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Old 03-18-2009, 02:54 PM   #1
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Hurt and Heal Take 2

Updated rules:

Here are the rules as of now:

From 20 to 7 - each player has 3 votes: 2 hurts and 1 heal. Double hurts are allowed.

From 6 to 4 - each player has 3 votes: 2 hurts and 1 heal. Double hurts ar not allowed: a player has to hurt 2 different characters and heal one, or he may use only 1 hurt and 1 heal.

When but 3 characters are left each player has either a hurt or a heal.

Wait for at least four posters to vote prior to you voting again.

These rules can change whenever deemed appropriate.










With the first hurt and heal winding down quite quickly I think it time to start a new thread.

The rules:

1. There shall be 3 votes per person.

2. You are not able to do more than 2 heals or 2 hurts per turn.

3. You must wait for 4 people to post their vote prior to you voting again.

4. We will not start with any characters but shall decide who is on by committee. In other words you nominate who you would like to see on there and they need to be seconded by somebody and then they are on the list.

5. We would be wise to not use characters found on the last hurt heal although it's not forbidden.

6. Maximum number of 20 characters.

7. Starting points per character are 10

Let's discuss how we feel about these rules. Agreeable. I think the voting rules of 3 with the option to double heal may be reviewed in the future when crunch time hits but this might work too.
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Old 03-18-2009, 02:59 PM   #2
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Just a thought. With 3 points to start would it be better
to start with 10 points per person, or 15 or 20?

And should the names be general Middle-earth or limited
(by race, Middle-earth Age, etc.)?

Ed. Or how about no double hurts (only two single hurts
to two different individuals per turn)?
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Old 03-18-2009, 03:06 PM   #3
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I think the double heal is a bit of a haunter, as it can turn to this "everybody has 1000 lives and only little by little they get hurt". However, the double hurt is quite dramatic, as seen from the first game's end. It will be also best to somehow reduce this horrible floodposting, although perhaps the four people in between will do. But I am still not settled. Not fully, at least.

The basic problem (it concerns both the double-hurt as well as the number of people needed between posts) is, I think, the number of people playing. That's the crucial moment. When you have barely two people playing (like it was in the beginning of the first thread) and twenty characters on top of that, double-hurt is almost necessary and it almost doesn't matter how often you post. When you have some five last characters and eight or so people around, the control is needed and I would even say that this double-hurt rule was not almost (note that I am saying "almost") needed.
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Old 03-18-2009, 05:11 PM   #4
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Interesting. "Nothing" happened in the first two or three weeks but then when I'm away for two days (only three eliminated when I last posted) the whole game has ended...

Something was not in balance there. Legate speaks sense here: the number of people playing is important when the rules are wrought. But how to account for it if one doesn't know how many people will take part and when?

That's a tough one.
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Old 03-18-2009, 07:13 PM   #5
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Or we could assign 'secret' roles that enable certain players to have five votes, or to negate another players' votes when Jupiter is in the thirteenth house ... oh wait, wrong game.

We could have an initial signup sheet and sign up new players between 'rounds' of characters, perhaps.
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Old 03-18-2009, 09:02 PM   #6
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I would suspect that the next round will draw roughly as many or more during the next round.

There has to be installed into the system a way to ensure that characters will eventually get voted off.

I have considered doing a theme game such as elf characters or second age etc...
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Old 03-19-2009, 12:00 AM   #7
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So, is this kind of like Paper Telephone, in being you sign up before the game?

I'm still confused about this, but if I finally get the rules, I think I'd like to play too.
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Old 03-19-2009, 12:43 AM   #8
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Here are my 2 cents:

I think the rules should change automatically when the list is reduced to 6 characters and to 3.

From 20 to 7 - each player has 3 votes: 2 hurts and 1 heal. Double hurts are allowed.

From 6 to 4 - each player has 3 votes: 2 hurts and 1 heal. Double hurts ar not allowed: a player has to hurt 2 different characters and heal one, or he may use only 1 hurt and 1 heal.

When but 3 characters are left - each player has 2 votes: 1 hurt and 1 heal. Or, as Tuor suggested (see his post below) either a hurt or a heal.

Four posts between turns seems quite reasonable. Maybe by the end even five or six posts between turns would be needed. I think the Gamemaster can assess the current situation and make the announcement about the change of the rules to be implemented at once.

The end of the last game was stressful and rushed. Refresh page - count - post - count - correct - refresh page - correct again... Grrr... There was absolutely no place for associated banter, which is usually so fun.

Also, yes, I think it is much more interesting if we keep either to Silm or to LOTR. Gothmog I and Fingolfin seemed to me out of place in the last game regardless of the fact that both were great characters. It would have been much better, IMHO, to have Durin's Bane and a contemporary Elf (Gildor, Glorfindel or Galadriel) in the game - with the understanding that we consider mostly their deeds in the TA, not what we know of their FA history from Silm.
But in the FA game Sauron should be regarded as Gorthaur Melkor's Lieutenant, not as the Ringmaker and Mordor Lord.

I also much approve of the idea of thematic lists (all orcs, or all Valar, or all Maiar, or the Fellowship, or Elf-Lords of the FA). Maybe we can also have a game based on the LOTR Appendices, with Romendacil, Castamir, Earnur, Arvedui etc?

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Old 03-24-2009, 05:04 PM   #9
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A reminder

As we are coming up on only 6 left

From 20 to 7 - each player has 3 votes: 2 hurts and 1 heal. Double hurts are allowed.

From 6 to 4 - each player has 3 votes: 2 hurts and 1 heal. Double hurts ar not allowed: a player has to hurt 2 different characters and heal one, or he may use only 1 hurt and 1 heal.

