nedjer
Adventurer
That's all well and good RC and Umbran, but, getting my ass handed to me over and over again does not do well for my ego.![]()
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Chill dude! Your ass is ninja

That's all well and good RC and Umbran, but, getting my ass handed to me over and over again does not do well for my ego.![]()
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Chill dude! Your ass is ninja![]()
Dude, my ass is three ninjas. sigh. Gotta start exercising again.![]()
Down my way, houseruling has always been very rare. The few times I have seen it done, the results were almost always worse than the original rules.
I played Monopoly for DECADES before I bothered to read the rules and learn that Free Parking is actually FREE; that UNmortgaging property costs you interest; that selling back houses/hotels is not done AT COST; and perhaps a few other niceties. This did not mean that those who taught me to play it were being UNFAIR to Monopoly. It didn't mean that they were being unfair to me or others who were playing.
Sorry I'm late but I find the comparisons with Monopoly fascinating. On boardgamegeek, a website devote to all forms of boardgaming, Monopoly is generally reviled not so much for its rules (although its rules are pretty annoying) but because of what it does to people whose only experience with boardgames is a game like Monopoly.
Yeah, the BGG'ers definitely need to get their panties untwisted about Monopoly. Their complaints about Monopoly (which is presumably still one of the best selling board games of all time) come off like the people who complain that Titanic can't possibly be a good movie because it made so much money and won so many awards.
Is it fair to your friends -- since you are introducing them to the game -- to house rule parts of the rules as written?