Talk:Assassin (game)

message: If you have specific rules about assassins, please do not include them in the article unless you can generalize them sufficiently!
It has been suggested that:
It sounds like several people here have a lot of specialized information to share, in more detail than an encyclopedia article can support. Have you considered starting up a project at Wikicities or other Wiki provider? That way, you could really get into the nuts and bolts that are specifically useful to Assassin players. FreplySpang (talk) 03:58, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Specific Rules

message: It seems that there is a lot of content for various Assassins guilds throughout the world. Maybe it would be a good idea to split the article about the game into the game article and an article detailing the history/ current status of assassins guilds all over the world.
Comments?
RyanTMulligan 14:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split Article? 

message: This article gives no indication as to the size of the group playing, how players are selected, etc.  Can someone insert and reference this information?  /Blaxthos 16:52, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: University campus games are often very large. I know the Cambridge University Assassins' Guild usually has about 100 people, and I believe the Oxford University one is similar. In large games like this one common variant rule is that you get emailed three targets' names, not just one (and correspondingly three people around the university have you as a target). --AlexChurchill (talk) 10:17, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: Does anyone know the origins of the game? Steve Jackson's Killer might be one, but the concept may have been around before. The name 'Assassins' Guild' comes from Terry Pratchett, but not the actual game mechanics.
As far as guilds/groups go, I think the MIT guild may be the oldest. Cambridge is quite old too - dating to as early as 1993. 86.21.227.237 (talk) 22:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I was playing at UMR/MST in 2002, I know it was run electronically the year before, and I've personally been hosting the server to run it electronically there since Winter/Spring 2006.  But one of my old floormates said his uncle had played Assassins at UMR back in the 70s or 80s as well.  How many other campuses run it electronically?  Perhaps a mention of UMR's (well, one hall particularly) is due in the article?  http://assassins.webhop.org/  Yes it is hosted in a basement but I am working on transferring it to a more stable hosting solution.  It was in my dorm room before the basement.  Chief1983 (talk) 22:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: According to a forum discussion at http://www.simpletxt.com/getupgames/blog/?cat=2 "The earliest record of the game’s existence can be found in the autobiography of Harpo Marx. The book, Harpo Speaks! was published in 1962, however the portion describing the game takes place during the 1920s." PoisonedPigeon (talk) 11:41, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins and oldest groups

message: You know, for the kids/high schoolers who want to play, but can't understand the vocabulary in the page. We could make a new Wikipedia translation, A Simpler Wikipedia, or something. Put all the games there, and help the children (and the children-at-heart), and those with a not so big vocabulary.
Just a suggestion.
Salosin2009 1 (talk) 08:19, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we make a simplified version? 

message: It appears several references in this article fail WP:V and WP:RS. I can't even tell what the first one is, but it seems to be some kind of hobby run site, which falls under self-published. The second one seems to be a generic book on game play theory and is cited without specifically citing a page, passage, etc. csifiles seems to be a fansite, imdb isn't a reliable source as it takes user submissions, rpgnet seems along the same lines and anyone can upload anything to a those planet sites, so a random mod of something is hardly a reliable or notable source. The external links also needs serious cleaning up. WP:NOT wikipedia is not a webdirectory also see WP:EL, this article is bordering on webhost material.--Crossmr (talk) 15:48, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: I've gone through and cleaned up a lot of content in the article that wasn't on par with our guidelines and policies. In fact some of the stuff I removed as OR was added in a huge edit awhile back with the edit summary "adding stuff from my personal experience". Also see WP:NOT and WP:EL regarding the links in the article. There is still a great deal of it unsourced though and I suspect most of the rules section can be removed as they seem to be personal additions as well.--Crossmr (talk) 16:17, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean-up 

message: Why is the movie Tag: The Assassination Game not part of this article? It sure seems like a no brainer to have a movie based (loosely) on this game at least mentioned. Even more amazing when you see that the article for the movie links directly to this page. 66.97.209.215 (talk) 03:37, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  MOVIE ??? 

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thread_title: Assessment comment

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