTC are part of the process.

 

 

Woot!

Posted By Blackmoor on 09/03/2006 3:37 PM

And majority rules are not the way to go. Everyone votes to upgrade their own army. So, for an example since marine armies are in the vast majority, most rulings that benefit marines would be upheld, and the ones that limit them would be overturned.

Based on my experience running a large League, Blackmoor is very much correct. If you are going to vote on rulings then you need to use a system where each Codex has a representative to argue for specific decisions to be made. When a vote is taken the entire Codex Counsel votes. In this way each Codex at least has a chance of being fairly represented.

That being said, it worked better in our League when we did not vote and the League FAQ was decided by a Benevolent Dictator.