[Deptheads] Banned game "The Assassination Game" - revisiting an idea

[Tim]

Yeah my favorite was a dry ice 'bomb'...


On 5/14/2013 11:43 AM, Victor B wrote:
> I remember "Killer" by steve Jackson . We were playing that in college 
> dorm in 1981. They had to ban it because it was too disrupotive. Put a 
> starlight mint into someone soda and a note underneath that says "you 
> have been poisoned". Or disconnect their car battery and when they 
> look under the hood it has a sign that says "boom, you are dead". I am 
> sure Eric A.. Paiva, and many others here have played.
> At conventions TAG, killer, etc. became distractions. Very fun games 
> but you always had that handful of players that got wild.
> If you have a rule-set in mind that allows for safe zones 
> (participating a game, participating in a larp, talking to payouts, 
> flea market, sitting at a seminar, painting at paint-n-take, in 
> dealers room shopping, etc)  as well as no running, no use of props 
> that look like weapons (use cards for guns etc) then I see no problems 
> with trying it again at Gateway.
> V
>
> *From:* Nekojin <nekojin at gmail.com>
> *To:* Strategicon Dept Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:07 AM
> *Subject:* [Deptheads] Banned game "The Assassination Game" - 
> revisiting an idea
>
> I know that "The Assassination Game" (or TAG, for short) has been 
> banned from the convention for excessive disruption (kids running 
> around with toy guns is not a good mental image, after all). Would it 
> be worth opening a discussion about this with rules set up to minimize 
> disruption among the convention? I've got a rule-set in mind that 
> should help keep the disruption to a minimum, and absolutely prevent 
> kids running through the halls (any more than they already do, anyway).
>
> Just for clarification, I'm not talking about doing this at Gamex - 
> there's too little lead time on it. I'm considering doing it at Gateway.
>
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> "I think not," replied Descartes, and promptly vanished.
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