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Subject: Re: d and d dispel magic - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 23-Oct-83 23:14:34 EDT
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uokvax!andree    Oct 20 12:58:00 1983

	Is there a game system anywhere which is so concise
	that everyone agrees on the rules?

Hah! Fat chance! Being an old fashioned war-gamer (you know, those things
people played before D&D appeared), I will ascertain that such is unlikely.
People didn't agree on the rules for those (fairly simple) games, so there
is little chance that they will agree on the rules for anything as complex
as an frp. For that matter, people can't agree about the rules on
something like monopoly!

The problem is that the game designer {\B CAN'T} foresee everything that
anybody will try to do with every object in the universe (a VERY large set
of situations), so they have to leave holes. This is also why anyone
interested in a reasonable computer-run frp needs to be in AI.

	<mike