History

The history of this set of rules is thought to be:

• Initial author unknown.
• Typed in by Paul Roberts (PER10).
• Later history unknown.
• Used by CUSFS for a while.
• Martin Hardcastle (MJH22) made some modifications.
• Julian Birch (JMB29), some modifications and clarifications.
• Richard Fairhurst (RJF1001), further modifications and clarifications.
• Ben Jameson (BFJ1000), yet more modifications.
• Jim Cameron (JC10007) and Elizabeth Pringle (EMPP1), more, mistyped, modifications.
• David Allsopp (DNA1000), surprisingly, made some modifications.
• Paul Menage (PBM1001) was Easter 1995 Umpire, and initiated 3 targets per player.
• Nigel Harris (NJH27) made modifications.
• Ben Harris (BJH21) changed even more things, notably the bomb blast radius formula to be based on a cube root.
• Chuan-Tze Teo (CTT20) modified still more rules.
• Martin Read (mpr22) corrected the text of the bomb rules, and set a (semi-)codified timing rule (after a few shoutings, getting the wording right).
• Lynnette Dray (lmd21) modified a few more things, surprisingly.
• Charlie Baylis (cgb23) took this ruleset in 1999 in order to back out the strange necromancy rules, and made a couple of other patches.
• Matt Laycock, Ed Nokes, Bjoern Holzhauer improved and HTMLised the ruleset, with the help of J Doe, Matthew Wakeling, Dave Hammond and others.
• Ralph Owen (rho21), Ed Nokes and Bjoern Holzhauer altered the rules for Michaelmas 2001, with suggestions from Ed Wallace.
• Modifications made by Tom Garnett (tmg27)
• Clarifications and a few alterations made by Rosemary Warner (rjw76), with suggestions from Ralph Owen.
• Matthew Johnson (mjj29) and Michael Cripps (mac57) updated the rules for Lent 2003.
• Matt Johnson (mjj29) tidied up the HTML, Ric Brackenbury (rab71) added a few pedantic changes, and rewrote the bomb rules with Adam Biltcliffe.
• Adam Biltcliffe (amgb2) rewrote and restructured large parts of the rules in an attempt to make them vaguely comprehensible to new players.
• Martin O'Leary (mewo2) poked at things a bit in Michaelmas 2004