Searching for rules meta-rule

[jrv]

Whenever a rule you are looking for could be in one of several places, it's in the other.

JR

 

[JR Brackin]

Having a rough day JR

 

[jrv]

Having a rough day JR

Not really. I was thinking about a rules question I was asked and how it came to be asked. But since it is a universal meta-rule, everyone has experienced it at least once. Even people who don't play ASL.

JR

 

[jrv]

Corollary: if you need to look at it again, it will have moved back to the first place you looked.

JR

 

[macrobo]

Hi JR

Just keep being that good bloke you are by helping us that seem to forget rules (and yes Aaron I am highlighting!)
It great brains like yours are with us

Cheers

Rob

 

[Brian W]

I'd say that the first rule is, "Picture where it was in the v1 ASLRB, then imagine what page it got moved to in v2".

 

[footsteps]

A.2

I don't know how it applies in this situation, but this seems to be the answer to just about anything.

 

[CTKnudsen]

In my limited experience, the rule you are looking for is always either a) about two lines down from where you stopped reading, or b) actually in the middle of the rules section that you just carefully read through.

The rules, I think, have a life of their own, and sometimes do not want to be read. I have heard that the original rules were actually copied from a tome written in Germany in the late middle ages- the ill-thought Cultum Serpentis Oculos, which was immediately banned by the Jesuits. But it is rumoured that this is but a reflection of a far darker work, Est Duodecies Duodecim, which according to some forms the basis for the code in the VASL random number generator. I know that there may be much darker reasons than we may ever want to know of behind the non-release of the eASLRB...

 

[WuWei]

Whenever a rule you are looking for could be in one of several places, it's in the other.

JR

That's why ASL is a two player game. If you run into that situation, one player looks in one place, the other player looks in the other. There is a chance that the rule is in a third place, but it doesn't happen very often.

 

[Paul M. Weir]

That's why ASL is a two player game. If you run into that situation, one player looks in one place, the other player looks in the other. There is a chance that the rule is in a third place, but it doesn't happen very often.

The fourth thing is that the rule was in SL but greatly modified in ASL or not in ASL at all.

 

[Robin Reeve]

1) That rule you are looking for belonged to the SL system
2) Common sense doesn't exist in the index and won't help you answer a rules question
3) If you don't agree with jrv and Klas, don't even post your answer: you are undoubtedly wrong.

 

[boylermaker]

3) If you don't agree with jrv and Klas, don't even post your answer: you are undoubtedly wrong.

I dunno: I like to hear their long-form answers. Unchallenged, they can get a bit Zen Koan for my taste.

 

[Nineteen Kilo]

The fourth thing is that the rule was in SL but greatly modified in ASL or not in ASL at all.

I can't tell you how many times someone in my gaming circle (including myself) has said, "Is that left over Squad Leader knowledge?"

In golf if you pick up a bad swing habit it becomes muscle memory and is damn near impossible to get rid of. Knowing the Squad Leader Rules has much the same affect on the ASL brain - impossible to exorcise.

 

[Aaron Cleavin]

Another one is to remember: if it was on the right hand side of the 2 page layout in the RB it is on the left hand side in the pocket RB, drives me mad!

 

[JR Brackin]

If you cannot find the rule you must be using a reality argument!

 

[witchbottles]

That's why ASL is a two player game. If you run into that situation, one player looks in one place, the other player looks in the other. There is a chance that the rule is in a third place, but it doesn't happen very often.

Damn! That's why my SASL opponent is always kicking my butt!!1He knows the rules WAAYYY better than I do!

 

[witchbottles]

I can't tell you how many times someone in my gaming circle (including myself) has said, "Is that left over Squad Leader knowledge?"

In golf if you pick up a bad swing habit it becomes muscle memory and is damn near impossible to get rid of. Knowing the Squad Leader Rules has much the same affect on the ASL brain - impossible to exorcise.

Aha - I finally figured out why all my 8 irons keep getting lost in the water hazards...

 

[dur]

If you can't find the rule you're looking for, it's probably in A2 (not A.2).