ASL First FireThursday, April 22, 2004
Stuff in the Works
Two weeks since last updating this site. Too much real life involvement right now, not helped when one of my partners at work broke his hand resulting in a little more work to go around. Thus I haven't had much time to do anything new here, and am struggling to get any time in to continue my current SASL game of "Hoch Hoch!".
In the meantime I've received through the mail or purchased issues of two magazines, "Against the Odds" and "Armchair General", both relatively new magazines that in one form or another provide a game in each issue. Neither has anything to do with ASL, but are both well worth trying out, and I'll post an OOTW review here soon. I'm also working on an article on learning the OBA rules, but am struggling to make sure that the article actually takes less time to read than the rules themselves. Also, there are still a number of "Obscure and Frequently Forgotten" rules that can be examined. I hope these are proving to be useful.
In response to a couple of discussions on the ASL Forums and Consimworld, I've started a list of ASL Acronyms. These aren't intended to duplicate what's already in the ASLRB index, but rather to list those frequently used acronyms which don't show up in the Rulebook (e.g., MMP, KGP, etc.). The purpose of this of course is that there are (hopefully) a bunch of new players coming to ASL, many of whom will have no familiarity with the various manufacturers of ASL materials and their products (as has been apparent with some of the discussions that triggered the creation of this list). To them, a discussion of HOB's new module BtB will be meaningless. Hopefully, this will help somewhat. If you think of anything that should be added (including common Rulebook index acronyms that may not be available to someone with only the Starter Kit), please let me know at the e-mail address listed in the left-hand column of this page. Thanks.
In the meantime I've received through the mail or purchased issues of two magazines, "Against the Odds" and "Armchair General", both relatively new magazines that in one form or another provide a game in each issue. Neither has anything to do with ASL, but are both well worth trying out, and I'll post an OOTW review here soon. I'm also working on an article on learning the OBA rules, but am struggling to make sure that the article actually takes less time to read than the rules themselves. Also, there are still a number of "Obscure and Frequently Forgotten" rules that can be examined. I hope these are proving to be useful.
In response to a couple of discussions on the ASL Forums and Consimworld, I've started a list of ASL Acronyms. These aren't intended to duplicate what's already in the ASLRB index, but rather to list those frequently used acronyms which don't show up in the Rulebook (e.g., MMP, KGP, etc.). The purpose of this of course is that there are (hopefully) a bunch of new players coming to ASL, many of whom will have no familiarity with the various manufacturers of ASL materials and their products (as has been apparent with some of the discussions that triggered the creation of this list). To them, a discussion of HOB's new module BtB will be meaningless. Hopefully, this will help somewhat. If you think of anything that should be added (including common Rulebook index acronyms that may not be available to someone with only the Starter Kit), please let me know at the e-mail address listed in the left-hand column of this page. Thanks.
