You're Playing Cards Wrong!

[Oryan77]

Also, nobody ever roleplays in Monopoly and that ticks me off. I'm always the only one that stays in character with, "You're rent is due!", or "STOP! In the name of the law!", and my favorite "Dang baby, you truly are a beauty queen....here's $50".

 

[RFisher]

Some people believe it was a change in the rules (used by the premier tournament) that resulted in a huge decline in the popularity of marbles.

For what it's worth: Give the original Chainmail miniatures rules to a dozen different groups who had never seen it before & get them to play it. Then bring them all together, & I'll venture you'll have a dozen different interpretations of those rules. That was something inherent in the style of Gygax & co., I think.

In any case: RPGs are (IMHO) meant to be games with few (if any) hard-&-fast rules. So, it's only natural that there would be a wide range of ways to play & some amount of conflict amongst them.

 

[FireLance]

I've seen it more among folks who are playing variations of the same game - there are more poker variants than you can shake a stick at. And the folks who I know that play for fun and tactics look at the variant most played in casinos these days ("Texas hold-em") with a level of disdain rpg players would normally reserve for FATAL.

If all of those games (bridge, hearts, poker) were simply called "cards", I think we'd argue even more than we do about D&D.

D&D has many sub-games, and all of them can be fun -- to different degrees, for different people.

So, perhaps someone should come up with different names for the different sub-games of D&D?

 

[Dross]

ONE GAME TO RULE THEM ALL!!!!!!

 

[Dross]

ONE GAME TO RULE THEM ALL!!!!!!



What?
I can't beleive that I'm the first to think of this.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Hey Glyfair.
Never played Bridge but it is similar to 500 AFAIK. That is: there's bidding, trumps, tricks. Main difference I'm aware of is in 500 you're partner doesn't sit out the hand but plays it with you.

Not familiar with Spades. But it's possible the version of 500 you learnt was not the 500 game I know and love. There's another version sometimes called Cooncan 500 and that may be the one you learned. I suspect so as, as said above, 500 and Bridge are fairly similar.

I must say it, the cards snob in me will make me burst if I dont: Cooncan is crap.
Sorry. It was that or do myself and injury.

Wormwood: I love your location.

 

[Glyfair]

Hey Glyfair.
Never played Bridge but it is similar to 500 AFAIK. That is: there's bidding, trumps, tricks. Main difference I'm aware of is in 500 you're partner doesn't sit out the hand but plays it with you.

Not familiar with Spades. But it's possible the version of 500 you learnt was not the 500 game I know and love. There's another version sometimes called Cooncan 500 and that may be the one you learned. I suspect so as, as said above, 500 and Bridge are fairly similar.

Maybe, but I was taught 500 by someone from Australia. The main difference is in the bidding. As I recall the only thing important about bidding is determining the minimumnumber of tricks and the suit (with the unique "bower" rule). Spades is like that, with a set trump suit.

Bidding in bridge, on the other hand, is very complex. You describe your hand, potentially in much detail. The bidding in bridge is pretty unique, and is more than 50% of the game.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Ahhhhhhhh. I didn't realise there was that much more to the bidding. Must try to find someone to teach me the game.
cheers.

 

[Glyfair]

Ahhhhhhhh. I didn't realise there was that much more to the bidding. Must try to find someone to teach me the game.
cheers.

I will note that in principle it's not too complex. However, it's a method of communication with certain bids having certain "codes." There is where the complexity is.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Ah well that happens in 500 too. Me, I always call the bird. And if possible a 7 call for a bower.