A New Idea? Probably not...

[d3nial]

[Mike Holmes]

Well, as to the point about originality, not only is there a game based on a deck, but a western game at that. It's called Dust Devils, and you can read more about it on their Forum here:

http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=30&sid=

or at the website:

http://www.chimera.info/

That said, it's interesting how different these two games are despite the obvious similarities, and having been devloped at about the same time.

Mike

[Ron Edwards]

Hi there,

I'd like to emphasize that redundancy is a fine thing. As with the recent thread on the Frankenstein's Monster game (and its similarities to My Life with Master), my big Moderator comment is that "H'mm, that's happening in this game already" is not saying, "So forget it."

Continuing to work on and to discuss a variety of games that overlap in any any (setting, system, whatever) is a good thing. Mike rightly points out that the current system design doesn't share certain goals or modes of play with Dust Devils, and that's good enough for me to indicate that it deserves some air play of its own.

Besides, I love the idea of calling player-characters Varmints. That might even be a great title for the game.

Best,
Ron

[d3nial]

Thanks for the latitude, I can see that Dust Devils is quite similar in certain ways!

With regard to the probabilities can someone tell me how to calculate the odds more precisely for the value of a 1, 2 or 3 card hand? I worked on the principle that the average value of a single card drawn from a full deck is about 8, in the same way that the average roll on 1d6 is 3.5 (assuming picture cards have the following values (J=11, Q=12, K=13, A=15). What messes me up is the average value of the 2nd and 3rd card from a 51 and 50 card deck subsequently. It gets even worse when you have to account for 1 or more other players (with up to 5 cards in their hands)... are these odds calculable??? Thanks.


Daniel (not a stats major) Bullen