{"id":2641,"date":"2005-02-09T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/02\/09\/2641.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:48:06","slug":"from-little-stones-grow-mighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/02\/09\/from-little-stones-grow-mighty\/","title":{"rendered":"From little stones grow mighty mangoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Gentle Readers may remember, one of your number (specifically Dan, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/poi\/journal\/\">Position of Ignorance<\/a> was looking for assistance with some game-playing ideas. With such assistance, he has come up with an alpha version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/poi\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=2635\">Valley of the Drupes<\/a>, which of course involves Hans Cherryseed, Patricia Peachtree, Ebenezer Elderberry and Olive, um, Pitt cultivating orchards and stoning crows. You can help playtest; all you need is a few hundred acres of arable land, friends with odd names, a few starter seeds, and generations of patience. Alternately, you could play a model version with a deck of cards, some colored tokens, and two six sided dice. If you&#8217;re in a hurry.\n<p>Anyway, go and check it out. From an initial playtest, it&#8217;s got some interesting strategy balances between expensive risky ploys and methodical safe play. It wasn&#8217;t terribly long (although I tend to play quickly and incorrectly, so your mileage may differ); I didn&#8217;t clock it, but it was certainly less than an hour, including gathering the stuff, and musing over the rules. As I&#8217;ve only played right hand against left, I have no way of knowing if there&#8217;s a way to mask those strategies and surprise your opponent with tasty fruit just as the crop is ripening. I&#8217;m curious to see. And, in the opposite of the strategy in the game itself, playtesting is all the easier if other people do it first, so any of y&#8217;all who give it a whirl will be helping me out.\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Gentle Readers may remember, one of your number (specifically Dan, over at Position of Ignorance was looking for assistance with some game-playing ideas. With such assistance, he has come up with an alpha version of Valley of the Drupes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17305,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/17305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}