Re: [piecepack] Re: on D4s

["Mike Schoessow" <mikeschoessow@...>]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Schoessow 
  To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [piecepack] Re: on D4s



    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Ed Thorn 
    To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com 
    Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:53 PM
    Subject: Re: [piecepack] Re: on D4s
    >>Well, for me, part of the allure of the piecepack is
    >>it's democratization of the process.  Anyone can
    >>pretty much get the specs for the components and make
    >>one of their own, and write rules, or use any existing
    >>rules.  D6 are cubes, easy to make, easy to buy in
    >>blank form.  All the other polyhedra lack this
    >>ubiquity.  Yes a grognard will be undeterred, but
    >>piecepack is, to my mind, horribly squandered if aimed
    >>at grognards.

    >I agree. So then, is there  any way to utilize a D6 for a color selection die? Keep in mind that the piecepack has >null and blank tiles and coins, so there is a precedent of a sort here, that could be used to justify a fifth, and >*perhaps* sixth, face. How about Red/Green/Blue/black/None/All, for the six faces ( the None face being blank and the >All face being indicated in some as yet undefined way). I don't particularly like this but it might be useful. If the >fourth color was something other than black (such as yellow), then a Red/Green/Blue/Yellow/blank/black die would work, >but with black being one of the suit colors, I'm not sure how this could be done. Perhaps the word ALL could be printed >on the sixth face, or maybe crossed lines with arrow heads on all four ends (implying all four colors), or maybe the >sixth face could include all four colors (draw an X on the sixth die face, (lines from corner to corner) and then color >each of the resulting triangles one of the four colors; red,green,blue,black). Any body else have ideas?


  Another possibility that just occured to me is, Red/Green/Blue/Black/blank/any. It would probably be best to indicate the "any" face symbolically (rather than printing "any" on the face) so that designers could utilize it for varied purposes.

  -Mike Schoessow