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swordtart · 06-26-2020, 01:59 AM

Agreed Juris.

One of the WH40K judges used to be really hard over about people playing by the rules (and with that game configuration management was a nightmare). Many games just dissolved into rules arguments which sucked all the fun out of it.

He had a conversation with Jervis Johnson about it and he was told that Jervis always used the rule "Jervis says YES". Basically if Jervis was playing, once a rule came into question he just asked his opponent how they thought it worked and would then just agree with that interpretation. Then they could move on with the game.

If Jervis won under those terms he had REALLY won. But generally he wasn't playing to win, he was playing to have fun. The new judge started to follow that philosophy and realised that he'd been missing the point.

So if in doubt... "Jervis says YES"

06-26-2020, 01:59 AM	#40
swordtart Join Date: Jun 2008	Re: The shurkin challenge. Agreed Juris. One of the WH40K judges used to be really hard over about people playing by the rules (and with that game configuration management was a nightmare). Many games just dissolved into rules arguments which sucked all the fun out of it. He had a conversation with Jervis Johnson about it and he was told that Jervis always used the rule "Jervis says YES". Basically if Jervis was playing, once a rule came into question he just asked his opponent how they thought it worked and would then just agree with that interpretation. Then they could move on with the game. If Jervis won under those terms he had REALLY won. But generally he wasn't playing to win, he was playing to have fun. The new judge started to follow that philosophy and realised that he'd been missing the point. So if in doubt... "Jervis says YES"