Jul 17, 2019, 05:00 PM
(Jul 17, 2019, 02:23 AM)goigle Wrote: [ -> ]I don't know how strictly they enforce those rules, but it's a little disingenuous to say "12 rules" when their rules are wordier than LL's and they still have a lot of things mentioning @'ing for permissionI would say nowhere near as stricktly as LL, which is a good thing as they have no need to be that strict, their policy is that the rules are a guideline, not the word of god that can never be broken without punishment.
LL: 70 rules, 3,250 words
SS13: 12 rules, 3,375 words
Strong agree about manipulating rules to suit needs though.
I would counter the word count with this as well:
As force noted theres another 3k words in LLs policies when you include the clarifications, the SS13 rules posted have no extra clarifications, due to the rules themselves being straight forward,and clarified within it.
If LL had that level of clarification for its all 70+rules, do you think it would be over 10,000 words? I feel like it would be like reading half of Fahrenheit 451 as that book only has 46,118 words and IT is a literary classic.
Should a player basicly be forced to read an entire book for school, full of nothing but soulless rules and clarifications before playing on LL lest they risk severe punishment.
Ive also done a small count:
64 rules listed in the clarifications area
26 of them are not clarfified.
Most are not clarified to any degree beyond a single line
Ive picked the SS13 SSD rule for a word count due to it not being super long, and not super short at 223 words
If LLs 74 rules all had this level of clarification that would put the bare minimum reading 1/3 Fahrenheit with 16,502 words
If you chose SS13's most wordy policy/clarification, which is comparable to a few of LLs clarifications, which is their RP Standards policy at 652 words, this would put LL at:
48,248 words.
A full reading of Fahrenheit for your english class just to play on LL and not be punished for trying to have fun.