Talk:Viking Secret Wildcard Poker
Discuss!
I added the Basic Gameplay of the game. Not to be an annoying person but please be aware of what they said in the podcast. I can't totally remember what that is though -.-. Think it's something along the lines of Calvinball. - Exachix.
TIM: So here are the rules for creating rules:
1. No rule can contradict another rule that has already been added and approved.
2. Rules may deal with cards and game pieces from different games (e.g. Magic: the Gathering, Clue, Uno, etc.), but must not make those other cards or game pieces a REQUIREMENT for playing the game. In other words, you can say that Elder Dragon Vaevictus Asmati (sp?) has a certain effect on the game, but you cannot say that "In this stage of the game, each player must draw one MtG card." This is because not all players will have access to all types of game pieces.
3. Don't make stupid rules.
(More to come as/when problems arise, I'm sure.)
I think we have to accept that it may not be possible for the actual VSWP game to incorporate all of the gibberish and nonsense from the Poker Before Dusk video. Where possible, try to make them line up, but if something in the video makes zero sense for the game and you can't reconcile them, don't worry about it. I'd rather have a game that can be played than one that perfectly matches the video.
Exachix; Indeed. However, it should be that we can include as much from the video as we can, making use of the 'You can *Blah* on a *Day*/*You are sitting to the right of the dealer*/*You are wearing sunglasses*'. I think that should be exploited.
On that subject, it should be playable, however complicated.
My hope is that if VSWP is ever played in the real wold it will be so complicated that it will have to be played by teams. Each player will have a support team of several people just to sort through all the rules and make suggestions. There also would have to be some sort of referee (probably also with a research team) to settle disputes. -Paul 18:51, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Once this is set up enough to be played, I will attempt to set up a game on the forum, or maybe the IRC would work better (In the IRC, you know everybody's there, but the forum would allow more time for much-needed research). Pit cards would be dealt through PM, everything else would be open. Other than Monty Python, I think I have all the cards in the video for me to deal with, (although not Vaevictus Asmati specifically. Sadly I had to part with most of my cards a few years ago, but I still have a couple decks lying around).--Master Gunner 19:12, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
TIM:
I like seeing that people have added a couple of more "special rules," and these are the ones I really think we should exploit for the ridiculousness of the game. However, some of the stuff about reversals and whatnot and "temporal paradoxes" is not something that allows the game to remain playable.
Bear in mind that I will be simplifying or modifying some of these things to allow the game to continue to be playable. I'm not trying to squash your creativity or anything, ok? No hard feelings. : )
Also, in reference to Paul's quote, Paul is a very silly man. In the interest of making the game playable, complexity will be supported, but not the level of complexity that literally requires multiple referees and "research teams." He was using hyperbole to be funny.
TIM
Things That Need to be Done:
- Create and write up the different hand gestures for all of the Bet Multipliers.
- Figure out how M:tG cards work. How is mana accumulated, and how does it affect the special effects of different types of M:tG cards when they are dealt into the Knuckle?
- Come up with more Clue combinations with different effects.
--Tim 21:32, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Exachix;
I'm just creating an image/diagram for the Sequence of the bet multipliers.
Also, maybe to keep the game playable with all sets we should forgo the mana... or create additional sections below the normal text (and above the history, which I may devise soon) for 'expansions', using the additional Card sets (Mtg, Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, etc etc).
