[Cynnabar] Cynnabar holiday gift exchange (with rules!)

Mon Dec 3 23:56:34 UTC 2012

We have the power to update the "rules". I would absolutely consider
removing the "first person gets last steal" component. 

First, if the first person gets a good gift, they may get theirs stolen and
then they have a chance to steal themselves. Second, while they first person
gets a chance to steal, the person they steal from is the one who gets
screwed here because they have no repercussion at that point. I'd rather
have no rule where first person gets to steal last. It's luck of the draw
and they do have a chance as someone can always steal from them and they
have chances to steal back throughout the game.

-Finn

From: barony-bounces at cynnabar.org [mailto:barony-bounces at cynnabar.org] On
Behalf Of Greg Less
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 8:13 AM
To: Anne Stevenson
Cc: Barony of Cynnabar
Subject: Re: [Cynnabar] Cynnabar holiday gift exchange (with rules!)

I believe in the past it has been that the last person gets to force a
single exchange with any one other person. 

I've not liked this arrangement, because it gives #1 ultimate power over the
game. 

-Gregoire.

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Anne Stevenson <elaine242 at gmail.com> wrote:

Huh, this is a really good question.  And I thought I had the answer. 

Let me think on it!

-G

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:39 PM, <rufquad at comcast.net> wrote:

While I have a brain (doesn't happen very often...) I have a question.  When
Finn first read the rules to me I had another question as well, but it has
escaped the steel trap that is my memory these days.  Maybe he'll remember
what it was.

Regarding Note 2, does this person simply trade with someone how does that
work?  Since at that point everyone has a gift, if s/he steals from someone
then s/he ends up with two gifts and the person stolen from has nothing.
How does that get worked out?

Margarete

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From: "Shoshana Jackson" <shoshigana at yahoo.com>
To: "Dennis Higgins" <mortisfan at comcast.net>, "Barony of Cynnabar"
<barony at cynnabar.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:42:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Cynnabar] Cynnabar holiday gift exchange (with rules!)

YES!  I love this game!

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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a
subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

-Sarah Vowell

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From: Dennis Higgins <mortisfan at comcast.net>
To: 'Barony of Cynnabar' <barony at cynnabar.org> 
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 11:02 PM
Subject: [Cynnabar] Cynnabar holiday gift exchange (with rules!)

Below is the setup for the traditional rules for the holiday gift exchange.
It will happen in place of our regularly scheduled business meeting on
Monday, Dec 17th (starting at 7:PM).

Garb is highly encouraged (though not required). You may still come and
watch/visit if you don't have a gift, but you won't be able to be part of
the exchange.

If you want to participate, bring a wrapped gift of around $10-ish. Note: No
crap stuff from Straum's basement/house/garage/personage.

This will in the "Pollyanna" format. 

-          All presents will be put in a pile in the middle.

-          People will draw numbers to see what order people go in. 

-          A person can either pick a new present from the pile and unwrap
it for everyone to see or they can "steal" a previously opened present from
another person. 

-          If a person's present is stolen, they may either steal from
another person or choose to open another gift.

-          Note: There is a 3 steal limit on any item. That means that it
may only be stolen 3 times total for the entire event. So the 3rd person to
steal an item cannot have it stolen from them again.

-          Note 2: The first person who goes does not get a chance to steal
at the beginning, so they will have one final chance at the very end to
steal.

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