🚀 go-pugleaf

(Note: some of you may wonder why I've followed up to this posting twice.
In the interested of a more harmonious net, I've cancelled my last post
and posted a "kinder, gentler" follow-up...)

In article <17690@mindlink.bc.ca> Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca (Nick Janow) writes:
>bell@beethoven.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell) writes:
>>I say any *player* can use randomness with any point generation system,...

>Yes, and you can use a metal-cased modem to pound in a nail...but it doesn't
>work as well as a tool designed for that task.

Hmm, let's see...s$^%#$eems t*&do wo&^%rk ok...:-)

>Essentially you seem to be
>saying "design the system for type A gamers (who prefer balanced PA the way
>*Andrew Bell* likes it), and let everyone else make do with unsatisfactory
>kludges."

Please explain your reasons for finding rolling dice with a point balance
constraint to be an "unsatisfactory kludge."  Thank you.

   Andrew Bell
bell@cs.unc.edu