Who is L Scott Johnson

Does anyoneknow who this guy is , i mean if he is a play-tester or WoTC employee ??? He know quite a lot about this game .

On 29 Dec 1996 01:58:02 GMT, ho...@intergate.bc.ca (Michal Kranc) wrote: > > Does anyoneknow who this guy is , i mean if he is a play-tester or WoTC >employee ??? He know quite a lot about this game . > Neither. L. Scott is a self-appointed rulesmonger who keeps track of rulings and rules consistency for the benefit of the newsgroup. He is quite often the only person who will respond to requests for rules clarifications by players on the internet with any degree of accuracy. Alec Chang

> Does anyoneknow who this guy is , i mean if he is a play-tester or WoTC > employee ??? He know quite a lot about this game . With this guys recent history in this NG, please keep the shrapnel to a minimum. please? hehehehehe Sorrow -- I don't want to be alone | I hurt, therefore I am anymore |-------------------------------- I don't want to be anyone | "What are you looking at...? anymore | you never seen anyone try to I don't need a reason to kill myself | commit suicide before?" - Anon ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Michal Kranc wrote: > > Does anyoneknow who this guy is , i mean if he is a play-tester or WoTC > employee ??? He know quite a lot about this game . He's just a regular guy (though, not like you and me!). He does know quite a lot about the game. He is the supreme authority (though he has no authority!). If WotC ever drops the game I am confident that the world would be in agreement to give LSJ the final word for rulings. Since I (and some friends) run most of the tournaments in Los Angeles, we can make LSJ's rulings as authoritative as any ever given from WotC! I have been thinking about a little back-up plan for how the game may continue when/if WotC ever drops the game. But I'll address that fully in another post, another time. Robert -- ...................................................................... :The opinions expressed here are strictly my own delusional ramblings: :and do not reflect the opinions of The Walt Disney Company. : : : :Robert Goudie robert...@studio.disney.com: :....................................................................: :cigars * v:tes * car rallies * scotch * sega rally champion * spoon : :....................................................................:

Alec Chang wrote: > > On 29 Dec 1996 01:58:02 GMT, ho...@intergate.bc.ca (Michal Kranc) > wrote: > > > > > Does anyoneknow who this guy is , i mean if he is a play-tester or WoTC > >employee ??? He know quite a lot about this game . > > > Neither. L. Scott is a self-appointed rulesmonger who keeps track of > rulings and rules consistency for the benefit of the newsgroup. He is > quite often the only person who will respond to requests for rules > clarifications by players on the internet with any degree of accuracy. > > Alec Chang Not only that but he is the ONLY person on the net, where if I hear him say how a card works, I can automatically assume that he is right. That includes any of the so-called WOTC reps.

Alec Chang (te...@lava.net) wrote: : On 29 Dec 1996 01:58:02 GMT, ho...@intergate.bc.ca (Michal Kranc) : wrote: : > Does anyoneknow who this guy is , i mean if he is a play-tester or WoTC : >employee ??? He know quite a lot about this game . : : Neither. L. Scott is a self-appointed rulesmonger who keeps track of : rulings and rules consistency for the benefit of the newsgroup. One important note, especially of late. If you ask for what is probably the "official" ruling, he will tell you EXACTLY what it is, as best he can, even if it is ENTIRELY stupid, as in the most recent batch of rulings. If you ask his opinion, he'll give you great answers regarding his views of game mechanics... He don't make the rules, he just reports 'em... :) -spongy

[ quoted text not captured ] Thanks for all of the ego-boosting, guys. For what it's worth, here's my own answer to the subject line: L. Scott is a gamer from the old school who thought MtG was the biggest scam in the world for separating people and their money. Until some !$*@ at a convention gave him a pack. :-) He got into the game around the time that The Dark came out. He got out of the game after Fallen Empires. But, in that time, he also picked up Jyhad when it first came out. He and his brother got into a big fight over the timing of some action modifier/reaction card (either Conditioning after a block declined, or Deflection after same), and stopped playing for over a month. (this third-person stuff is pretty obnoxious, eh?) An unspoken reconciliation later (I think I was on the wrong side of that particular argument), and we started playing again. When Tom Wylie has his first sabbatical away from the newsgroup, there were six of us on the group who took to discussing game theory (Directability of (D) bleeds, use of Master-Out-of-Turn, etc.) - to no resolution, as usual (anyone following the CL debate should be able to relate to this). I began to keep track of the various arguments and rulings for personal reference at that time. I later began collecting the various alternatives ((D)-bleed as defined in the rulebook as opposed to the Rules Team's over-stretched grasp) in a house-rules list, open for contribution. An idea derived from Curt Adams' suggestion that the big In Tom's second vacation from the group, I took to using my resources to answer questions in his absence. And started publishing the summary of errata on a periodic basis. It was during this period that I gave myself the "Rulemonger" title/handle. I found Rourke McNamara's "Not-So-Quick-Reference" (version 0.2) on the web, and took it and expanded it to the Rules Outline to help answer some of the more basic questions. So, basically, there you go. I'm a overly-critical control freak with too much time on his hands. -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | Neurotic: http://www.math.sc.edu/cgi-bin/sjohnson/home | Self-taut person. Graphics Specialist and V:tES Rulemonger. |

In article <5ah292$6...@redwood.cs.sc.edu>, sjoh...@math.scarolina.edu (L. Scott Johnson) writes: >So, basically, there you go. I'm a overly-critical control freak with >too much time on his hands. And thank goodness for that !!!

In article <5ah292$6...@redwood.cs.sc.edu>, L. Scott Johnson <sjoh...@math.scarolina.edu> wrote: > But, in that time, he also picked up Jyhad when it first came out. > He and his brother got into a big fight over the timing of some > action modifier/reaction card (either Conditioning after a block > declined, or Deflection after same), and stopped playing for over a > month. > (this third-person stuff is pretty obnoxious, eh?) > An unspoken reconciliation later (I think I was on the wrong side of > that particular argument), and we started playing again. I think all our reconciliations have been unspoken. Usually we reconcile for lack of argument partners. :-) And, yes, you were wrong then. But not since, I think. Hunter -- J. Hunter Johnson /\ Knightmare Chess Development Coordinator http://www.io.com/~jhunterj/ / \ GURPS Errata Coordinator (GEC: /geek/) jhun...@io.com / () \ Contact kr...@io.com for GURPS Q&A, or /______\ sjg...@io.com for other SJG missives Any background, but GURPS doesn't coddle to any impatience. -- S. John Ross