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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5054407" data-attributes="member: 40177">You ever notice how certain games attract house rules more readily than other?  Everyone house rules monopoly, but how many people house rule Risk?  (I know I've house-ruled both, but this isn't really a common practice, is it?) And the same goes with D&D.  I've been buying the moldvay BECMI books, and realized that if I were ever running it, I'd be using some house rules - and then realized that the game sort of encourages this anyways.  And yet other editions of D&D were less kind towards house ruling... 4e, for example, is a little bit more difficult to house rule (not that you can't...)So, I house rule every edition of D&D, which I'm sure isn't that unusual.  But then, I'd never house rule Shadowrun (even though I should, since the game's rules are too insanely complex for me).  And that goes for Earthdawn, the d6 system (hard to houserule a game that's presented as being only half complete, REQUIRING GM rules decisions, though), and WFRP.  I'm pretty sure that were I to play Savage Worlds for any length of time, I'd throw in a few house rules, but not to the extent I went with most editions of D&D.So, am I crazy in thinking that certain games are just more open for house ruling than others?  And why is this?  I don't think, for example, that a heavily house ruled game means that the original system was "broken"... but then, I've been wrong before...</blockquote>

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