Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. Yeah we were looking into doing it a few times, but have not had enough on the days we are playing yet to do 7-8. I will just have to give it a shot once and see how it works out.
Thanks On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Blackfaer < [email protected]> wrote: > > We've been trying some out in the Play-by-forums games with more > players. Seeing how some different systems for more players work out; > so far it's a mixed bag. The biggest challenge is when you add more > players, you end up with that many fewer turns in the course of a > game; add that to the limited number of skill cards and it can be a > problem. No one as far as we know has done anything with writing up > mod rules for an 8 player game. > > GerryRailBaron was running a few test 10-player games with all 10 > characters and doubled skill decks; that seemed to work pretty well, > though you definitely need a moderator of some type at that point as > it can get very difficult to track. How that would work out in a F2F > game i dunno. With two sets of the game it would probably be pretty > doable to mix two skill decks and so on, but you'd need two copies. > Alternatively, when Pegasus comes out, it might add enough skill cards > (and possibly enough loyalty cards as well) to be able to expand to 7 > or 8 players. I know the designers made mention of that possibility, > but referenced players making their own 7 player rules mods, not that > FF has any plans to add 7+ player capabilities themselves. > > Obviously for 7 you've got 3 cylons and for 8 3 cylons and a > Sympathizer. Still only 1 Pres and 1 Admiral, but your biggest > challenge will simply be the length of time it will take to play, > which is why, I think, no one has put too much effort into working it > out and playtesting 8 player rules. > > On Aug 25, 4:26 pm, Aaron Cyr <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anyone ever found a mod to rules or resources that would allow for > > -8 players? > > > > I have looked over the net and found nothing so far. > > > > Thanks > > Aaron > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
