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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5279359" data-attributes="member: 32740">If the game is to be a one-off then it's irrelevant.  If it's going to be an ongoing game to be played - why would the players not be given copies of the rules or obtain copies for themselves?  And also if the players can be reasonably expected to go off and play this game with others where they might be expected to know and abide by rules as written would you not merely be telling them what you're changing and why? 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.  For all I know they themselves had been taught to play it that way and knew no better.  And none of that means I enjoyed the game any less while I was playing it, although I suppose it could have. But the object in playing was not a critical evaluation of the rules - the object was to have fun.  If someone teaching me a game genuinely believes that more fun can be had by changing the rules why should I substantially object.  I might object if I then go to someone elses house to play and they laugh at me for my ignorance of the rules.  But then that's hardly my fault, nor is it really even cause for embarrassment on my part - unless I've brought my own copy of the game rules with me and I simply haven't bothered to read them.</blockquote>

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