When but 3 characters are left each player has either a hurt or a heal.

Wait for at least four posters to vote prior to you voting again.
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Old 03-24-2009, 06:15 PM   #10
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Double-hurt Mîm.
Heal Finrod

Melian (10)
Húrin (3)
Maedhros (10)
Mîm (6)
Ulmo (9)
Fingon (6)
Finrod (11)
Huan (6)

Eliminated:
Thingol by a phantom
Turgon by morm
Ungoliant by Legate of Something-or-Other
Ecthelion by Oddie-poo
Thuringwethil by Oddie-poo
Azaghâl by Darth Legate
Fëanor by Eminem
Lúthien by a phantom
Miriel by a phantom
Aredhel by Bubbles
Morwen by a phantom
Turin by a phantom
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Old 03-24-2009, 06:23 PM   #11
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Miscounted. No vote.
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Old 03-24-2009, 09:53 PM   #12
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Double hurt Hurin, heal Huan.

Melian (10)
Húrin (1)
Maedhros (10)
Mîm (6)
Ulmo (9)
Fingon (6)
Finrod (11)
Huan (7)

Eliminated:
Thingol by a phantom
Turgon by morm
Ungoliant by Legate of Something-or-Other
Ecthelion by Oddie-poo
Thuringwethil by Oddie-poo
Azaghâl by Darth Legate
Fëanor by Eminem
Lúthien by a phantom
Miriel by a phantom
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Morwen by a phantom
Turin by a phantom
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Old 03-24-2009, 09:56 PM   #13
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Kill Hurin, Hurt Mim, Heal Maedhros

Melian (10)
Húrin (0) *day shall not come again*
Maedhros (11)
Mîm (5)
Ulmo (9)
Fingon (6)
Finrod (11)
Huan (7)

Eliminated:
Thingol by Phantom
Turgon by The Blacksword
Ungoliant by Darth Legate
Ecthelion by Oddie
Thuringwethil by Oddie
Azaghâl by Darth Legate
Fëanor by Eminem
Lúthien by Phantom
Miriel by Phantom
Aredhel by Sir Mac
Morwen by Phantom
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Old 03-25-2009, 02:35 AM   #14
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Hurt Huan, Hurt Mim, heal Melian


Melian (11)
Maedhros (11)
Mîm (4)
Ulmo (9)
Fingon (6)
Finrod (11)
Huan (6)

Eliminated:
Thingol by Phantom
Turgon by The Blacksword
Ungoliant by Darth Legate
Ecthelion by Oddie
Thuringwethil by Oddie
Azaghâl by Darth Legate
Fëanor by Eminem
Lúthien by Phantom
Miriel by Phantom
Aredhel by Sir Mac
Morwen by Phantom
Turin by Phantom
Hurin by Phantom
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Old 03-26-2009, 08:02 AM   #15
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The final 3!!!

Okay reminder on the rules. We may want to revisit these rules if they don't seem to be working but here it is:

When but 3 characters are left each player has either a hurt or a heal.


And still wait for 4 others to post.
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Old 03-26-2009, 09:14 AM   #16
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I would suggest it ought to be a hurt and a heal - otherwise the points are just likely to skyrocket.
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Hurt Finrod

Melian (7)
Maedhros (8)
Finrod (6)

Eliminated:
Thingol by Phantom
Turgon by The Blacksword
Ungoliant by Darth Legate
Ecthelion by Oddie
Thuringwethil by Oddie
Azaghâl by Darth Legate
Fëanor by Eminem
Lúthien by Phantom
Miriel by Phantom
Aredhel by Sir Mac
Morwen by Phantom
Turin by Phantom
Hurin by Phantom
Mîm by ++Nilp
Huan by Skip & Phantom
Ulmo by Mac
Fingon by mormy

Let's see how it's going to work. If it doesn't work, we'll do it differently next time.
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Hurt Melian

Melian (6)
Maedhros (8)
Finrod (6)

Eliminated:
Thingol by Phantom
Turgon by The Blacksword
Ungoliant by Darth Legate
Ecthelion by Oddie
Thuringwethil by Oddie
Azaghâl by Darth Legate
Fëanor by Eminem
Lúthien by Phantom
Miriel by Phantom
Aredhel by Sir Mac
Morwen by Phantom
Turin by Phantom
Hurin by Phantom
Mîm by ++Nilp
Huan by Skip & Phantom
Ulmo by Mac
Fingon by mormy
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Heal Finrod

Melian (6)
Maedhros (8)
Finrod (7)

Eliminated:
Thingol by Phantom
Turgon by The Blacksword
Ungoliant by Darth Legate
Ecthelion by Oddie
Thuringwethil by Oddie
Azaghâl by Darth Legate
Fëanor by Eminem
Lúthien by Phantom
Miriel by Phantom
Aredhel by Sir Mac
Morwen by Phantom
Turin by Phantom
Hurin by Phantom
Mîm by ++Nilp
Huan by Skip & Phantom
Ulmo by Mac
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Hurt Maedhros

Melian (6)
Maedhros (7)
Finrod (7)

Eliminated:
Thingol by Phantom
Turgon by The Blacksword
Ungoliant by Darth Legate
Ecthelion by Oddie
Thuringwethil by Oddie
Azaghâl by Darth Legate
Fëanor by Eminem
Lúthien by Phantom
Miriel by Phantom
Aredhel by Sir Mac
Morwen by Phantom
Turin by Phantom
Hurin by Phantom
Mîm by ++Nilp
Huan by Skip & Phantom
Ulmo by Mac
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