koadah wrote:
Testing over a lot of games.
For me, these are the two elephants in the room whenever these discussions come up. We all have bugbears and the concept of a BBRC is great until it sanctions a change you do don't like - witness previous BBRC concepts like binning undead, all it takes is player x mooting any kind of change to player y's favourite roster for all hell to break loose. And what amount of testing is enough to convince player y that the roster he likes so much wins more because it's objectively better (let alone is practical without effectively rolling out the full ruleset)?VoodooMike wrote:people are not resistant to change, they are resistant to everyone else's changes. Everyone and their brother has a vision of how the game should be, but they'd rather it not change at all than change the way you want it to. It is a lack of clear vision... a lack of anything approaching consensus... that leads to the appearance of conservatism. It is the one clear thread we've seen for years and it shows no signs of changing
I fall on the side of Mike here. For all I'd love to see a consensus based, rigorously tested living ruleset pioneering by some sort of committee of awesome, representative, all seeing savants; the reality is an unsatisfying halfway house that's only realistically going to cause as many problems as it solves. Practically speaking, given the realities of our situation, I think we're looking at unilateral action or else no action at all being our choices. In the absence of clear leadership from the IP owner, who you'd usually look to for this kind of leadership (however unpopular that unilateral action is - just look at the reaction to the latest rumoured warhammer changes!) there's no obvious party (other than perhaps cyanide) to take the role.
Note the NAF charter makes no mention of taking a leadership role in rules reviews. That could change, but given the above I think it's a little harsh - or at the very least premature - to suggest the NAF is fiddling while Rome burns.
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