Lumifer comments on Power and difficulty - Less Wrong

21 Post author: undermind 22 October 2014 05:22AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (49)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lumifer 22 October 2014 08:56:48PM 12 points [-]

I wish there was a table top game where everything was completely imbalanced and players are encouraged to break the mechanics as hard as they can

Do you know about Nomic-type games?

Comment author: So8res 22 October 2014 09:02:51PM 2 points [-]

I did not, that sounds really neat. Thank you!

Comment author: VAuroch 23 October 2014 07:01:15AM 3 points [-]

I tried to get a LW-Nomic started a couple months back, but it didn't get off the ground. Nomics can be absolutely wonderful. Also probably of interest to you: Zendo) and it's older and less refined cousin Eleusis), both of which directly simulate the process of science.